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Aymara — indigenous people of South America — use their weaving skills to create occluder devices invented by a team of pediatric cardiologists from La Paz, Bolivia. The devices are used for the treatment of large congenital heart defects in children. Each device is woven of a single nitinol strand without connections, which makes it more durable. Structural memory of nitinol allows the device to regain its shape after collapsing inside the catheter that delivers it to the defect site.
Based on findings from a recent study in Nature Medicine, a 58-year-old man with retinitis pigmentosa, which causes death of light-gathering cells in the retina, is able to see and...
In a report published in Science Robotics, researchers claim to have created microrobots that can successfully traverse the blood-brain barrier in mice. The team from Harbin Institute of Technology and...
When Roger was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder, he decided to participate in a clinical trial. Timothy Miller, MD, PhD, ALS Center Director at Washington...
At their Ignite digital conference on March 2, 2021, Microsoft unveiled a technology meant to enable device- and location-agnostic "shared experiences" via mixed reality applications. Learn more about the Ignite...
