A robot dentist in China has carried out the world's first successful autonomous implant surgery by fitting two new teeth into a woman?s mouth. The implants were fitted to within a margin of error of 0.2-0.3mm, reaching the required standard for this kind of operation.The technology was designed to overcome mainland China?s shortage of qualified dentists and frequent surgical errors. The teeth were 3D printed.
http://m.scmp.com/news/china/article/2112197/chinese-robot-dentist-first-fit-implants-patients-mouth-without-any-human
Australian company Microbio has been awarded a Federal Government Accelerating Commercialisation Grant to commercialise a new diagnostic assay to rapidly identify 26 of the most common pathogens that cause bloodstream infections and sepsis. The InfectID-Blood Stream Infection (BSI) diagnostic
assay is a real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) identifies the
pathogen causing the infection in about two hours to enable patients to be
treated with targeted antimicrobials in a timely manner. Sepsis kills around 11 million people around the world
each year. | https://microbio.com.au/news-and-events/
DNA has been the predominant information storage medium for biology and holds great promise as a next-generation high-density data medium in the digital era.Researchers from Columbia University have demonstrated a new approach that can directly convert digital electronic signals into genetic data stored in the genomes of living cells. That could lead to a host of applications both for data storage and beyond, says Harris Wang, who led the research published in Nature Chemical Biology.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-020-00711-4
