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Graphene Flagship’s Grapheal Raises €1.9 Million to Develop Biosensors and Fast Digital COVID Tests

Graphene Flagship associate member, Grapheal, receives investment for clinical studies to validate their technologies and accelerate time-to-market.

10 Mar 2021

Researchers Improve Efficiency of Flexible, Body Heat-Harvesting Health Monitor

Engineers from North Carolina State University have been constantly enhancing the efficiency of a wrist-worn flexible device that harnesses the heat energy from the human body to track health.

9 Mar 2021

World’s First Wearable Device to Measure Neonatal Jaundice and Vitals

Japanese scientists have designed the first-ever wearable devices to accurately monitor jaundice, a yellowing of the skin due to increased bilirubin levels in the blood that can result in severe medical conditions in infants.

5 Mar 2021

Purdue Research Foundation and IdentifySensors Biologics Partner to Develop COVID-19 Sensor

IdentifySensors Biologics, a Purdue University-affiliated technology firm developing a rapid diagnostic platform for detecting pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2, has entered into a new partnership with Purdue Research Foundation and will open an office in Purdue's Discovery Park District.

4 Mar 2021

New Bluetooth-Low-Energy-Based Wireless Neuronal Recording System

Scientists have now created a compact, lightweight, Bluetooth-low-energy-based wireless neuronal recording system.

3 Mar 2021

Rice Researchers Develop a Real-Time Sensor System to Detect Airborne COVID-19 Virus

Researchers at Rice University have received funding for up to $1 million to develop a real-time sensor system able to detect minute amounts of the airborne virus that causes COVID-19 infection.

23 Feb 2021

Study Tests Viability of Wristwatch to Prevent COVID-19 Transmission

Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have been recruiting health care workers to investigate whether a wearable device—a wristwatch—can capture real-time data that can be employed to alert wearers about slight physiological variations that may suggest they are infected with COVID-19.

18 Feb 2021

Smiths Detection’s BioFlash Shown to Detect Airborne COVID-19

Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security screening technologies, today reports that its BioFlash® Biological Identifier is capable of detecting SARS-CoV-2 in the air following tests conducted by the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).

From Smiths Detection 17 Feb 2021

Soft, Stretchy Skin Patch for Chemical Sensing and Blood Pressure Monitoring

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a soft, stretchy skin patch that can be worn on the neck to continuously track blood pressure and heart rate while measuring the wearer's levels of glucose as well as lactate, alcohol or caffeine.

16 Feb 2021

Ultra-Small Organic Sensors Help Estimate Temperature of Chemical Reactions

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) and their collaborators from Russian and foreign scientific centers have identified a new technique to predict the temperature of a chemical reaction stimulated by pseudo-particles—plasmons.

16 Feb 2021