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Meniscus Tissue Regeneration
Knee Meniscus
People may live to be 125 years old, but they won’t outlive arthritis, which in millions of cases degenerates [MORE]
Walgreens Adopts Telemed Too
MDLIVE
Following CVS and Rite Aid, Walgreens is testing a telemed practice in selected locations. Late last year, it partnered with [MORE]
Wearable Lactic Acid Monitor
BSXInsight Wearable Lactate Threshold Sensor
BSXinsight (Houston, TX) is taking orders for what they claim is “the first wearable lactate threshold [MORE]
Resorbable Electronic Implant with WiFi Control
Silk-based Resorbable Electronic Devices
Here is a significant first-of-its-kind device: “We present the demonstration of in vivo operation of a subcutaneously [MORE]
Thawing Frozen Blood in 3 Minutes
Microfluidic Device for Thawing Blood
Red blood cells stored for transfusion are rarely frozen because they take too long to thaw [MORE]
Intel’s “Curie” Chip for Wearables
Intel Wearable
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, Intel announced its dime-sized “Curie” chip that could change [MORE]
Synthetic ACL Graft
Nanotechnology for ACL Replacements
“A synthetic graft for ACL reconstruction has been developed that integrates with the native bone, promotes growth [MORE]
Tunable Microsieves
Lipid Membranes
Using synthetic lipid spheres and DNA ligands, biochemists at Cambridge University have developed what they believe to be a [MORE]
Interesting Thermal Camera for a Smartphone
Seek Thermal Camera
This YouTube video is borderline goofy, but it refers to a $200 thermal camera (from Thermal.com) which can [MORE]
GI Tract Sensor
Gutcheck Patch
Described as an “EKG for the gut,” G-Tech (Mountain View, CA) is developing a small electronic patch (2.5” in [MORE]
Smarter Textiles
Smart Fabric
Engineers at Laval University (Quebec City) have created a malleable material, from layers of copper, polymers, glass and silver, [MORE]
DIY Home Diagnostics
Flow Health Hub
This piece is a commercial pitch for Cambridge Consultants’ (Cambridge, UK) “Flow Health Hub.” Color-coded cartridges for blood, [MORE]
Automated Delivery Carts
AGC Cart
Hospital automation has the same potential as the US Navy’s autonomous aircraft carrier: i.e. a roughly ten-fold reduction in [MORE]
Perspective on Nanotechnology
Nanoelectronics
It remains to be seen if the fifty year old “Moore’s law” (i.e. a doubling of the number of transistors [MORE]