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Predictive Health Forecasting

It is fairly common that a physician sees a patient and has no access to that person’s prior medical [MORE]

Smaller, Cheaper Sequencer

Electrical Signals from DNA Nano Sequencer
Technical developments in DNA sequencing tend to have a “forward-looking” character that some might [MORE]

Proton-Based Body Sensors

Proton Transistor
Electrical devices rely on electrons for signaling; biological systems signal through ions and protons, which prompted University of [MORE]

Google-Earth View of Bladder’s Interior

University of Washington Bladder Scope
Saying that he wants to give urologists “a Google Earth view of the bladder, University [MORE]

Implantable Brain Prosthetic

eberhard Fetz, PhD
Stroke victims who lose their speech ability, but eventually regain it, illustrate the brain’s plasticity in recovering [MORE]

Electronic Contact Lens

Contact Lens Sensimed-Triggerfish
Indeed, the eye may be the window on health.  Two recent developments illustrate how engineers are building [MORE]

“Smart” Kitchen Countertops

Smart Countertop
It doesn’t take much imagination to see how this “smart” kitchen countertop, developed at Intel Labs Seattle, could [MORE]

Electronic Contact Lens

Electronic Contact Lens
Electrical engineering professor Babak Parviz, at the University of Washington/Seattle, has developed a prototype bionic eye-or, at [MORE]

Telesurgical Robots

Using software developed by the University of Washington’s Biorobotics Lab and SRI, operators at nine different locations (in the US, [MORE]