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Variable Dose Jet Injector

Jet Injection System
Air-jet vaccinators have been around since the smallpox eradication campaign, but engineers at MIT have improved the [MORE]

Gut-on-a-Chip

Gut-on-a-Chip
The video embedded in this piece shows a very remarkable development from the Wyss Institute at Harvard: a microdevice [MORE]

IBM Launches Clinical Genomics in Italy

IBM Clinical Genomics
Not long after IBM’s “Watson” computer won the Jeopardy challenge, the machine’s adaptation to clinical medicine was [MORE]

Artificial Muscle from Carbon Nanotubes

Carbonnanotubes
Originating from a DARPA project, researchers at the University of Texas (Dallas) Nano Tech Institute have created hollow carbon [MORE]

Cell-Engineering for Drug Free Organ Transplants

Kidney transplant patients can take up to 25 drugs, every day for the rest of their lives, to suppress [MORE]

Contact Lenses Offering Wider Field of View

Innovega's Contact Lens
Ben Franklin figured out the advantage of bifocals in 1784, but it has taken more than two [MORE]

Listening to Pathogens

Nano Ear
Bacteria and viruses make faint sounds when they move—hard as that is to imagine.  To detect these acoustic [MORE]

Cloud-Based Remote Monitoring

While every teenager seems to hanker for the latest smart phone, millions of elders just want a simple phone-the [MORE]

An Ear Plug for Depression

Ear bud light
For good reason, the Finns know about seasonal affective disorders.  Their long, dark winters seem to create [MORE]

Printing 3D Bones

Replicate Bone
If you have to see something to believe it, be sure to check out the video at this [MORE]

Grandpa’s Smart Slippers

GTX Tracking Shoe
GTX Corp (Los Angeles, CA) has introduced a GPS tracking shoe designed for Alzheimer’s patients who [MORE]

New Material for Wearable Devices

If you’ve ever coached a youth sports team, it must have occurred to you how useful it would be [MORE]

Qualcomm’s Branch for Wireless Medical Devices

Qualcomm Life 2Net Ecosystem Graphic
Qualcomm has left the business of making cell phones and pursued ways for making them [MORE]

Moore’s Law in Your Ear

Spund Wave
Hearing aids are computers that you stick in your ear, and consequently, they reflect the computational features of [MORE]