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iEAT Food Allergy Detector
Allergen Keychain iEAT
Food allergies, especially for children, can be life threatening, and often detection comes too late. Researchers at Harvard, [MORE]
Photon Imaging through Deep Tissue
Photon Medical Camera
As an endoscopic camera is inserted into the body, scattered light diminishes the image it shows. Researchers at [MORE]
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for Language Translation
iFlytek Voice Recognition
For several years, IBM worked on a handheld language translator that patients and healthcare providers could use in [MORE]
pH Precise Drug Release in the Stomach
Stomach Micromotors
To treat stomach lesions associated with H. pylori infections, doctors give proton pump inhibiting drugs before administering antibiotics. The [MORE]
Inhaled Insulin and Wireless Glucose Monitoring Trial
One Drop Diabetes Management Platform
The FDA has approved MannKind Corporation’s (West Lake Village, CA) “Afrezza” inhaled insulin, and One Drop’s [MORE]
Hand Held Acoustic and ECG Device
Heart Device
Cardiovascular disease accounts for 30% of all human deaths. AUM Cardiovascular Inc. (South Northfield, MN) has an FDA approved [MORE]
Robotic Hospital Bed Washing
DTU Robots Clean Hospital Beds
Slowly, hospitals are turning to robotic solutions—tugs for delivering supplies, self-driving wheelchairs and gurneys, automated pharmacies [MORE]
Organ Printing with Better Bio-Ink
UBC Okanagan’s Keekyoung Kim Researches Bio Ink
Bioprinters require an “ink” that produces uniform droplets. In most instances today that ink [MORE]
Gene Therapy Nanoparticles that Enhance CAR-T Therapy
CAR-Engineered T-Cell
Some of the excitement over chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy for cancer has diminished following the first patient [MORE]
RNA Sequencing with a Microfluidics Device
Single Cell RNA Sequencing
In order to map a brain, investigators have to show different cells types, and differences in each [MORE]
Engineering a Breathing Lung
Bioengineering Using Functional Vascularized Lung Scaffold
Columbia University bioengineers have created the first functional lung (rodent) with perfusable and healthy vasculature. [MORE]
A Bathroom Scale with a College Education
PhysioSensing Pad
Mark Twain said cauliflower was just broccoli with a college education. Something like that might be said of this [MORE]
Preventing Blood Culture Contamination
SteriPath-Gen2
Even with wiping the skin with an alcohol swab before taking a blood draw, skin bacteria can contaminate the sample [MORE]
A Cancer-Sniffing Pen
MasSpec Pen for Cancer Diagnosis
Using a pen-like device, engineers at the University of Texas at Austin were able to apply [MORE]