DeepTech + MedTech
Imaging, surgical technology, sensors, lab automation, organoids, bioprinting, brain health and next-generation devices.
The Next Medical Device Wave: Sensors, Robotics, Imaging, and Intelligent Software
Wearable sensors, photon-counting scanners, autonomous surgical robots and AI software are reshaping medical devices. The real test is whether patients do better.
Latest in DeepTech + MedTech
AI + MedicineThe MRI Reinvention: Faster Scans, Better Images, and the Real Role of AI
AI reconstruction has nearly halved knee MRI scan times in clinical studies without losing diagnostic accuracy. But networks that fill in missing data can also invent or erase detail, so validation must be specific.
DeepTech + MedTechBioprinting Human Tissue: What Works in the Lab, and What Would It Take to Reach Patients?
No bioprinted solid organ has been transplanted into a person, but bioprinting has produced striking lab and animal results. Here is what works today, what has reached early human testing, and what still stands in the way.
DeepTech + MedTechOrganoids and Lab-Grown Models: Could They Improve How We Test Treatments?
Organoids and organ-on-a-chip systems let researchers test drugs on human tissue models before people. The early evidence is promising but specific, and the models still miss much of real human biology.
Technology explainers
CRISPR gene editing
A programmable molecular tool that cuts or changes DNA at a chosen address.
Explainer →mRNA medicines
Temporary genetic instructions that let the body’s own cells make a protein.
Explainer →CAR-T cell therapy
A patient’s own immune cells, re-engineered to find and attack a target.
Explainer →AI image reconstruction
Software that turns less raw scanner data into a usable image.
Explainer →Liquid biopsy & multi-cancer early detection
Looking for traces of tumour DNA in a blood sample.
Explainer →Organoids & organs-on-chips
Miniature, simplified human tissues grown in the lab to test biology and drugs.
Explainer →From The Lab
What if an MRI scan took a fraction of the time?
Shorter scans could mean less time lying still in a loud tube — and more people scanned per day.
What if we could print living tissue that functions inside the body?
Printing shapes is easy. Printing tissue that lives, breathes and connects is not.
Watch and learn
How does an MRI machine work?
A plain-language look at the physics behind magnetic resonance imaging, from powerful magnets to radio pulses and hydrogen atoms in the body. Viewers come…
How to 3D print human tissue – Taneka Jones
Shows how bioprinters build living tissue layer by layer using cell-laden 'bio-inks'. Viewers learn what has been achieved so far and the obstacles, such…
Hans Clevers (Hubrecht I., UU) 3: Organoid Technology for Disease Modeling
Organoid pioneer Hans Clevers explains how adult stem cells can be grown into miniature organ-like structures in the lab. He describes how these organoids…
Explore other frontiers
The Spin Brief
One concise weekly roundup of what moved in medicine — what happened, what the evidence shows, and what to watch next. No hype, no stock tips.
- Five stories that mattered, each with its own Spin
- One stage change in the pipeline tracker, sourced
- One Lab question to think about
We use double opt-in: check your inbox to confirm. We never sell your address, and we never ask for health or genetic information.