A French startup named Robeauté has just raised about $29 million to develop a truly groundbreaking neurosurgical microrobot. Imagine a device no bigger than a grain of rice that can carefully ...

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Tiny electronic chips that can be threaded into the brain through a needle instead of a scalpel are moving from speculative concept to early reality. Researchers are now testing injectable implants ...

Imagine what brain surgeons could do with a three-dimensional (3D)-printed model of the brain. Not a structural model printed in plastic and uniform throughout, but one that mirrors the heterogeneity ...

Treating brain diseases is extraordinarily challenging, because drugs often work poorly and implants require risky surgery that can jeopardize critical brain functions. A group at MIT has sought a ...

In a new interview, Medtronic CEO Geoff Martha — whose company produces high tech medical devices — described the latest in ...

Imagine a world where surgeons are guided by AI to perform complex operations with the precision of world-class experts and where life-saving surgery reaches remote corners of the globe through ...

Is curing Alzheimer's disease an impossible challenge or can we get there? To find out I've been invited to watch brain surgery at the cutting edge of dementia research. I'm wearing scrubs at the back ...

Brielle Langford's life was a series of worries and "watch outs." The 11 year old from New Braunfels had her first seizure when she was 4 days old after having hyperglycemia and then a stroke. Her ...