A revolutionary process for 3D printing stretchable electronic sensory devices that could be used to produce real human skin has recently been developed by researchers at the University of Minnesota.

Decreased costs of computing power and virtually infinite cloud storage capacity have created a fertile environment for artificial intelligence (AI) to disrupt industries across the globe. Computers won’t replace radiologists in the next 10, 20 or 30 years, but I do believe increasingly large parts of the job will be automated—and it may be up to radiologists to carve out space for themselves.

In 2015 a 13-specialty team at Texas Children’s Hospital used 3D modeling based on CT images to plan surgery on, and then successfully separate, conjoined twins. This week Newsweek revisited the case, focusing on the multidisciplinary teamwork as well as the 3D technology. 

Researchers at Lehigh University’s Image Data Emulation & Analysis Laboratory spent 10 years developing an artificial intelligence (AI) screening tool for cervical cancer.

Some of America’s and Germany’s best and—excuse the pun—brightest minds have come together to develop a new class of optical-imaging probe. Its injectable nanoparticles emit short-wave infrared (SWIR) light and may be useful for imaging fine anatomic structures like blood-vessel networks. 

New neuroimaging-based research at the University of Southern California has shown how, over time, the developing pubescent brain changes in distinct ways between boys and girls. 

Blu-Ray, 3D TVs and now virtual reality—three technologies that were each hailed at one point as the next big thing in consumer entertainment. One became ubiquitous, one all but disappeared and the jury’s still out on whether or not virtual reality (VR) is here to stay. 

The public’s reaction to Presidents Trump’s proposed budget has been incendiary—but for good reason: Federal science programs such as the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) all would see cuts of 18 percent or more. However, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are voicing opposition.