by Bruce Brown | July 29, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Brain mapping just made a huge leap forward. A group of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and from six other research centers have more than doubled the known number of distinct areas on the outer layer of the human brain, also known as the cortex or...
by Bruce Brown | July 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The hearables market is poised for rapid expansion. Hearable devices are more than just smart headphones or earbuds for enhanced entertainment or smartphone calls. The span of additional applications ranges from noise cancellation and programmable frequency...
by Bruce Brown | July 27, 2016 | General News, Medical
When a mammal’s central nervous system nerves are cut or destroyed, they typically don’t regrow. That conventional understanding may be challenged by a study of regrowth of retinal ganglion cell axons in mice. The potential long-term ramifications of nerve...
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by Bruce Brown | July 26, 2016 | General News, Health
Typical story: you hold off getting pregnant until the “time is right.” And then it doesn’t happen. Just because we decide as couples we’re ready to conceive, doesn’t mean the pregnancy fairy is going to swoop down at your convenience....
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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...
