POSTS TAGGED AS biosensors

Smart Sutures for Wireless Data Collection

Smart Sutures
Quoting directly, “A team of engineers [at Tufts University] has developed a novel 3-dimensional thread-based diagnostic platform that, when [MORE]

Silicon Photonics and Optical MEMS

Silicon Photonics
Engineers at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (“A*STAR) are working on environmental microsensors that rely on photonics [MORE]

World’s Smallest Thermometer

DNA Thermometers
Does a person’s constant body temperature of 37 degrees C mean that temperature remains constant with the body’s cells? [MORE]

Gut-Biome Sensor

Jeffrey Tabor
Synthetic biologists at Rice University are working to create bacterial sensors that can detect different kinds of inflammation associated [MORE]

Nanophotonics in Medical Diagnosis

To quote directly: “In the area of nano photonics, scientists [at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology in Germany] for the [MORE]

“Designer” Biosensor Proteins

Fluorescent Biosensor
It would be useful, indeed, to have a biosensor that could detect the metabolic activity with a living cell. [MORE]

A “Pillforge” for Ingestible Capsule Diagnostics

Wireless Module
Engineers at Vanderbilt University‘s Institute for Software Integrated Systems say this about designing a general diagnostic pill for the [MORE]

Subconscious Control of Prosthetic Leg

Ossur Mind Control Limb
The Icelandic prosthetic company Ossur has announced what might be the next generation for artificial limbs. According [MORE]

The Power of Sweat

Sweat-Powered Electronics
The current edge in wearable technology is in pairing flexible circuits with microbatteries. This piece describes research at the [MORE]

Perspective on Wearable Sensors

Rock Health: Future of Wearables
In some ways, the market for wearable biosensors resembles the “dot com” bubble—a tremendous expansion of [MORE]

Biomarker/Sensor for Brain Injury During Heart Surgery

Schematic of an OTFT Device
Organic thin film transistors are dramatically changing the design and development of medical devices, and [MORE]

Interesting New Hydrogel

DNA Hydrogel
Hydrogel, a material made of charged polymers, is widely used in biomedical engineering for such things as biosensors, contact [MORE]

Designing Devices

Sensimed Triggerfish Contact Lens
Tagline has included earlier reports of electronic contact lenses, but this piece, about Sensimed AG’s (Lausanne, [MORE]

Nanolithography for Biosensors

Several developments have come forward recently in designing parallel channel microfluidic chips that can be used as biosensors.  This [MORE]