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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]