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Insertable Heart Monitor with Bluetooth Capability
Confirm-RX heart monitor
In acquiring St. Jude Medical, Abbott picked up an arrhythmia detecting monitor called “Confirm Rx.” About the size [MORE]
Healthcare as a Data Problem
Big data healthcare
“Last year, an article published in The Economist declared that the world’s most valuable resource was no longer [MORE]
Phage Therapy
Genetically engineered phage therapy
A teenage girl developed an antibiotic-resistant infection following a lung transplant to treat cystic fibrosis. Her prospects [MORE]
Organ Chips in Space
Dan Huh and Andrei Georgescu adapting the organ-on-a-chip technology for space
More than half of the Apollo astronauts have experienced bacterial [MORE]
CRISPR as a Genetic Search Engine
Crispr Cas9 protein RNA complex
Heretofore, most of the news about CRISPR was about gene editing, unintended off targeting, and the [MORE]
Neural Speech Prostheses
Brain machine interface for speech impaired people
This report may be related to DARPA’s “silent speech” project. “Researchers at UC San [MORE]
A Mouthful of Micro-Robots
Microrobots clean off biofilm
Using magnetically driven micro robots (aka catalytic antimicrobial robots or CARS), dental researchers at the University of [MORE]