Smart Pills with Tiny Needles
Smart pills with tiny needles
In a foreseeable future, insulin injections, vaccinations and IV drips might be replaced with smart pills [MORE]
First Wirelessly Powered Heart Pump
CET system
Heart patients who require a ventricular assist device typically have the pump’s cable protruding through their skin which is [MORE]
A New Blood Volume Analyzer
BVA-100 Blood volume analyzer
Knowing a patient’s blood volume and its constituents is critical information for treating burns, trauma and hemorrhage—and [MORE]
Reprogramming Kidney Repair
Kidney health
In kidney cells, energy generation and repair mechanisms alternate as needed. Case Western Reserve University researchers believe they now [MORE]
DNA Adductomics
Adducts Borane 3D-balls
Roughly half of American adults suffer from at least one of six diseases: cardiovascular, cancer, cardiopulmonary, asthma, diabetes [MORE]
Tear Glucose Sensor
NovioSense device measures tear glucose
A Dutch company, NovioSense BV, has completed a phase 2 study of its device which is [MORE]
Metabolite Test for Blocked Arteries
Treadmill exercise
Cardiologists at Duke University carried out studies of peoples’ blood one hour before a treadmill stress test and two [MORE]
Promoting Vascularization in Kidney Organoids
Culturing kidney organoids under flow
To make muscle cells from human stem cells, mechanical stress, causing stretching and contraction, has to [MORE]
Vitals Monitoring from 4’ away with a Smartphone
Video Vitals
Engineers at Penn State and Johns Hopkins are collaborating in the development of a heart rate monitor that relies [MORE]
Cancer-Detecting Sensor
Nanobiosensors to detect cancer
Whether a gene mutation initiates cancer, or a post translational modification to the gene’s protein is the [MORE]
Vista’s Eight Signs Monitoring System
Vita Patch biosensor
Vital signs monitors keep improving, though there may not be a clear winner for the best possible. This [MORE]
Appetite-Suppressing Implant
Battery-free implant to suppress appetite
Between the brain and the belly, the vagus nerve signals hunger and fullness. It is known [MORE]
It Depends on how You Grow Stem Cells
Selective Laminin-Directed Differentiation of Human iPSCs
Stem cell biologists at Osaka University have found that by growing human iPSCs in the [MORE]
Looking Ahead at Surgical Robots
2 LB robot operates outside the body
What’s on the horizon for surgical robots? How about these things: more sensitive force [MORE]
13 Years of iPSC Therapies in Clinical Trials
iPS cell therapies for clinical trials
Thirteen years have passed since Kyoto University’s Shinya Yamanaka demonstrated how altering four genes could [MORE]
Voice Recognition in Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence in EHR Software
Here’s one opinion of eight from hospital Chief Medical Information Officers about voice recognition: “Physicians are [MORE]
National Lab’s Wearable Vital Signs Monitor
VitalTag prototype
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s stick-on “VitalTag” monitors blood pressure, heart rate, respiration, blood oxygen, shock index, and has [MORE]
Injectable Gel for Cervical Brachytherapy
Brachytherapy seeds
Considering the long standing sports rivalry between Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia, it might come as a [MORE]
Graphene/Salvia-Hydrogel on the Brain
Kizkitza González and team develop new hydrogel for brain implants
Engineers at the University of the Basque Country and the University [MORE]
Stem Cells in Energy Metabolism and Inflammation
Mesenchymal stem cells
Mesenchymal stem cells exist in bone marrow, cord blood, fat tissue, tooth buds, and amniotic fluid—where they initiate [MORE]
A Clinical Commode
“Smart” toilet seat
You’ve heard of wearable, ingestible and implantable sensors for distance monitoring. Now from engineers at Rochester Institute of [MORE]
Rutgers’s Phlebotomy Robot also Does Testing
Rutgers Venipuncture robot
Over the past year, Rutgers University engineers have put together three existing technologies to automate phlebotomy and blood [MORE]
Kidney Organoids More than Stem Cells
Kidney Organoids with rogue cells
It was a surprising finding that 10-20% of cells in kidney organoids actually were cells of [MORE]
Hydrogel in Regenerative Medicine
Hydrogel for tissue regeneration
Materials scientists in Switzerland have engineered a new hydrogel that is highly adhesive to bones and can [MORE]
The Electronic Body
IMPRESS microchip
Heart pacemakers evolved from a cart-platform the patient pushed around, to a wearable necklace, and, in 1958 to a [MORE]