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by Alfred Poor | December 10, 2015 | General News, Medical
Medical imaging is a modern miracle; doctors are able to peer inside the human body and detect injuries or abnormal growth such as cancer tumors. This digital data can be presented as two-dimensional images: slices through the body at regular intervals. One problem is...
by Alfred Poor | November 18, 2015 | General News, Medical
Minimally invasive surgical procedures have made it possible for doctors to access and repair parts of the body that were unreachable under older conditions. Still, the tools for these operations continue to evolve and improve to solve additional problems. For...
by Alfred Poor | October 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Surgery is not an exact science. Doctors can study anatomy all they want, but as a practical matter, every patient is a little different. And when you’re trying to remove a cancer tumor, there’s no textbook that can show you precisely what you’re...
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by Alfred Poor | February 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Medical
The photo may look like a pair of cooling towers for a nuclear power plant, but they’re not. What you see is a scanning microscope image of two tiny devices, each about one fifth the width of a human hair. Each one is actually a micromotor, and the video shows...
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by Alfred Poor | November 28, 2014 | Medical
How many times have you looked at something on your skin — or on someone close to you — and thought “Maybe I should get that looked at.” Now there’s an app for that. First Derm is a smartphone app that lets you take a photo of your skin...
