Category: BMC Biomedical Engineering

  • Introducing BMC Biomedical Engineering’s Collection: Point-of-care diagnostics

    Introducing BMC Biomedical Engineering’s Collection: Point-of-care diagnostics

    © CIPhotos / Getty Images / iStock Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics, defined as diagnostics at or near the site of patient care, has recently gained increased popularity due to its quicker turnaround and comparable accuracy to standard laboratory testing. It enables fast clinical decision-making, leading to improved clinical outcome and patient service. It can also be…

  • Introducing BMC Biomedical Engineering’s Collection: Microfluidic technologies for biomedical applications

    Introducing BMC Biomedical Engineering’s Collection: Microfluidic technologies for biomedical applications

    © [M] luchschenF / Stock.adobe.com Microfluidic devices allow fluids to be manipulated on a scale ranging between one micrometre and one millimetre. The application of microfluidics in the biomedical field covers many different aspects, including sensing, cell manipulation and micropumping. These devices also serve as tissue/organ culture platforms. The concept of organ-on-a-chip allows such complex…

  • Introducing BMC Biomedical Engineering’s Collection: Medical wearable technologies

    Introducing BMC Biomedical Engineering’s Collection: Medical wearable technologies

    © Carlo / stock.adobe.com Medical wearable technologies are becoming increasingly widespread as the importance of personalized medicine and accurate monitoring is recognized. The last few years have seen unprecedented improvements in the accuracy of wearable devices. This in turn has led to increasing applications in the medical field as more and more equipment is designed…

  • Highlights of the BMC Series – June 2023

    Highlights of the BMC Series – June 2023

    © InsideCreativeHouse / stock.adobe.com BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies – Effects of laughter yoga on health-related quality of life in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: a randomized clinical trial Laughter yoga is a type of complementary therapy which promotes deliberate laughter in combination with yoga breathing practices and yoga stretching poses. Intentional laughter can provide benefits…

  • Spotlight on…. high-resolution biology

    Spotlight on…. high-resolution biology

    Gómez, H.F., Hodel, L., Michos, O. et al. Morphological study of embryonic Chd8+/− mouse brains using light-sheet microscopy. BMC Res Notes 14, 23 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05436-0 Read the full focus issue here! Werner Kühlbrandt coined the phrase ‘resolution revolution’ in 2014 highlighting the breakthrough in electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) that allows almost atomic-resolution molecular imaging. Similar advances…

  • Highlights of the BMC series: September 2019

    Highlights of the BMC series: September 2019

    BMC Surgery – Novel biodegradable magnesium alloy clips compared with titanium clips for hepatectomy in a rat model Metal clips are widely used for surgical procedures such as wound closure, vessel ligation or bowel reconstruction. Unfortunately, most of the currently used metal clips are made of titanium or titanium alloys which, when exposed to a…

  • State-of-the-art technology seen at CYBATHLON Wheelchair Series Japan 2019

    State-of-the-art technology seen at CYBATHLON Wheelchair Series Japan 2019

    Team Fortississimo’s powered wheelchair Fortississimo, the third winner of the CYBATHLON Wheelchair Series Japan 2019 is a team created by the Faculty of Science and Technology of Keio University, in Japan. The concept of the team literally refers to the team name: Fortississimo stands for “playing louder” in musical notation, and it means for the…

  • The CYBATHLON Wheelchair Series to be held in Japan in May

    The CYBATHLON Wheelchair Series to be held in Japan in May

    Team RT-Movers JPN ETH Zürich/Alessandro Della Bella While the Olympics and Paralympics are contests of human abilities and strictly restrict the involvement of devices, the CYBATHLON is a competition in which technologies complement disabilities, symbolizing the future of the relationship between humans and technology. The CYBATHLON poses to society the question; “to what extent can…

  • Succeeding as a woman in biomedical engineering

    Succeeding as a woman in biomedical engineering

    Tell us a bit about your career as a scientist and Professor and what a typical day looks like for you. What is the most rewarding part of your role? As a scientist and a professor, my typical day is focused on teaching the younger generation of engineering students and expanding on my own research.…

  • Highlights of the BMC series: September 2018

    Highlights of the BMC series: September 2018

    BMC Women’s Health: Use of emergency contraception among women with experience of domestic violence and abuse: a systematic review Women who are subjected to domestic violence and abuse (DVA) are at a higher risk of unintended pregnancies and abortions, especially those women submitted to reproductive coercion by their male partners. The WHO and NICE guidelines…