A research project is looking at the opportunities offered by 3D printing in dentistry. There is great potential in the use of innovative materials...

An international research team has shown that optogenetic gene therapy can help restore some vision in a patient blinded by hereditary retinitis pi...

Scientists at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to collect image data of brain structures of a single su...

Technical coatings, on which water rolls off in large droplets so that the surfaces can clean themselves, have their model in nature. The best-know...

Nowadays, minimally invasive procedures for the treatment of vascular diseases in the brain offer many advantages over open vascular surgery. In ad...

The mechanical properties of cells can reveal which diseases a patient is suffering from. Researchers at the Max Planck Center for Physics and Medi...

If sensory signals from prostheses are transmitted to the nervous system, this helps leg amputees to perceive their prosthesis as part of their bod...

A pathological or injury-related narrowing of the windpipe or the main bronchi can end badly. Patients do not get enough air, are in danger of suff...

There is a reason for the impressive size of magnetic resonance imaging scanners: the donut-shaped tube contains large magnets that generate a very...