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Engineering Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute create smart sensors which can wirelessly transmit data from Orthopaedic surgery site, but we can’t quite see the applications they see.

Fiendishly clever scientists from San Diego have described a microrocket, which would exploit low pH conditions to elicit drive from a chemical reaction. Suggested applications on a postcard please.

MIT Spin-out company MicroCHIPS has developed an implantable drug delivery device, which is currently targeting delivery of teriparatide in post menopausal osteoporotic women.

New research may pave the way for all-metal hip prostheses to rise phoenix-like from the ashes.

Researchers have developed a new system for delivering drugs to the back of the eye that could offer more effective treatment while sparing patients the excruciating routine of having drugs injected into their eyes by syringe every six to eight weeks.

Scientists at Berkeley have decoded the imagined speech of a patient in what could be a breakthrough in understanding and utilisation of brainwaves in speech impaired patients.

Obvious innit? Researchers have proposed a technological solution which could provide energy for implantable devices such as pacemakers from the motion of the heart itself.

In the ultimate embodiment of biomimetics, Singapore researchers have taken inspiration from a seafood dinner to develop a robot which can isolate and excise the tiniest lesions endoscopically.