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pH Precise Drug Release in the Stomach

Stomach Micromotors
To treat stomach lesions associated with H. pylori infections, doctors give proton pump inhibiting drugs before administering antibiotics. The [MORE]

A Bathroom Scale with a College Education

PhysioSensing Pad
Mark Twain said cauliflower was just broccoli with a college education. Something like that might be said of this [MORE]

A New Kind of “Tissue Paper”

Tissue Paper Made From Organs
In a multistep process (see the video), biochemists at Northwestern University have taken animal tissues, minced [MORE]

Million Electrode Array for Brain-Computer Interface

Brain Electrode
Under DARPA’s Neural Engineering Systems Design Program, engineers at Columbia University have developed a high density electrode array that’s [MORE]

Harvard’s Robotic Arm for Endoscopic Surgery

Soft Robotic Arm for Endoscopic Exam
Quoting directly: “We were able to design a device that can lie flat when the [MORE]

Barcoding Biomarkers

LabOnAChip
Quoting directly: “Researchers at Rutgers University are now reporting in journal Lab on a Chip on a new barcoding technique [MORE]

Photoacoustic Imaging of Tumor Margins

Breast Surgery
Because breast tissue has relatively high optical contrast, laser light can penetrate deeply to find tumor margins during surgery. [MORE]

Laser Ablation of Arterial Plaque

DABRA Laser-Based Arterial Blockage Ablation System
Ra Medical (Carlsbad, CA) has introduced its laser-based arterial blockage ablation machine for clearing peripheral [MORE]

New Artificial Lung

Artificial Lung
The heart lung machine Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr. invented and first used on a surgery patient in May [MORE]

Monitoring Biomarkers with a Contact Lens

Contact Sensor
Passive, continuous monitoring of biomarkers in body fluids holds great promise for making good health more achievable. This piece [MORE]

Robotic Microsurgeon for Cochlear Implants

Cochlear Implant
Quoting directly from this piece: “Robotics has the potential to give surgeons the dexterity, patience, and sensitivity that humans [MORE]

DNA Diagnostics in a POC Device

Cellphone DNA Detector
Bioengineers at UCLA recently found that adding a chemical, hydroxynaphthol blue, to the intercalator dyes that detect certain [MORE]

Lab on a Glove

ACS Lab on a Glove
Quoting this piece: “A recent study published in the journal ACS Sensors describes a novel flexible, [MORE]

Body Temperature Pill

BodyCap e-Celsius-e-Pill
It’s a little hard to imagine why tracking a patient’s GI tract temperature every 30 seconds would be clinically [MORE]