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Stethoscope
In 1816 ,Rene Laennec used a tube to travel sounds and listen to a women's breast but instead of placing his ear against her, he was modest and used a tube, sparking the idea for stethoscopes. -
Electrophysiology
DuBois Reymond published the widely recognized Ueber die tierische Elektrizitaet. -
X-Ray
Wilhelm Roentgen accidentally discovered that a cathode-ray tube could make a sheet of paper coated with barium platinocyanide glow, even when the tube and the paper were in separate rooms. Roentgen decided the tube must be emitting some kind of penetrating rays, which he called “X” rays for unknown. This set off a flurry of research into the tissue-penetrating and tissue-destroying properties of X-rays. -
Biophysical Society
Following the Second World War, administrative committees began forming around the combined areas of engineering, medicine and biology. A biophysical society was formed in Germany in 1943 -
Biomedical Engineering Support
Also in the early 1960s the NIH took three significant steps to support biomedical engineering. First, it created a program-project committee under the General Medical Sciences Institute to evaluate program-project applications, many of which served biophysics and biomedical engineering. Then it set up a biomedical engineering training study section to evaluate training-grant applications, and it established two biophysics study sections. -
CRISPR
Technology termed CRISPR has been called the discovery of the century, with journalists predicting that the scientists who developed it would get the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (they didn’t, but it was still a huge breakthrough). CRISPR allows genetic code to be modified so that diseases and pathogens can be eliminated, and with further development, may revolutionize medicine in numerous ways. -
Ancient Biomedical Discovery
In 2000, German archeologists uncovered a 3,000-year-old mummy from Thebes with a wooden prosthetic tied to its foot to serve as a big toe -
Brain Machine Interface
Brain allowed to interact with prosthetic limbs. -
Nanotech
Nanoparticles are tiny, often microscopic particles that are increasingly used to detect and treat various forms of cancer at an almost cellular level. Nanomaterials are used to carry dyes to very small areas as contrast agents to detect tumors and to carry treatment drugs directly to cancer instead of having to treat a larger area (or the entire body). -
Bluetooth Oxygen Monitoring
Monitoring a patient’s blood oxygen level just got a lot easier with the recent introduction of two devices that use Bluetooth to deliver the information to a smartphone or tablet using an app, allowing doctors to more closely keep track of a patient’s condition.