Medical Devices

Academic pioneers world’s first middle ear transplant using 3D-printed bones

3D-printing technology is used to print these bones, and then used in the surgery to reconstruct the ossicles

An integrated catheter offers real-time monitoring of radio-frequency ablation used to treat cardiac arrhythmias

Nanobots could help diagnose and treat cancer

Synthetic cell-like capsules protect biomolecular logic gates while allowing them to operate faster

Scientists have created a mobile skin bioprinting system that allows bi-layered skin to be printed directly into a wound

Modelling the parameters required for focused ultrasound to release drugs from liposomes may remove the need for real-time thermometry

Mushroom-like gold nanowires on soft, flexible substrates could enable a new generation of wearable or implantable stretchable electronic devices

Multiphoton laser direct writing creates smallest ever polydimethylsiloxane light guides without the need for a photoinitiator

An implantable device that delivers therapeutic protein into the brain reduces seizures by 93% in epileptic rats