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Implantable Capsule for Diabetes

MIT-Diabetes-Stem Cell
Islet cell transplantation has been tried for several years in treating Type 1 diabetes, but the body’s immune response [MORE]

Cuffless BP Monitor

Cuffless Blood Pressure
Last week’s Tagline had a story about researchers at Kyoto University and Panasonic Corporation using radar and sensors [MORE]

Glucose Monitoring with a Contact Lens

Contact Lens
The basic idea of organic electronics is finding materials which support electrical circuits and are biocompatible with living tissue. [MORE]

Photoplethysmography

Coded Hemodynamic-Imaging
Researchers at the University of Waterloo (Ontario) have developed an infrared imaging system for measuring blood flow simultaneously at [MORE]

A Robotic Glove for Rehabilitation

EsoGlove
Quoting from this piece directly: “A new robotic glove for hand rehabilitation swaps conventional rigid electromechanical components for soft fabric [MORE]

GI Camera Pill with its Own Light Source

Fluorescent Video Pill
Camera pills have been around for a few years, but they require an external light source to produce [MORE]

An Ingestible Stethoscope

Swallow Sensor
Heart and respiration rates are key indicators for many medical conditions, and while the stethoscope is now in its [MORE]

Hybrid Microscope and Mass Spec Analyzer

Microscope Spectrometer
Engineers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have built a high resolution optical microscope and mass spectrometer combination with “both [MORE]

An Injectable Immunotherapy Gel

Biogel Cancer Immunotherapy
Materials scientists and immunotherapists at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Center have developed a means (not yet [MORE]

Gender Identification by Fingerprint

Fingerpint Analysis
Fingerprint analysis for crime investigation has been around since the late 19th century, but even a detective like “Sherlock [MORE]

DARPA’s Self-Healing Body Concept

DARPA ElectRx Electric Prescriptions
DARPA, the folks who gave us the internet and GPS, now imagine implanting sensors in the body [MORE]

Monitoring the Immune System Noninvasively

Leukometer
Patients undergoing anticancer chemotherapy need frequent blood monitoring to see if the drugs are killing off more white blood cells [MORE]

An Exercise Pill?

Exercising
“Compound 14” is the name biochemists at the University of Southampton (UK) have given to a molecule that initiates a [MORE]

A Sensor for “Animal Magnetism”

Worm’s Magnetosensor
Before wondering what the roundworm’s burrowing orientation has to do with anything other than C. elegan’s existence, remember that [MORE]