Next time your Wiimote accidentally gets thrown into your LCD TV, don’t fret too much – chemicals found in the broken TV sets could be used to fight infections in the human body.
Measuring just three inches, that strange plastic doohickey the woman is holding there can detect 3000 different viruses in under a day. This bio-detector could end up saving your life, in other words.
Neurologists have built an ultrasound device which uses focused sound waves to destroy stroke-causing blood clots in brains. The procedure is non-invasive – requiring no drugs or surgery – and is already being tested on patients.
