Researchers engineering new drug to beat blood cancers

Hasan Uludag holds a sample of leukemia cells treated with experimental drugs his team is testing that fight blood cancers by targeting gene defects in blood cells. (Photo: Geoff McMaster)

Reading Time: 3 minutes RNA technology used to target gene defects in blood cells that lead to diseases like leukemia

App uses artificial intelligence to track healing wounds in real time

Biomedical engineering innovator Robert Burrell is leading a team of students developing a mobile app that uses AI to track how well wounds are healing and alert users if they need to seek medical help. (Photo: Jason Franson)

Reading Time: 3 minutes Lets patients know when to seek care

Making health care more equitable one ultrasound image at a time

Jacob Jaremko is leading a project to expand access to a new, AI-powered portable ultrasound system he developed, thanks to funding from TD Bank Group. (Photo: Laughing Dog)

Reading Time: 4 minutes AI-powered portable ultrasound system makes scans and diagnoses accessible from anywhere

U of A spinoff, U.S. firm merge to commercialize transplant technology

Cardiac surgery professors Jayan Nagendran (left) and Darren Freed with the EVOSS system they developed to extend the time donated lungs can be kept healthy while they are transported for transplant. The innovative technology took a major step toward approval, manufacture and global distribution with the merger of the U of A spinoff company Tevosol and the U.S.-based medical tech company Bridge to Life. (Photo: University Hospital Foundation)

Reading Time: 5 minutes Bridge to Life commits US$10 million to clinical trial and commercial development of Tevosol Ex-Vivo Organ Support System

High-tech rehabilitative platform connects rural Albertans to specialists

(From left) A physiotherapy patient and her husband from Pincher Creek take part in a Tele-Rehab 2.0 session with physiotherapists Sheelah Woodhouse and Alec Chisholm, U of A project co-ordinator Emily Armstrong and students Amber Wardrop and Kamalpreet Mann. (Photo: Supplied)

Reading Time: 4 minutes Platform allows specialists to offer physiotherapy expertise for patients in smaller communities

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