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Medical Technology

What's new in medical technology related to living forever? Although it will be the underlying biotechnology that cures ageing, we'll need plenty of new technology along the way to apply new treatments and to keep us healthy.

Click the links below for news and information on specific subjects as as big data (using AI to diagnose disease), nanobots (precision guided drug delivery) and robotic surgery (not as exciting as it sounds... yet).

Read more about: 3D Printing in Healthcare, AI in Healthcare, Assistive Technology, Digital Health, Digital Modeling, Laboratory Automation, Nanotechnology in Healthcare, Precision Medicine, Robotic Surgery, Synthetic Biology.

Medical Technology News

From quantum bits to drug hits: A new way to target KRAS

From quantum bits to drug hits: A new way to target KRAS

Live Forever Club - 17-Dec-2025

A hybrid quantum–AI system designed and validated new KRAS inhibitors in early lab tests

From code to cures: Chai Discovery’s big AI bet

From code to cures: Chai Discovery’s big AI bet

TechCrunch - 15-Dec-2025

OpenAI-backed Chai raises $130M to accelerate drug and antibody design with AI

A grain-sized robot that can sense, think, and swim

A grain-sized robot that can sense, think, and swim

Futurism - 13-Dec-2025

Tiny autonomous machines could one day navigate the body to deliver treatments and repair tissue

Soft robot tackles surgery inside a beating heart

Soft robot tackles surgery inside a beating heart

Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) - 09-Dec-2025

A soft, low-cost robot performs precise beating-heart procedures in minutes

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Medical Technology Resources

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New Discovery: This Molecule Could Beat Rapamycin in Longevity

Optispan podcast episode - Dr. Ben Blue explores the cutting edge of longevity research

The Age of Diagnosis

Amazon

How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker, written by Suzanne O'Sullivan

Hacking Humanity

Amazon

How technology can save your health and your life written by Lara Lewington

ARDD 2026 - 13th Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting

01-Aug-2026

Event about latest progress in the molecular, cellular and organismal basis of aging organised by Uni of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark)

The Clinical Application of Interventional Medicine

Amazon

Book about endocrinology written by Mark Gordon

Replaceable You

Amazon

A rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy written by Mary Roach

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Medical Technology Blog Posts

Neko Health body scan experience
09-May-2025

Neko Health body scan experience

I visited Neko Health’s new London clinic – what was it like?

Meet the Omes
24-Jan-2024

Meet the Omes

The biology of ageing looks at way more than just the genome and microbiome - here's 20 to start with!

Oxford Immune Algorithmics developing AI-driven precision medicine for all – site visit report
26-Oct-2023

Oxford Immune Algorithmics developing AI-driven precision medicine for all – site visit report

Algocyte platform uses algorithmic inverse problem solving to aid clinicians in their diagnosis

New cancer therapies in 2022 achieving unprecedented remissions - reviewing a year of hope
27-Jan-2023

New cancer therapies in 2022 achieving unprecedented remissions - reviewing a year of hope

Including gene editing, immunotherapy, modified viruses, vaccines, personalised medicine, and nanotechnology

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