Biomedical technology

Dozing at the wheel? Not with these fatigue-detecting earbuds

Everyone gets sleepy at work from time to time, especially after a big lunch. But for people whose jobs involve driving or working with heavy machinery, drowsiness can be extremely dangerous—if not outright deadly.

Biomedical technology

New system uses microfluidic technology for sperm selection

A City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) research team led by Professor Michael Yang Mengsu, Senior Vice-President (Innovation and Enterprise), and Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences, collaborated with mainland ...

Radiology & Imaging

New PET/MRI probe promises early discovery of covert diseases

A research team from IOCB Prague, working in collaboration with the University of Tübingen, Germany, and the Faculty of Science, Charles University, has developed a new type of contrast agent that can be used in both magnetic ...

Biomedical technology

Wound healing checked in real time with electronic suture

A research team has successfully developed an electronic suture that can monitor changes in inflammation levels around wounds in real time. The electronic suture is expected to contribute significantly to wound care and personalized ...

Biomedical technology

Early disease detection in body fluids using photonic biosensors

Standard medical procedures are often time-consuming and generally do not take into account the individual characteristics of patients. This can have a negative impact on the success of treatment and impair quality of life.

Addiction

EVape helps improve consumer safety in the e-cigarette segment

Electronic cigarettes, or vapes, are commonly viewed as less harmful to people's health than tobacco cigarettes. And yet, they are not without health drawbacks. For many ingredients, it is unknown how they will behave when ...

Health informatics

ChatGPT still not very good at diagnosing human ailments

A team of medical researchers at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry has found that despite being trained on terabytes of data, the LLM ChatGPT is still not good at diagnosing human ailments. In ...

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