Blood-cleaning device could transform care for deadly liver failure
The Guardian - 21-Dec-2025NHS trials a liver “dialysis” machine that may reduce the need for transplants
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
Live Forever Club - 17-Dec-2025A hybrid quantum–AI system designed and validated new KRAS inhibitors in early lab tests
BD, Babson expand fingertip blood testing beyond retail
FierceBiotech - 17-Dec-2025FDA-cleared system delivers lipid and blood count tests from a simple fingerstick
How PCSK9 inhibitors are redefining cholesterol control
Dr. Brad Stanfield - 16-Dec-2025Genetic insights and new drugs cut LDL sharply and prevent heart attacks before they start
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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
How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker, written by Suzanne O'Sullivan
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)
Replaceable You
A rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy written by Mary Roach
09-May-2025
Neko Health body scan experience
I visited Neko Health’s new London clinic – what was it like?
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!
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
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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