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Neuroengineering
With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Communications, Communications Medicine, Communications Biology, and Scientific Reports invite manuscripts that highlight the development, use and insight obtained from applying neuroengineering approaches.
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Inclusive bioengineering
This inclusive bioengineering collection features articles that address global inequites related to gaps in bioengineering research and knowledge
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Medical devices for low-resource settings
This Collection welcomes submissions related to novel devices and innovations and improvements to existing devices aimed at the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions in low resource settings.
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Neurotechnologies
This focus highlights neurotechnologies for the treatment of conditions of the central and peripheral nervous system, with emphasis on neural interfaces and on motor and visual neural prostheses.
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Microphysiological systems
Modelling human tissues in microphysiologically relevant ‘chips’ will increasingly help to unravel mechanistic knowledge underlying disease, and might eventually accelerate the productivity of drug development and predict how individual patients will respond to specific drugs.
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Bioelectronic devices
Engineering and materials-science advances drive the miniaturization and long-term and safe operation of bioelectronic devices for diagnostics or therapy.
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Engineered tissues
Research on disease mechanisms will increasingly be supported by progressively more sophisticated engineered tissues serving as in vitro models of human disease.
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Machine learning in healthcare
The accelerating power of machine learning in diagnosing disease and in sorting and classifying health data will empower physicians and speed-up decision making in the clinic.
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Point-of-care devices
To establish wider utility at the point of care, device validation should be carried out within the target population, and in the most appropriate environment and use conditions.
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Cancer immunotherapies
Cancer therapies that target multiple immune pathways take advantage of synergistic killing and decrease the risk of relapse.
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Technology for neuroengineering
Modelling and treating diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems requires far better biomaterials and technology than are currently available.
Image: Maayan Harel and Jerzy Szablowski