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Medical & healthcare

Sir Edmund Hillary (left) and Tenzing Norgay (Credit: Tenzing Norgay, via Wikimedia Commons)

June 1953: Oxygen breathing kit for climbers on Mount Everest

Sandcastles inspire new 3D printing method

Faster, cheaper method for printing human skin "could establish a new era"

Battery-free pacemaker can be implanted into heart

Technology for smoke-free surgery helps Alesi Surgical raise €6m

Non-invasive brain stimulation shows potential to treat Parkinson’s

Scanner goes skin deep to reveal the secrets of psoriasis

Technology promises biometric gait recognition for battery-free wearables

Embedded sensor provides real time respiratory rate

Disposable breath sensor has potential for diagnosis and air monitoring

Robot is star turn of new medical centre in Wales

Graphene sensor could speed hepatitis diagnosis