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by Bruce Brown | July 25, 2016 | General News, Medical
It’s still early days for 3D printing in health applications but advances are coming fast. We’ve written about 3D printed prosthetics for hands and arms, orthotics, teeth, and cranial bones for a child. A 68-year-old man from Indiana now has a lower...
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by Bruce Brown | July 22, 2016 | General News, Medical
When you broke an arm or leg back in the day, you’d end up with a bulky plaster cast. If nothing else, you could get your friends or kids to sign it or draw cartoons on it. Until the cast was removed, however, neither you nor your medical professional could see...
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by Alfred Poor | May 20, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Consider hair. It keeps our heads warm (though this is less effective for some of us who are follicly-challenged). It can reduce friction between surfaces. But hairs do much more than that. They keep us from falling over, due to the tiny cilia in the inner ear that...
by Alfred Poor | April 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Grace Kabelenga was born in 2008 in Zambia with what was described as severe craniofacial deformities, but that is an understatement. The bones in the middle of her face were missing, as well as large portions of her skull and the bones that separate her brain from...
by Alfred Poor | April 11, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable sensors are able to provide an increasingly detailed measure of what is going on in a patient’s body from minute to minute. In addition to vital signs, all sorts of biometric measures including chemical biomarkers can be sensed and recorded. This...
