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New Sensor Could Dramatically Speed Up Sepsis Diagnosis

MIT researchers have created an innovative sensor that can remarkably speed up the process of diagnosing sepsis, a major cause of death in the U.S. hospitals and kills almost 250,000 patients every year.

24 Jul 2019

Prosthetics: For the First Time, Sensors Have Been Implanted for Wireless Control of Muscle Signal Transmission Following Nerve Transfers

Research in the field of wireless biosignal transmission is no longer a fringe phenomenon in the field of modern prosthetics.

19 Jul 2019

Dermal Tattoo Sensors to Detect Variation in Blood pH and Metabolite Levels

The art of tattooing may well enter the field of medical diagnosis. Researchers in Germany have designed permanent dermal sensors that can be applied as artistic tattoos.

19 Jul 2019

AI and Biosensors Developed to Determine Whether Targeted Chemotherapy Works

Rutgers scientists have developed a device that can establish whether targeted chemotherapy drugs are having its desired effect on cancer patients.

18 Jul 2019

Stanford Team Develops Autofocals with Eye-Tracking Sensor Technology

Presbyopia is one of life’s guarantees like death and taxes. This vision defect begins to plague people nearing the age of 45, as the lenses in the eyes lose the elasticity required to focus on objects that are close at hand.

1 Jul 2019

LamdaGen and Arisan Therapeutics Receive a $2 Million NIH SBIR Phase II Grant to Develop a Dual Rapid Point-of-Care Test for Acute Dengue and Zika Viral Infections

LamdaGen Corporation and Arisan Therapeutics announced today they will share a $2 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a high-sensitivity point-of-care (POC) dual diagnostic to detect both acute dengue and Zika viral infections in a single rapid test on LamdaGen’s L’AuRa digital diagnostic platform.

From LamdaGen Corporation 28 Jun 2019