POSTS TAGGED AS implantable device

Brain Implant Moves Individual Prosthetic Fingers

Brain Implant
This story is both fascinating and unsettling. Researchers at Johns Hopkins conducted a brain mapping experiment on a young [MORE]

Implantable Bio-Hybrid Device: An Artificial Kidney

Fissell Microchip for Artificial Kidney
In a soda-can sized container, engineers at Vanderbilt University have placed fifteen computer chips and a [MORE]

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]

Implantable Gastric Monitoring Chip

Gastric Implant
Indigestion, cramps, malnutrition and endocrine disorders are some of the consequences of gastric dysrhythmias and there are no good [MORE]

Musical Medical Magic

Paramusical Ensemble
Just three years ago, news broke that a Massachusetts woman with “locked in” syndrome was able to think her [MORE]

Nanowire Implants for Controlled Release of Drugs

Polypyrrole Microstructure
Pyrrole is a naturally occurring aromatic compound, originally discovered in coal tar, but later found in a variety of [MORE]

Implant to Control Hunger

EnteroMedics Maestro vBloc
EnteroMedics (St. Paul, MN) has been FDA approved to implant its hunger control device as a bariatric surgery [MORE]

Brain Oximetry in Treating Gliomas

Glioblastoma
Gliomas, like other solid tumors, have low oxygen levels (hypoxia) at their cores, which inhibits both chemotherapy and radiation treatments. [MORE]

Chemotherapy Eluting Implant

MIT Personalized Medicine
MIT researchers have devised a tiny, implantable device that can deliver small doses of up to 30 different [MORE]

Wireless Implants for Antibiotic Delivery

Implants Dissolving
Researchers at Tufts University and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana have developed an implantable device, made of magnesium, [MORE]

Window Sensors on the Brain

See-Through Sensors
Among graphene’s remarkable properties are its electrical conductivity and capability of fabricating extremely thin structures. Knowing this, biomedical engineers [MORE]

Implantable BP Sensor

CardioMEMS Pulmonary Artery-Sensor
The FDA has approved an implantable wireless device to monitor pulmonary artery pressure. The manufacturer, CardioMEMS (Atlanta, GA), [MORE]

Wirelessly Powering Electroceutical Devices for Pain Relief

Medical Chip for Power Transfer
As an alternative to large batteries which need to be replaced, as with pacemakers, Stanford engineers [MORE]

A New Kind of “Wearable” Sensor for the Heart

3-D Measure of the Heart
Previously, Tagline has reported on sensored patches that monitor heart function, but this piece is about [MORE]