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Magnetic Millirobots for Treating Hydrocephalus
Medical Millirobots
University of Houston: “Seeking to advance minimally invasive medical treatments, researchers have proposed using tiny robots, driven by magnetic [MORE]
Detecting Drug Use by Fingerprint
Fingerprint
Let’s assume drug residues can be detected in a fingerprint, as this piece claims. This could put more illicit dealers [MORE]
Advanced Microendoscope for Esophageal Cancer Screening
Biopsies are usually taken from patients suspected of having esophageal cancer, but often the tissue is benign. To address this, [MORE]
Implantable Heart Sensor to Monitor Cardiac Patients
CardioMEMS System
Last year, St. Jude Medical (Minneapolis, MN) acquired Atlanta-based CardioMEMS and subsequently won FDA approval for an implantable heart [MORE]
Knee Brace that Generated Electricity as it Flexes
Energy Generating Knee Brace
Electrical engineers at Rice University have built an electrical generator that attaches to a knee brace and [MORE]
DIY Dialysis
Tablo
Outset Medical (San Jose, CA) has limited FDA approval for a new automated hemodialysis system, named “Tablo,” that the company [MORE]
Artificial Immune Organ Produces Antibodies
“Cornell University engineers have created a functional, synthetic immune organ that produces antibodies and can be controlled in the lab, [MORE]
Chip Technology for Artificial Lungs
Draper Lung Device
It was a tremendous technological achievement when, in 1953, Dr. John Gibbon kept a heart patient alive during [MORE]
Genome Sequencing in the Palm of Your Hand
Nanopore miniION
It wasn’t that long ago when a DNA sequencer, like the ABI machines the Human Genome Project relied upon, [MORE]
Sleep, Memory and Beta-Amyloid
Brain with Beta-Amyloid (right)
Sleep is healthful. Indeed, poor sleep quality may be an early sign of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and [MORE]
Cleveland Clinic’s $49 Telemed Consult
Handheld Electronic Device
Cleveland Clinic doesn’t grasp at every healthcare innovation, but when it sees a technology that can efficiently and [MORE]
A Sensor for “Animal Magnetism”
Worm’s Magnetosensor
Before wondering what the roundworm’s burrowing orientation has to do with anything other than C. elegan’s existence, remember that [MORE]
High Resolution 3D imaging Maps the Brain Stem
Radiologists at Duke University have produced an ultra high resolution map of the human brain stem that is a thousand [MORE]
DIY Lab Tests
Flow Health Hub
The Ames Reflectance Meter, when it was patented in 1971, launched a fundamental change in the way diabetics [MORE]