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News • Flexible electronics implant

“Cyborg” transplant could fix diabetes damage to the pancreas

Researchers have created a ‘cyborg’ pancreas device - an ultrathin mesh of conductive wires within growing pancreatic tissue - that could open up new ways for treating diabetes.

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News • Soft tissue ablation

Adapting eye-laser technology to remove cancer

Scientists have shown that a type of laser similar to the one currently used in routine eye surgery could one day help surgeons remove unwanted tissues, such as tumours, with unprecedented accuracy.

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News • Quantification of axonal damage

Detecting white matter injury with diffusion MRI

Non-invasive, millimetre-scale diffusion MRI (dMRI) can be used to detect morphological changes in axons – a common hallmark of a wide range of neurological disorders, new research shows.

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News • Tissue sample analysis

Demographic bias creeps into pathology AI, study finds

A sample of inequality: A new study shows that AI models can infer demographic information from pathology slides, leading to bias in cancer diagnosis among different populations.

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News • In vitro disease models

'Intrepid' research to advance cancer therapies

A major new initiative aims to enable the development of advanced, specific and highly reproducible human in vitro models for greater understanding of disease and the acceleration of new medicines.

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News • Non-invasive structured bioink deposition

A pill-sized bioprinter could repair GI tract injuries from the inside

To help repair soft tissue injuries of the gastrointestinal tract like ulcers or hemorrhages, EPFL researchers envision a new class of device: a pill-sized, swallowable bioprinter.

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