3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (275+ words) The Engineer AI wearable targets Parkinson's freezing of gait Medtech founder Jonathan Fisher is accelerating development of an AI-powered wearable for Parkinson's, backed by "120, 000 of Cambridge funding. Motivated by his father's experience with Parkinson's disease, Fisher set out to tackle…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (454+ words) Cancer drug therapies packaged in a 3 D-printed hydrogel-based drug delivery system could deliver medication directly to tumours while reducing many of the side effects endured by cancer patients. This is the claim of researchers at the University of Mississippi (Ole…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (219+ words) Manchester University spin-out Spotlight Pathology has raised "1. 4m to accelerate commercial roll out of its AI-powered lymphoma diagnostic device for blood cancer detection. The funding round was co-led by Liverpool City Region Seed Fund and UKI2 S with continued support from existing…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (159+ words) Researchers at Edinburgh University have developed a method to convert waste plastic into a compound used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. The team has demonstrated a process that transforms plastic waste into levodopa (L-DOPA), a widely used drug for…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (153+ words) Lived experience leads to image analysis software that uses machine learning to identify cancer and leukaemia cells. Project: AI-driven cancer diagnosis: testing image analysis software. Niamh Price, Lucy Turner and Megan Joyce from Freman College For over a decade, health…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (183+ words) Artificial intelligence could support earlier detection of serious heart valve disease by analysing heart sounds recorded with digital stethoscopes, according to a study led by Cambridge University. Using heart sound data from 1, 767 participants across five NHS Trusts, the system was…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (190+ words) Engineers behind a suite of pioneering neural interface technologies that have restored lost human function have been announced as the winners of the 2026 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. " Nine engineers behind pioneering advances in neural interface technologies ranging from cochlear…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (264+ words) The Engineer - Home Autonomous AI screens for cognitive impairment from clinical notes Researchers in the US have developed a fully autonomous AI system capable of screening for cognitive impairment using routine clinical documentation. Developed by a team at Mass General…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago  (434+ words) Researchers at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and Glasgow University are developing a smart-textile bra designed to provide extra breast cancer monitoring for women with intellectual disabilities. A team of scientists and designers are developing an electronic textile which would fit…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (465+ words) Researchers have demonstrated the potential of AI to help identify women at higher risk of developing interval breast cancers, which are diagnosed in the period between routine screening mammograms. The study is detailed in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological…...