A potentially life-saving monitoring system for hospital patients on general wards is one step nearer to reality thanks to Protolabs’ European Cool Idea Award.
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Harvard student has developed an autonomous wheelchair that eliminates the need for porters, freeing them to be re-deployed to more useful tasks.
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Harvard and the University of Zurich partner to create a next-generation heart valve that accurately functions upon implantation and regenerates into long-lasting heart-like tissue
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Designed by Columbia Engineers, RoSE is first device to measure 3D stiffness of human torso, could lead to new treatments for children with spine deformities such as idiopathic scoliosis and kyphosis
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