Researchers are developing probes that highlight the goings on inside cells at a super high resolution at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering of Harvard University in Boston.

The U.S. medical electronics market is estimated to rise to $372.4 billion by 2018, according to a worldwide medical electronics market report published November 2013 by research firm Axis Research Mind.

A novel non-embyronic stem cell therapy is being studied to replace damaged dopaminergic brain cells in Parkinson's patients with their own cells in the hopes of restoring normal movement. 

Higher serum cholesterol levels could potentially mean a higher risk of developing the neurodegenerative disease, according to a PET study published Dec. 30 in JAMA Neurology.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) announced Jan. 6 that a new nuclear medicine physics residency grant would provide $75,000 in funding for a single resident for up to two years.

With the world’s major producing reactors shutting down regularly or facing decommission, some enterprising solutions to medical isotope production are jockeying to pick up the slack in North America, according to a review published Dec. 11 in Nature.

Delphinus Medical Technologies Inc. of Plymouth Township, Mich., has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its SoftVue™ whole breast ultrasound tomography system

The worldwide MRI industry is expected to be worth more than $5 billion in the next four years with a calculated annual growth rate of 4.56 percent, according to a market report from research firm MarketsandMarkets.