Health

Lee Calladine has been diabetic for 25 years and the insulin top-up routine is so familiar to him that he’s long past feeling squeamish about piercing his skin. Still, the practice is burdensome. Scientists at the TechMed Centre of the University of Twente are closing in on a pain-free method for people like Calladine.

Enter the fascinating world of medical science with this digital tour of the University of Twente's TechMed Centre!

A surgeon swimming through your body, it sounds like science fiction now, but it might be closer than you think. At the TechMed Centre at the University of Twente, tiny robots were already swimming through a detached aorta with kidneys. Discover the future of vascular surgery.

Is 'band syndrome' (bloating after eating) a medical condition or a psychological problem? That question has occupied medical science for decades. Prof Bob Geelkerken, professor at the TechMed Centre at the University of Twente and surgeon at Medisch Spectrum Twente, uses a special method to dispel the question marks once and for all: fake surgery.

Smartwatches that map loneliness among students with specific needs, such as autism. Thanks to UT professor Carolien Rieffe and her team, this will soon be a reality. Carolien received a substantial sum of money from science financier NWO for the Building 4 Belonging project.