A failed wearable energy-harvesting tech just became the front-runner for battery-free, sometimes-dissolving nerve-stim implants. Every recent US patent in the class is Korean.
Histotripsy noninvasively liquefies tumors with cavitation bubbles — and the antigens it releases are training the immune system to find tumors the transducer never touched.
Every mechanism Kurzweil predicted for 2010s nanomedicine has now worked in a human body at least once. The clinic still looks nothing like he drew.
A UCLA psychiatrist patented a device that plays your brain’s own deep-sleep frequency through your skull to clear Alzheimer’s plaque. Behind it: 64 patents, 144 clinical trials, and an FDA-approved device already treating patients.