Can an app change your personality?
Research has shown that daily use of a smartphone app can lead to desired personality changes within three months.
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Virtual reality helps to treat fear of heights
Researchers have developed a VR app to reduce fear of heights. Now, they have conducted a clinical trial to study its efficacy.
3D-printed bioresorbable airway stent
Researchers are using 3D printing to produce a new type of bioresorbable airway stent. This could greatly simplify the future treatment of upper airway obstruction.
Researchers compute turbulence with AI
The project relies on fusing reinforcement learning algorithms with turbulent flow simulations on the CSCS supercomputer "Piz Daint".
“Medical 3D printing is a game changer”
Interview with Andreas Giannopoulos, MD and PhD, a Deputy Attending Physician in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University Hospital Zurich.
High-tech clothing: Wearable health
Thanks to a variety of smart technologies, high-tech clothing today is capable of analyzing body functions or actively optimizing the microclimate.
AI accelerates blood flow MRI
Researchers have presented a method that could greatly accelerate dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of blood flow.
An universal carrier ink for 3D printing
Researchers have produced a gel from cellulose fibres and biodegradable nanoparticles that liquifies when pressed through the nozzle of a 3D printer, but then quickly returns to its original shape.
AI predicts circulatory failure in ICU
Researchers have developed a method for predicting circulatory failure in patients in intensive care units – enabling clinicians to intervene at an early stage.
Producing human tissue in space
The University of Zurich has sent adult human stem cells to the International Space Station to explore the production of human tissue in weightlessness.
Artificial neurons developed to cure chronic diseases
For the first time researchers successfully reproduced the electrical properties of biological neurons onto semiconductor chips.
AI improves biomedical imaging
Researchers use artificial intelligence to improve quality of images recorded by a relatively new biomedical imaging method.
Bionic prosthesis improves amputees’ health
Thanks to bionic prosthesis that features sensors that connect to residual nerves in the thigh, two volunteers are the first above-knee amputees in the world to feel their prosthetic foot and knee in real time.
Microrobot delivers stem cells to the brain
Researchers have developed a new microrobot that can precisely deliver therapeutic cells to very specific parts of the brain.
Digital transformation: From sick care to proactive health care
“The digital transformation will make healthcare even more human. It will enable us to provide preventive and personalized healthcare,” says Prof. Dr. Koen Kas, Professor of Oncology at Ghent University, Belgium.