“Google” is developing contact lenses with a sensor that will measure blood sugar. This is good news for all diabetics, who have to measure it daily and in a painful way. The information collected with the contacts will be able to be transmitted wirelessly through a small antenna. The data will be received by a […]
It is striking that in our technological modernity we are looking forward to travelling to Mars, and yet we have failed as a civilization to cure diseases that affect the lives of many people on the planet. A good piece of news has come from Google. The software giant grew so much last year that […]
Nanomedicine has set another difficult task for itself – to relieve diabetics from the constant use of needles. Instead, they will take the necessary insulin in pill form. At present, patients can receive the substance only as an injection. The reason – it is difficult to absorb in the intestines when taken orally. A team […]
The American scientist James Baker of the University of Michigan has made a huge step in this direction. Thanks to his longstanding research he has developed nanoparticles that are “taught” to target drugs directly to cancer cells. They pass through the different barriers, such as the walls of blood vessels. Once they find diseased cells, […]
From 2015 doctors will monitor the condition of pregnant Bulgarian women via Smartphones It will no longer be necessary to go on foot to the doctor’s office for advice. Instead, every pregnant woman will have the privilege to monitor the heartbeat of the child through a special widget and it will transmit the received data […]