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A Ballad to Balad: A Look into Medical Marvels in the Military
Professor Eugenio Culurciello and a graduate student, Zhengming Fu, are pictured with one of the biosensor chips used in their lab to detect brainwaves and transmit signals to neural prostheses Behind...
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Modeling for Our Future: Computer-Generated Models of Infectious Disease Spread
While the models can be useful tools to reference the virulence and spread pattern of diseases, government agencies should also take precautionary steps no matter how severe or transient the disease...
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Sorting Out Fact from Fiction
Cell phone radiation has been debunked as a cause of brain tumors. Whether it be AIDS, cancer, the War on Terror, or global warming, paranoia seems to be everywhere in our society. As technology...
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Advances in Prosthetic Limbs
Progress in the field of prosthetics has led to the development of more functional limbs as well as a new set of scientific and engineering challenges. In Peter Pan, Captain Hook uses a hook as an...
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Interview with Dr. Stephen Oesterle
Stephen N. Oesterle, M.D., joined Medtronic in 2002 as its Senior Vice President for Medicine and Technology, overseeing the company’s scientific research, formation of technological strategies and...
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The Future of Surgery
Advances in robot surgery have been curbed by their increasing cost. When the FDA first approved robot-assisted surgery, FDA commissioner Jane E. Henney exclaimed, “This system is the first step in the...
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Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology
Commercial surrogacy in India alone is worth approximately $500 million a year. In January 2009, news of octuplets born to Nadya Suleman, dubbed “Octomom,” led to fierce debate about the role of...
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Synthetic Red Blood Cells: A Macro Leap in Microbiological Medicine
Synthetic red blood cells are functionally similar to their natural counterparts and can also be used for targeted drug delivery, medical imaging, and cellular modeling. As the frontier of medical...
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Computers and the Future of Healing
Advances in the development of biological computers have given scientists and doctors the ability to read molecular signals, focus on specific cells for treatment, and direct targeted treatment to the...
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