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Factory-Made Human Organs

Artifical Trachea
Harvard Apparatus Regeneration Technology, Inc. (Holliston, MA) is a spin off from Harvard Bioscience specifically to grow transplantable synthetic [MORE]

Wrist Worn BP Monitor

ViSi Mobile
As one medical automation authority said, “[this device] is a complete wireless ambulatory ICU,” referring to “ViSi Mobile” [MORE]

The “Better” eHealth Phone App

Thousands of health-monitoring smartphone apps exist, but is more chaff than wheat in the winnowing.  Mayo Clinic may have [MORE]

Handheld Brain Hematoma Detector

InfraScan
Bleeding inside the brain after a traumatic event can be life threatening and very hard to detect in the [MORE]

Hand-Held Device for Extracting DNA

Hand-Held Device for Extracting DNA
Extracting DNA from a cell sample and prepping it for sequencing, by current methods, [MORE]

“Merlin@home” 24/7 Heart Monitor

Merlin@Home

Here is a variation on “companion diagnostics,” not between a test and a drug, but matching an implantable [MORE]

Visual Database for Human Diseases

Visualdx
At our MedicalAutomation conference last November, Logical Images, Inc. (Rochester, NY) exhibited its commercially available image database for disease [MORE]

Implantable Microchip for Drug Delivery

Implantable device of drug delivery
Last year, MicroCHIPs, Inc. (Waltham, MA) carried out a clinical trial in Denmark of its [MORE]

Distance Monitoring of COPD

This piece describes a telemonitoring protocol that researchers at UCLA and eResearch Technology (Philadelphia, PA) have put together to [MORE]

Swisslog and Adept Technology Partner on Hospital Robots

pharmacy Automation System
Two companies specializing in healthcare robotics-Swisslog (North American offices in Denver, CO) and Adept Technology, Inc. [MORE]

Blood Glucose Reading from Exhaled Breath

A patent must prove to be novel, useful and not obvious, and it has been the usefulness of earlier [MORE]

Berkeley’s New Synthetic Biology Institute

Matt Tirrell, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Bioengineering
Last month, a group of 33 researchers in engineering, biology and [MORE]

Near Infrared Non-Invasive Glucose Monitor

Professor Xu Zhi and non-invasive glucose monitor
The solution is as dumbfounding as the problem it addresses, diabetes.  Millions of [MORE]

Neuron Progenitor Cells Commercially Available

Motor Plates
While the debate over human embryonic stem cells remains contentious, Lonza (Walkersville, MD) and California Stem Cell, Inc. [MORE]