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Intel’s “Curie” Chip for Wearables

Intel Wearable
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, Intel announced its dime-sized “Curie” chip that could change [MORE]

Monitoring Sleep Apnea with a Smart Phone

Smartphone-app-for-Sleep-Apnea
Sleep apnea is nothing to snore over. It can be debilitating by itself, as well as indicating other issues like [MORE]

Who Gets Credit for CRISPR?

CRISPR_DNA April 15 2014
CRISPR-Cas 9 is a DNA editing technology that may prove to be the medical discovery of the [MORE]

You’re a “Knockout!”

Regeneron Biorepository of Knockouts
In 2007, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three scientists (Oliver Smithies, Martin Evans, [MORE]

Printed Diagnostics

Paper-Based Diagnostics for Ebola
A researcher at Boston University has printed single strands of DNA onto a specially treated paper substrate. [MORE]

Perspective on Data-Driven Healthcare

Data Driven Healthcare
Hippocrates would have understood the concept of “data-driven healthcare, but neither he nor most people before the last [MORE]

Kidney Structures from 3-D Printing

3D Printed Capillaries
Printing organs does not appear to be on the near term horizon, but persistently 3-D printing is moving [MORE]

Tiny Accelerometers

Accelerometers
Spanning less than one millimeter across, a new accelerometer from mCube (San Jose, CA) offers new potential to wearable monitors, [MORE]

The Sequencer in Your Pocket

minION DNA Sequencer
This device, the “MinIon” from Oxford Nanopore in Britain, does not appear to be ready for “prime time,” [MORE]

Vital Signs Tracking via Earbuds to Smartphone

Earbuds Capture Heart Rate
By putting an infrared optical emitter, photodetector and accelerometer into an earbud, a Raleigh, NC company, Valencell, [MORE]

Identifying Oligos with Terahertz Waves

Oligonucleotide
Micro RNAs are hot right now.  They either inhibit or enhance DNA replication by opening up or winding shut DNA [MORE]

Vision Correcting Display Technology

Vision Correcting Display
Desktops, laptops, tablets, smart phones and tv’s are common electronics in every hospital, and many users, whether they [MORE]

Remote Controlled Microchip for Contraception

MicroCHIPS Contraceptive Drug Dispenser

MicroCHIPS (Lexington, MA) anticipates its new remote control microchip reaching the market in 2018.  Here’s how [MORE]

First Pre-Natal Genome Sequencing

Baby Genome
Earlier this year a California man was able to have his son’s genome sequenced and interpreted before the boy [MORE]