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Personalized 3D-Printed Wearables with Wireless Power Transfer, Compact Energy Storage

Wearable sensors to track a range of things from step count to heart rate are nearly everywhere. But for situations such as quickly diagnosing fatal diseases, testing the effectiveness of new drugs, computing the beginning of frailty in older adults, or monitoring a professional athlete’s performance, medical-grade devices are necessary.

11 Oct 2021

Ear Sensors Help Enhance Safety for COVID-19 Patients in Home Isolation

Using telemedicine, COVID-19 patients can be cared for safely at home – from initial home isolation to recovery or, in case problems arise, admission to hospital.

8 Oct 2021

New, Low-Cost Sensor Could Detect a Heart Attack in Less Than 30 Minutes

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Florida have developed a sensor that could diagnose a heart attack in less than 30 minutes, according to a study published in Lab on a Chip.

4 Oct 2021

Tootsie Roll Candy Used to Develop an Inexpensive Sensor for Monitoring Health

Single-use diagnostic tests often aren't practical for health professionals or patients in resource-limited areas, where cost and waste disposal are big concerns.

30 Sep 2021

Phone Sensor Data Proves Effective in Detecting Cannabis Intoxication

A smartphone sensor similar to the one applied in GPS systems could have the potential to determine intoxication in people, following marijuana consumption.

27 Sep 2021

Novel DNA Sensor can Detect Infectious Viruses in Minutes

A new sensor can detect not only whether a virus is present, but whether it's infectious – an important distinction for containing viral spread.

23 Sep 2021

Researchers Develop Biosensors to Measure Antibiotics in Mammals

A group of biotechnologists and engineers from the University of Freiburg demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to determine the concentration of antibiotics in the body of mammals using breath samples.

22 Sep 2021

Wearable Devices Help Identify Resilience of Health Care Workers During Pandemic

A new study reports that health care workers who exhibited strong emotional support or high resilience were protected against the impacts of stress associated with the COVID-19 pandemic than those who had low emotional support or resilience.

14 Sep 2021

SMART Researchers Design Novel Sensors to Detect Plant Hormones

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore and their local collaborators from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed the first ever nanosensor to enable rapid testing of synthetic auxin plant hormones.

2 Sep 2021

New Portable Sensor Could Allow Fast Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury

A researcher from the University of Massachusetts Amherst received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a portable optical sensor system for a medic or layperson to rapidly diagnose the severity of a brain injury in the field using a single drop of blood.

27 Aug 2021