Medical Engineering

The development of medical equipment, products and technical procedures is characterized by high research and development costs in a variety of fields related to the study of human medicine.

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Researchers develop robotic sensory cilia

… that monitor internal biomarkers to detect and assess airway diseases. Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is leading a team of researchers that has developed a system of…

Plastic device aids robot-assisted heart surgery

Surgical field expansion plate allows surgeons more independence. Robot-assisted heart surgery usually requires an assistant at the operating table to help the surgeon insert the robot arm through a small…

5G in the OR: Advances in Technology Unlock Opportunities for Hospitals

Safe, efficient healthcare… How can surgery be made more cost-effective, safer and more efficient in the future? An interdisciplinary French-German team has developed high-tech hybrid operating rooms that harness the…

Targeted Printing

Single-cell technology… Bright prospects for personalized medicine: Experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM harness their know-how in microfluidics and single-cell technologies to print organ structures. They…

How To Replace PFAS

Hardly any other chemical substance can compete with PFAS, due to their unique properties. That explains why it is so hard to find a replacement for these toxic “forever chemicals”,…

Robot-assisted laser procedure enables gentle craniotomy while patients are awake

To test complex brain functions during neurosurgical procedures, surgeons must operate on awake, locally anesthetized patients. This allows surgeons to interact with them and test how their intervention affects brain…

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