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Medical & healthcare

Professor Garry Duffy and Dr Rachel Beatty show the soft robotic implant developed by University of Galway and MIT

Implantable device delivers drugs and overcomes rejection by the body

Electric eels inspire new Oxford ‘droplet battery’

Associate Professor Lee Seok Woo, from NTU’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) holding up the flexible battery that is as thin as a human cornea

NTU Singapore team develops flexible battery for smart contact lenses

Ann, a research participant in a study of speech neuroprostheses led by UCSF's Edward Chang, is connected to computers that translate her brain signals into the speech and facial movements of an avatar. At left is UCSF clinical research coordinator Max Dougherty

Digital avatar relays decoded brain signals to give voice to paralysed woman

Dyed DNA vaccine coated on a microneedle array by efficient electrospray deposition

Spray technique for bioactive materials promises injection-free vaccinations

BRAINSTORM project will develop nano-magnets for neuromodulation

Innovative pressure sensor promises to transform laparoscopic surgery

Machine learning could boost antimicrobial resistance on farms

Lancaster heads up £7m QMol materials project

Nerve cells in the cortex of the brain generated from patients' stem cells - the type of image the computer model used

Machine learning predicts subtypes of Parkinson’s disease

Astronaut Stephen Bowen works with the BioFabrication Facility aboard the ISS

ISS dust found to be highly contaminated with chemicals

AI in healthcare receives £13m boost from government