Robot performs first laparoscopic surgery without human help
A robot has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without the guiding hand of a human—a significant step toward fully automated surgery on humans. Designed by...
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Through DS-I Africa, NIH is Fostering a New Health Data...
The NIH recently invested over $74 million over five years to support 19 DS-I Africa awards that will conduct research and training activities across the continent. More Source link
UIC receives grant to prepare CPS educators to teach next...
The University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering and College of Education have received a federal grant to continue a summer biomedical engineering program that has trained 27 Chicago Public Schools science...
This Bizarre Looking Helmet Can Create Better Brain Scans
A newly designed wearable magnetic metamaterial, developed by NIBIB-funded researchers, could help make MRI scans crisper, faster, and cheaper. More Source link
Reporting COVID-19 Self-Test Results: The Next Frontier
This article describes self-test reporting mechanisms used in the CDC-NIH Say Yes! COVID Test program. The pilot demonstrates that it is possible to establish an efficient and scalable electronic pathway for...
Insider Q&A: NIH official on testing for infectiousness
This Associated Press interview with NIBIB Director Dr. Bruce Tromberg delves into COVID-19 infectiousness and COVID-19 antigen tests. More Source link
NIH RADx Tech to tackle development of at-home COVID-19 tests...
The National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx®) Tech program is working to identify necessary elements of at-home COVID-19 diagnostic test kits that may be used independently by...
RADx initiative issues contracts for new COVID-19 tests to fill...
RADx Tech program has issued contracts to help meet the ongoing needs and challenges of COVID-19 diagnostic testing. More Source link
Transparent ultrasound chip improves cell stimulation and imaging
Ultrasound scans, best known for monitoring pregnancies or imaging organs, can also be used to stimulate cells and direct cell function. A team of Penn State researchers has developed an easier,...
Organoids reveal the tipping point when kidney damage turns irreversible
In a new study published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers demonstrated that human kidney organoids are useful models to identify the point of permanent and reversible kidney cell damage and...
