10 “miracle” medical technologies to watch
Each of these modern medical marvels would have been considered pure magic just a hundred years ago.
Each of these modern medical marvels would have been considered pure magic just a hundred years ago.
China has developed what it claims to be the world's largest quadrupedal robot for military logistics and reconnaissance operations.
The Australian company Synchron claims primacy: a brain implant allows this and other functions to a paralyzed patient.
Aducanumab could represent a revolution for all Alzheimer's patients, but for now it represents only an element of controversy
Millions of people with presbyopia can turn: one drop per eye, 15 minutes of waiting and this eye drop restores sight for 6-10 hours.
A nanochip can turn skin tissue into blood vessels to repair wounds. It could be useful for many therapies.
Surprising 'supramolecular' gel repairs spinal cord damage in mouse tests. The Northwestern team will ask the FDA to move to human testing as early as next year.
Because the newly approved weight loss drug in the US works, but it won't.
Psilocybin, a substance contained in the famous "hallucinogenic mushrooms", is increasingly explored as a therapeutic substance. The most popular approach seems to be that of a slow-release patch.
It's called Molnupiravir and for days we've been talking about nothing other than this antiviral that can help us deal a perhaps decisive blow to Covid. But how does it work?
Even coffee created in the laboratory? Cellular agriculture may have marked another point, and this time a big one.
Gene therapies will transform medicine, save millions of lives and cure dozens of diseases, even rare ones. But they will cost too much. How to do?
A new helmet that generates a non-invasive oscillating magnetic field was able to reduce tumor mass by 31% in a brain cancer patient with glioblastoma.
The first totally artificial heart transplant is a success: it imitates human behavior, complete with liquid pumped inside.
Artificial intelligence to avoid collisions and make passengers and goods coexist: the trolley of the future promises a lot, and warms up the engines.
An Israeli company patents an engineered sugar that can replace traditional sugar and all the sweeteners that have emerged in recent years.
Inventions that were unsuccessful, or premature, or boasted. They were all important: but take a look at the flops they encountered!
Plants activate short memory mechanisms despite having no brain. Remembering the days of drought they take countermeasures to save water.
Medicago and GSK have announced the start of phase 3 trials for their plant-based Covid vaccine.
An extraordinary result of experimental therapies on mice shows how it is possible to reduce high cholesterol by 57% with a single injection. If it works on humans it will be a revolution.
“For the planet, the electric car is better than the petrol car”. It's true? Let's investigate what seems obvious. Maybe there is more.