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Flexible Electronic Sensing Patch Helps Diagnose Chronic Health Conditions

Tufts University engineers have developed the world’s first flexible electronic sensing patch that can be stitched into clothing to investigate a person’s sweat for numerous markers.

29 Jul 2020

Self-Powered Wearable Triboelectric Nanogenerators to Track Heart Health

An invention might change one of the most extensively used materials for biomedical applications into wearable devices that can help track cardiovascular health.

23 Jul 2020

Label-Free Nanosensing Technique Helps Detect Early Biomarkers of Cancer

A new technique developed by biomedical engineers from Duke University can be used to concurrently identify the presence of various specific microRNAs in RNA derived from tissue specimens and without the necessity for target amplification or labeling.

22 Jul 2020

Silicone Wristbands Help Measure Children’s Exposure to Harmful Chemicals

Globally, scores of kids do not reach their developmental potential and this can be partly attributed to higher rates of exposure to legacy and present-day pollutants.

21 Jul 2020

Lab-on-a-Chip Blood Type Testing Device Holds Potential for Emergency Use

A research team from Tokyo University of Science, Japan, has created a lab-on-a-chip device that can not only discover an individual's blood type within five minutes but also enable medical staff to read the results with simple visual inspections.

14 Jul 2020

Study Analyzes Using Pencils to Draw Bioelectronics on Skin

In the future, people could start tracking their health conditions just by taking a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin.

14 Jul 2020

Drive to Optimise Drug Delivery

Critical drug delivery errors are being driven out of medical practise by advancing intravenous (IV) medication delivery technologies with smart memories and optimised drive mechanisms.

From Sensor Technology Ltd 14 Jul 2020

Avacta and Integumen Plc Collaborate for Detection of SARS-COV-2 Coronavirus in Waste Water

Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaboration with Integumen plc (“Integumen”) to evaluate recently generated Affimer reagents that bind the SARS-COV-2 spike protein for the detection of the coronavirus in waste water, to provide a real-time alert system to warn of localised COVID-19 outbreaks.

From Avacta Group plc 13 Jul 2020

New Technology for Advanced Health Monitoring of Stroke Survivors

Group of biomedical engineers from biotech company Gruppo Fos Lithuania and researchers at Kaunas University of Technology and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences have patented technology for advanced health monitoring of stroke survivors.

10 Jul 2020

Novel Wearable Device Catches Early Signs, Symptoms Related to COVID-19

Although it might be tempting to rely on your fitness tracker to catch early signs of COVID-19, Northwestern University researchers caution that consumer wearables are not sophisticated enough to monitor the complicated illness.

2 Jul 2020