Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bioengineers in South Korea have succeeded in developing an intravenous needle (IV) that can bend and flex as it enters the human ...

Researchers have shown that pain experienced by patients during medical treatments can be considerably alleviated by holding and experiencing the motions of a soft furry robot. Based on measures of ...

Scientists in the U.S. have developed polymer microparticles that can release vaccines at specific times after injection, sometimes even months later, potentially removing the need for multiple ...

Tsukuba, Japan—While most of us are never without our smartphones, robots may also soon become indispensable companions. It certainly seems so based on the recent experiments conducted by researchers ...