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Medical & healthcare

Device helps limited-mobility children to use touchscreens

Method can diagnose malaria from a single blood drop

Finance and furnaces

Technology could enable new chemical detection devices

Wireless winners

Vital-signs monitor could be produced for lower costs

Team makes use of stretchable electronics for heart catheter

Centre could bring about new age of 'precision medicine'

Injectable sponge could find use in regenerative medicine

Auto-injector could ease stress for fertility treatment patients

Microchip device detects small populations of cancerous cells

Hybrid nanomaterial converts light and heat into electricity