Detecting E. coli with a Smart Phone
By designing a miniature florescent microscope that can affix to a smart phone, over its camera, engineers at UCLA [MORE]
Cell-Engineering for Drug Free Organ Transplants
Kidney transplant patients can take up to 25 drugs, every day for the rest of their lives, to suppress [MORE]
Ion Torrent Sequencer in Hospital Testing
2012 is a big year for South Carolina’s Greenville Hospital System: it celebrates its centennial as a hospital, begins [MORE]
Flexible Pressure Sensor
This piece is short on details, but it notes a new flexible pressure sensor that engineers at the University [MORE]
Hyundai Surgical Robots
Hyundai Heavy Industries Company (Ulsan, South Korea; unaffiliated with the Hyundai Motor Company) is best known as the world’s [MORE]
“Smarter” Test Tubes
With the aim of enhancing laboratory automation, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (St. Ingbert, Germany) [MORE]
Implantable Microchip for Drug Delivery
Last year, MicroCHIPs, Inc. (Waltham, MA) carried out a clinical trial in Denmark of its implantable, wireless drug delivery [MORE]
Robin Felder Receives UVA Edlich Henderson Innovator of the Year Award
Dr. Robin A. Felder professor of pathology and associate director of clinical chemistry at U.Va has been named the 2012 [MORE]
Contact Lenses Offering Wider Field of View
Ben Franklin figured out the advantage of bifocals in 1784, but it has taken more than two centuries to [MORE]
Wellness for Long-Distance Truckers
Rolling Strong, LLC (Las Vegas, NV) has announced its collaboration with Kroger Pharmacies to implement a health monitoring and [MORE]
A Handheld DNA Sequencer for $900
DNA sequencing is an idea that has launched many ships, and the latest technology in this field is the [MORE]
Rapid Self-Healing Hydrogels
See the video in this piece; it describes how bioengineers at the University of California San Diego developed hydrogels with [MORE]
RNA Microsponges as Transporters
Chemical engineers at MIT have developed a new means for delivering therapeutics to targeted cells, calling their creation “RNAi [MORE]
What NFL Uniforms Might Do for Elders
Getting smacked down by a 300 lb linebacker isn’t quite like falling down the stairs, but a broken shoulder [MORE]
Tracking Heartbeat in Real Time on a Smart Phone
As one of several projects in the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne’s “Guardian Angels” suite, researchers have developed an [MORE]
First Artificial Womb
Using a soft polymer bowl that mimics the mammalian uterus and tissue culture, researchers at the UK’s University of [MORE]
Device Innovation Center
This past April, the Global Center for Medical Innovation, a not-for-profit service organization in Atlanta, opened a comprehensive R&D [MORE]
Bedside Genetic Testing
While whole-genome sequencing is moving in the right directions (better results, lower costs), it still will be a while [MORE]
Pacemaker Powered by the Heart Itself
Wouldn’t it be nice if a pacemaker’s battery didn’t have to be surgically replaced after ten years? Researchers at [MORE]
Wellness Program for Schools
Elementary school children in Boston will participate in a wellness study based on their footsteps as monitored by a [MORE]
Early Detection of Atherosclerosis
Biophysicists at the University of Virginia have identified a gene expression profile for diagnosing the risk an individual has [MORE]
Google Glasses
Google is rumored to be planning the release in late 2013 of eye glasses that have a built in [MORE]
Paper-Based Multifluidics Device
Researchers at the University of Shandong and University of Jinan claim that they have developed the first paper-based method [MORE]
Soup to Nuts for Innovators
In a new handbook that guides innovators through a process from discovery to the marketplace, Richard J. McMurtrey, M. [MORE]
Which Bandwidth for Medical Devices?
Many hospital devices, from vital signs monitors to infusion pumps, are now WiFi enabled, and most function on the [MORE]