POSTS TAGGED AS Technology Review

Mapping Heart Activity with a Sensored Catheter

Multi-sensor Heart Catheter
A stretchable array of silicon sensors that detect temperature and electrical activity in the heart could be [MORE]

Micro-Pacemaker

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

Cancer Detection in an Hour

One-Hour Cancer Detection
Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Systems Biology have used magnetic nanoparticles, with attached protein ligands, [MORE]

Growing New Vertebrae

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

Implantable Device for Bariatric Medicine

Gastric Implant
“Abiliti” is the name of a implantable “gastric pacemaker” made by Intrapace, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) that is [MORE]

Wireless Implanted Heart Monitor

Wireless Heart Monitor
When congestive heart failure patients are admitted to a hospital they may have a catheter inserted into [MORE]

Nerve-Specific Fluorescent Probes

Visualizing Nerve Endings
One feature of patient individuality is that the person on the surgical table may not have his [MORE]

Growing Shelf-Stable Blood Vessels

Synthetic Blood Vessel
It’s a neat trick: seeding smooth muscle cells onto artificial scaffolding in the shape of a blood [MORE]

Open Innovation

Laser on a Chip – Innovation Award
UC-Berkeley business school professor Henry Chesbrough coined the term “open innovation” in his [MORE]

Screening by Sequencing

DNA sequencing to screen for disease
In January, Stephen Kingsmore, chief scientific officer for the National Human Genome Research Institute, [MORE]

Making Good Bacteria Better

Probiotics
The GI tract is a persistent battleground between organisms that benefit or harm the human host.  The notion that [MORE]

Microfluidics Chip for Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer Chip Caputers Cancer Cell (yellow)
Microfluidic chips that can capture cancer cells circulating in the blood have existed for [MORE]

Nanostructures for Drug Delivery

Nano Carriers for Drugs
One of the great unknowns about cancer is how metastasized cells, sometimes, can develop drug resistance, [MORE]

Genetic Cures Before Birth

Mouse Fetus
Hematopoietic stem cell transplants in utero have potential for “curing” genetic diseases before birth.  In 1995, Drs. Alan [MORE]