A team of MIT engineers has designed a flexible drug-delivery patch that could help the heart heal after a heart attack.

Cancer can be persistent and difficult to treat effectively, but cancer researchers can be just as persistent and difficult. João Conde and Natalie Artzi of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ...

MIT engineers have developed a flexible drug-delivery patch that can be placed on the heart after a heart attack to help ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have been developing micro-and nanotechnological tools to develop functional substitutes for damaged heart tissues. The work, led by Dr Tal Dvir and his graduate ...

From silver nanofibers to smart, sensory-packed dressings, the next generation of wound-healing technology is blurring the ...

Medical researchers and chemical engineers at Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University have developed a new wearable patch that can provide continuous monitoring of tumors under the skin. The patch, ...

A new hydrogel containing lanthanide-based nanoparticles releases proteins when hit with near-infrared light (J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: 10.1021/ja308876j). The nanoparticle-studded gel could enable ...

Researchers developed a self-healing hydrogel that restored neural function and improved symptoms in rats with Parkinson's-like disease. (Nanowerk News) Parkinson’s disease is a progressive brain ...