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Semi-Conductor Based Sequencing

Earlier this year, Tagline carried a story about “desktop sequencing” based on Ion Torrent’s semi-conductor approach which detects DNA [MORE]

“Homeplus” Virtual Grocery Shopping

It’s not surprising that hospitals are searching for ideas that create new revenue streams, in the face of declining [MORE]

24/7 BP Monitor

Sleep and Blood Pressure Have an Interesting Relationship. Normally, a person’s BP drops to its lowest level [MORE]

Nanopore Chip for DNA Sequencing

IBM may have pioneered nanopore technology, but other companies have advanced the field or found alternatives to faster DNA [MORE]

Social Acceptability of Medical Smart Cards

This is an interesting story about cultural contrasts.  In Europe, where identify cards have existed long enough for people [MORE]

“Quantified Self Confidence”

This wristwatch-like band from Basis Technology (San Fransciso, CA) monitors heart rate, calories burned, physical activity and sleep, [MORE]

Something You Might Not Notice: Invisibility Cloaks

Sometimes, invention is the mother of necessity.  In this case, researchers led by Professor John Rogers at the University [MORE]

Markers of Depression

Psychiatric disorders amply illustrate that “diseases” are intellectual artifacts which don’t exist naturally; the natural phenomenon is the mentally [MORE]

Apple’s iCloud

Earlier this month, Apple announced that it will include “cloud” communication capability in its new desktop and mobile operating [MORE]

$10m Prize for Mobile Medical Diagnostics

Last month, the X Prize Foundation (Playa Vista, CA) announced its $10m prize for a portable diagnostic device that [MORE]

Carbon Nanotubes Regenerate Heart Tissue

While regenerative medicine researchers work on growing new hearts from collagen scaffolds and induced pluripotent stem cells, engineers at [MORE]

Noninvasive Assessment of Brain Pressure

Intracranial pressure above 20 mmHg, as might happen from bleeding or swelling, often is a consequence of traumatic rain [MORE]

Plying the Blood-Brain Barrier with Ultrasound

Using a headset to beam low-intensity ultrasound over the entire brain, for an hour’s duration, Perfusion Technology (Andover, MA) [MORE]

Regenerative Medicine: Wound Healing

Regenerative medicine doesn’t always imply stem cell technologies. Researchers at Tufts University have found that synthesized peptides, based on [MORE]

Distance Monitoring of Sleep

Self monitoring for blood glucose, and self dosing for OTC medications are commonly practiced, so why not self experimentation [MORE]

Social Network Analysis for Epidemiology

Suppose an outbreak of a new antibiotic- resistant pathogen appeared in one place and then another, and onward from [MORE]

Mapping Heart Activity with a Sensored Catheter

A stretchable array of silicon sensors that detect temperature and electrical activity in the heart could be the catheter [MORE]

Micro-Pacemaker

Research in microelectronics are leading Medtronic to assemble the parts of a heart pacemaker-a circuit board, an oscillator, a [MORE]

Cancer Detection in an Hour

Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Systems Biology have used magnetic nanoparticles, with attached protein ligands, to detect [MORE]

Growing New Vertebrae

In another example of 3-D printing, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina printed a scaffolding of an [MORE]