Wearables in Sports: Smart clothing (e-textile) technologies
Wearables are smart electronic devices and accessories that can sense the person who is wearing them. Thanks to the advances in sensor technology, continuous...
Healthcare IoT revolutionising diagnostics through digestible sensors
The Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare is being used as a new generation of automated medication. Health parameters and vital signs are measured...
Current use cases of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare
The healthcare sector is undergoing a rapid transformation globally due to the new advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, natural...
Challenges to the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Pharma
Historically, the discovery of new drugs takes a long time to extract ingredients from natural products, test compounds against samples of diseased cells, and...
History of artificial intelligence in medicine (AIM)
The term "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) was coined in 1950. Alan Turing was the first to describe the use of computers to simulate intelligent behavior...
Artificial intelligence in cancer imaging – Current trends
The exponential growth and availability of healthcare data coupled with the increasing computational power have enabled the development of AI systems and machine learning...
Choosing a robot for drug manufacturing – Things to consider
Robots have been present in the pharmaceutical industry for more than two decades. In drug manufacturing, they play a vital role in all complicated...
AI in drug discovery – Benefits, drawbacks, and challenges
All current drug discovery approaches suffer from several common issues. First of all, they require a huge amount of funding to take a drug...
AI-based tools and databases for Drug Discovery
The development of a new drug is a very complex, expensive, and long process, broadly divided into four major stages: target selection and validation;...
Artificial vision – Bionic eyes or retinal implants for the blind
Vision impairment or blindness occurs due to retinal diseases, damage, or age-related macular degeneration of the optic nerve, the brain, or any part of...
Virtual Reality (VR) in cognitive rehabilitation
Virtual reality (VR) is quickly finding wider acceptance in healthcare as the medical community increasingly becomes aware of its potential benefits as a promising...
How robots are supporting the fight against COVID-19
Do you remember watching The Terminator growing up? What about RoboCop or Transformers?
Back in the 1980s and ’90s, the thought of having robots walking...
