Category: New products
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Faster Process Devised for Skin-Patch Sensors
29 October 2015. Engineers at University of California in San Diego developed a process that simplifies production of flexible electronic sensors worn on the skin for medical diagnostics. The team from the lab of bioengineering professor Todd Coleman published its findings in a recent issue of the journal Sensors. The UC-San Diego team was seeking…
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Heart-Powered Leadless Pacemaker in Development
28 October 2015. A heart pacemaker — the device regulating heartbeats of people with slow or irregular heart rhythms — is being designed to draw power from the beating heart itself and work with next-generation devices that operate inside the heart without wires or leads. Engineers from University at Buffalo in New York, in the…
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Mobile App Collecting Placenta Health Data
27 October 2015. A new iPhone app allows women to report on the health of their placentas as their pregnancies develop, in a research study of placenta health to help reduce fetal death. The app is designed by researcher Harvey Kliman at Yale University medical school, director of the school’s reproductive and placental research unit.…
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Two Current Drugs Shown Also to Promote Hair Growth
23 October 2015. Research originally designed to study hair loss from an autoimmune disorder, uncovered two drugs now on the market that in lab tests show they may also regrow hair. Findings of the study led by molecular dermatology professor Angela Christiano at Columbia University in New York appear in today’s issue of the journal…
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Gene Editing Boosts Red Blood Cell Output in Lab
23 October 2015. A research team developed a technique with stem cells and gene editing to increase lab production of red blood cells by 3 times, a process that could help people with rare blood types needing transfusions. The researchers led by pediatrics professor Vijay Sankaran at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School published…
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Delivery Technique Devised to Cross Blood-Brain Barrier
21 October 2015. Medical researchers developed a technique that allows drugs for treating neurological disorders to penetrate the blood-brain barrier, a difficult obstacle up to now. The team led by ear, nose, and throat, or ENT, specialist Benjamin Bleier at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital and Harvard Medical School described its methods with lab mice…
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Universal Wireless Charging Device Designed
14 October 2015. Engineering researchers designed a prototype device that can simultaneously charge mobile phones compatible with leading wireless charging specifications. Dukju Ahn and Patrick Mercier at University of California in San Diego describe their device in a recent issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (paid subscription required). Wireless charging of mobile devices…
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Study Shows Blood Test Finds Early Pancreatic Cancer
12 October 2015. An evaluation of a blood test to find early stages of pancreatic cancer showed the test successfully identified early-stage cancer in the vast majority of study participants with the disease. The findings published by a team from diagnostics company VolitionRx in Belgium and Lund University in Sweden appeared last week in the…
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Chip Device in Development to Simulate Human Gut
9 October 2015. A team of medical researchers and engineers in North Carolina is developing a miniaturized device derived from human stem cells to better simulate the workings of a human gut. The five-year project is funded by $5.3 million grant from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of National Institutes…
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iPhone App Capturing Hepatitis C Research Data
5 October 2015. An app made for the Apple iPhone now allows people with hepatitis C to record real-world data on their experiences with treatments and living with the disease. The C-Tracker app, developed by Boston Children’s Hospital, is available as a free download from the iPhone App Store. Hepatitis C is a viral infection affecting…