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Business Card with Built-In Electrocardiograph
ECG Business Card
It says right on this business-card gizmo that it is not a diagnostic device, but it is intriguing [MORE]
Surgical Robot with Internal Motor
Internal Motor Surgical Robot
Noting that currently available surgical robots are designed for multiple incisions, biomedical engineers at Hong Kong Polytechnic [MORE]
Self-Focusing Eyeglasses
Focusing Eyeglasses
In 1987 Japanese camera maker Canon introduced its electro-optical system for autofocusing. Sensors perceived where the eye was looking [MORE]
Ambulatory 24 hour Blood Pressure Monitor
Oscar 2 with Sphygmocor
Quoting directly from this piece: “SunTech Medical [Morrisville, NC] and AtCor Medical [West Ryde, New South Wales, [MORE]
A Beneficial Mutation Against Heart Attack
ANGPTL4
In a DNA sequencing study that involved 54,000 SNPs, in 13,715 genes, among almost 73,000 patients with coronary artery disease [MORE]
“Person-on-a-Chip”
There’s a fine art in making miniature human organs. Tissue engineers at the University of Toronto have shown how they [MORE]
An Update on “Fantastic Voyage”
Fantastic Voyage Illustration
Imagine gold nanoparticles to which long and short sequences of DNA are attached. The large sequences are receptors [MORE]
3-D Printing of Thick Vascularized Tissue
Tissue Engineering
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have used 3-D bioprinting to create “thick vascularized tissue constructs composed of human stem [MORE]
Origami-Inspired Surgical instruments
Origami Inspired Surgical Instruments
The Japanese acquired their concepts of paper folding as an art form from the Chinese, who for [MORE]
“Self-Healing” Materials
Self-Adaptive Material
One can almost hear the late French chef Julia Child describing this recipe: Take two polymers, mix them together, [MORE]
3-D Printing a Living Ear
Ear Scaffolds
Using “bio-inks” made of a degradable plastic like material and water based gels containing cells regenerative medicine scientists at [MORE]
Perspective on Strain Gages
Strain gages are electrical sensors that measure the change in electrical resistance when a device’s shape is deformed. For example, [MORE]
Brain Implant Moves Individual Prosthetic Fingers
Brain Implant
This story is both fascinating and unsettling. Researchers at Johns Hopkins conducted a brain mapping experiment on a young [MORE]
3-D Printed Automated Suturing Device
Suturing Device and Printer
With a design reminiscent of Allen Wilson’s rotating hook sewing machine of 1852, Sutrue (Chelmsford, Essex, UK) [MORE]