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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, Big Data, Digital Health, Digital Modeling, Laboratory Automation, Nanobots, Personalised Medicine, Precision Medicine, Robotic Surgery, Synthetic Biology.
Resources
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Life Biosciences
Drug development company promoting longevity and finding treatments for age-related diseases
Medtronic
Global healthcare solutions company improving healthcare through medical technology development.
TINAVI Medical Technologies
Company developing and production orthopedic surgery navigation and positioning robots
Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries
Company developing, producing and marketing affordable, high quality generic drugs and specialty pharmaceuticals
OPKO Health
Company focused on development of novel and proprietary technologies for pharmaceuticals and diagnostics
Gentag
Gentag is to help disposable wireless sensor technologies ubiquitous, affordable and accessible to everyone worldwide
Medical Technology Blog Posts
04-Feb-2021
25-Jan-2021
Types of coronavirus tests, and how accurate are they?
Do you know the difference between sensitivity and specificity?
03-Jan-2017
Review of longevity technology in Passengers (movie)
Has a clever Autodoc chamber to diagnosis treat disease - would be surprising if it couldn't reverse ageing too by then
04-Aug-2015
Warts precision medicine got to do with it?
Skin growth as an example of where early diagnosis could save money, and put patients' minds at rest
21-Jul-2015
Virtual Bodies are Accelerating Research and Diagnostics
A quick summary of projects trying to recreate cells, tissues and organs in silico
Recent News
Injection-replacement remedy, using a robotic pill to deliver insulin in diabetics
Independent - 30-Sep-2022
RoboCap’s mucus-clearing and churning movements help it deliver the drug directly to the gut
Read more...Targeted drug delivery with microbots made of algae cells to treat acute bacterial pneumonia
UC San Diego School of Medicine - 22-Sep-2022
Nanoparticles-modified microbots coated with neutrophil cell membranes-reduce inflammation in lungs
Read more...$100M fund - Life Extension Ventures might back startups working on longevity
TechCrunch - 18-Sep-2022
Founders are excited to find the impact when software intersects science
Read more...Systemic Bio develops custom-made organ models from human cells
3D Printing Industry - 09-Sep-2022
New firm launched by 3D Systems to advance drug discovery and testing process
Read more...Nocturnal sleep patterns predict long-term health and risk of death
Live Forever Club - 08-Sep-2022
High sleep fragmentation was identified as an independent biomarker of future health
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