Archives for February 2009
Laser for stitching wounds
Professor Abraham Katzir and his colleagues from the Physics Department at the Tel Aviv University in Israel have developed a laser which could one day replace surgical stitches. The machine is still in its early stages of development, but looks quite promising. You will learn more by watching the video from Reuters below. The video […]
Detecting disease through sound
Sounds are very important in medicine. We don’t wear those stethoscopes just for show. OK some of us do. But, can a machine detect disease just by analyzing coughing sounds? Well, people from a Belgian company called BioRICS think it can. They just recently obtained a patent for their recognition and localization of pathological animal […]
