Newsletter
Sequencing Newborn Genomes in 48 hrs
IlluminaHiSeq2500
Here’s the seeming dilemma: advanced sequencing technology (in this piece, an Illumina HiSeq 2500 machine) identified a child’s [MORE]
Printing New Bones
3-D Printed Skull
Tagline has included many stories about 3-D printing, but this piece has an imbedded video showing how [MORE]
Fierce’s 15 Innovative Devices from 2013
Clearpath Ocular Glucose Monitor
This list included biomarkers for autism and thyroid cancer, devices to control hunger and deliver [MORE]
Molecular Sensor for MS
Advamced Imaging of Thrombin
Neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco have shown how disruption of the blood brain [MORE]
CMS Expands (slightly) Telemed Reimbursement
Telemedicine Yale Medicine
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are gradually (perhaps glacially) moving to support telemedicine by expanding the [MORE]
Implementing RFID
RFID Technology
Radio frequency identification tags—both passive and active—have long been known to cut down on rental equipment, improve cold [MORE]
Hexoskin’s Sensored Clothing
Hexoskin Shirt Measuring Breathing Volume
In another month or so, the Canadian firm Hexoskin (Montreal) will begin marketing its sensored [MORE]
3-D Culture of Pancreatic Islets from ESC’s
Innovative Method to Grow Stem Cells
For more than a decade, tissue culturists have used Matrigel—a protein mix derived from [MORE]
Sensored Belt Allows Continuous ECG Monitoring for Two Weeks
EKG Monitor
Based on developing “dry” electrodes, which do not need a gel to transmit a heartbeat pulse to an [MORE]
Shaping Light Pulses for 10x Data Transmission Rate
Optical Fiber EPFL
While wireless transmission capability is moving toward 1 gigabyte/second, wired capability is leaping ahead even more dramatically. [MORE]
Vitamin B2 in Two Photon Polymerization for Implantable Devices
NC State 3-D Printing Riboflavin
To treat milder forms of the degenerative eye disease keratoconus ophthalmologists apply a few drops [MORE]
Smart “Pill” Device for Occult Blood in GI Tract
GOB
Traces of blood in the stool are alarming, and even more so because it is difficult to discover if [MORE]
Blood Glucose Breathalyzer
Glucose Breathalyzer
Using nano-thin films that react to acetone, engineers at Western New England University have built a device that [MORE]
Gene Therapy Progress Against X-linked SCID
David Vetter was the “bubble boy’s” name and he may have been the most well known patient in medical [MORE]