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Medical & healthcare

A mock-up of what the Tasty Spoon™ could look like

‘Tasty Spoon’ device aims to boost food flavours for people with dementia

Conventional treatments for bone defects often involve bone grafts combined with serum or bioadhesives to fill the defect

Bioresorbable material specialists raise £3.4m

Video processing and AI track progression of Parkinson’s disease

Cover art for journal article

Tractor beam breakthrough could reduce biopsy trauma

Comment: Why wearable robots need machine vision

Brain circuits selectively activated with nano-MIND

Alzheimer’s diagnostics gets Cambridge AI boost

spinalNET sensor records electrical activity of spinal neurons

New AI method aids heart MRI scans

Older people are more vulnerable and likely to fall, especially if they have a long-term health condition

Every day tech aids fast reaction to falls among elderly

Michigan Turkey Producers employee, Blanca Chaidez, wears Taza Aya’s Worker Wearable Protection equipment as she prepares for her work shift

Hard hat mounted air curtain adds layer of protection

The plaster developed by NTU Singapore researchers comprises microlaser sensors embedded in liquid crystal droplets. The sensors are customised to pick up three different types of biomarkers (lactate, glucose, urea). A different coloured liquid crystal dot on the plaster distinguishes each biomarker

Light-based sensor painlessly monitors biomarkers