In 2015, Dr Canan Dağdeviren (seen right) was busy with her post-doctoral fellowship at MIT in Boston when she received news that […]
Posts Tagged ‘Invention’
Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded
For over 30 years, editors at the Annals of Improbable Research have awarded the Ig Nobel Prizes which are parodies of the […]
MRI for the Little Guy
One of the major breakthroughs in medical science during the last two decades of the 20th century was the introduction of […]
First to File versus First to Invent
Over the past six years, CapeRay has had significant success with the award of key patents in the field of […]
Watching Breast Cancer Cells Form
Imagine if it was possible for a surgeon, when operating on a patient with breast cancer, to insert a microscope […]
Invention and Entrepreneurship
David Albert is the founder and chief medical officer of AliveCor, a ten-year-old company whose vision is “to be the 24/7 virtual […]
Nobel Prize Controversies
Over the years, there have been three medical imaging technologies whose developers have been awarded a Nobel Prize: X-rays (1901); […]
Turning Cancer on Itself
Fifteen years ago, Samuel Mazin was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, studying the inverse geometry of computer tomographic (CT) systems. He […]
Harambee: A Book is Launched
Yesterday saw the launch of a marvellous new book authored by Mike Bruton entitled Harambee. Published by BestRed, an imprint […]
Another US Patent for CapeRay
Five years ago, we reported that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had awarded CapeRay a key patent to protect our novel dual-modality […]