Tag: University of Twente

THE WORLD’S SMALLEST AND MOST ACCURATE 3D-PRINTED BIOPSY ROBOT

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The Stormram 4, as the robot is named, is made from 3D-printed plastic and is driven by air pressure. The advantage of plastic is that the robot can be used in an MRI scanner. Carrying out a biopsy (removing a piece of tissue) during a breast cancer scan in an MRI significantly increases accuracy. The Read more about THE WORLD’S SMALLEST AND MOST ACCURATE 3D-PRINTED BIOPSY ROBOT[…]

A NEW LAB-ON-A-CHIP DETECTS EFFECTS OF POISON

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Substances foreign to the human body – toxic substances, or medication, for example – can have such a short lifetime that the effect is hard to examine. Sometimes the damage already has been done. For example: what happens if PAH’s, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons interact with hemoglobin in blood? PAH’s are released at asphalt road works Read more about A NEW LAB-ON-A-CHIP DETECTS EFFECTS OF POISON[…]