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First Cyborg Olympics

Cyborg Olympics
Who will win the gold in the brain interface race, or the muscle stimulation bike race, or the wearable [MORE]

“LabCorp in a Box”

Maverick Detection System
Typical blood testing for general health covers about 35 assays for kidney function, electrolytes and minerals, liver functions, [MORE]

Genetics of Athleticism

Athelete
Make your own judgments about this one: “Athletigen [Halifax, Nova Scotia] analyzes DNA extracted from saliva, and provides the foundation [MORE]

Self-Folding Graphene Paper in Medical Applications

Origami
Here’s a medical device idea that’s still on the drawing boards—though it deserves close attention. Materials scientists at Donghua University [MORE]

Menstrual Cup with Smartphone Reporting

Loon Cup
Loon Labs, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) is a Kickstarter funded company that has produced a sensor embedded cup which [MORE]

Illumina’s “PopArray” for Population Health

DNA sequencing machine manufacturer Illumina (San Diego, CA) has taken a surprising step toward a competing technology, microarray, for a [MORE]

Direct to Consumer Liquid Biopsy Test for Multiple Cancers

CancerIntercept Liquid Biopsy
Pathway Genomics (San Diego, CA) is the first company to offer liquid biopsy screening tests for multiple cancers [MORE]

Checklist for Device Innovation

Checklist
Many, if not most, of the medical device developers who subscribe to Tagline know about the checklist of things necessary [MORE]

Predictive Modeling: the Future of Health Care?

Dr. Patrick Soon Shiong
Whether he turns out to be the hero of his own life or that station will be [MORE]

The World of Wearables

This infographic piece doesn’t show the wearable world map in great detail, but it has all the continents of the [MORE]

Spray Cryotherapy: Freezing Tumors Inside the Body

Endo Cryo Treatment Area-
CSA Medical (Baltimore, MD) has developed a spray freezing technology for destroying tumors in the body without [MORE]

Putting Genomic Data into an EMR

DNA
UCLA hospitals and Seattle-based ActX, a consumer genomics company, are collaborating to put genomic test results into UCLA’s Epic Medical [MORE]

EPIC Welcomes App Developers

Epic Systems EHR
Sometime this year, the US Defense Department will choose a provider for military’s electronic health record—a contract worth [MORE]

A Lesson about Personalized Drug Dosing

3D Integrated Pharmaceuticals
This piece describes a process called “3-D integrated pharmaceuticals” which relies on prefabricated components that can be assembled, [MORE]