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Technology, biology and medicine now go hand and hand. But state-of-the-art devices are not always available to the most vulnerable hospital patients, often because of insufficient funding. Pediatric surgeon Hanmin Lee of the University of California, San Francisco helps kick-start innovative projects to bring to clinics. “We organize the engineering children’s heath symposiums to try to bring all the emerging technologies to the benefit of children’s health. ” UCSF is now developing different types of monitoring sensors, artificial organs and even orthopedic magnets that can correct skeletal deformities – all in the hopes of advancing children’s health. “Little robots, all sorts of enabling technologies that we will be able to implement into children with a variety of disabilities for their benefit. And that’s including using, for instance, augmented reality and virtual reality.” The Miracle Babies / Advances in fetal surgery at UCSF's Fetal Treatment Center save twins in a dire situation Katherine Se