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Stanford Team Builds Wireless, Battery-Free, Biodegradable Blood Flow Sensor

Stanford University scientists have developed a new device that could help doctors to easily monitor the success of blood vessel surgery.

9 Jan 2019

New Wearable Microfluidic Sensor Measures Skin pH Levels

At the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), L'Oréal has launched a prototype of the new innovation from the L'Oréal Technology Incubator.

7 Jan 2019

A New Blood-Sugar Monitor for Diabetics Could Be Virtually Painless

Scientists in Sweden are designing a more comfortable and reliable blood-sugar monitoring system for people with diabetes. After fruitfully testing a prototype of a microneedle patch on a human subject, the completion of a system for clinical tests is currently in progress.

4 Jan 2019

BBI’s SEM Scanner Receives FDA De Novo Marketing Authorisation for First-of-its-Kind Device for Objectively Assessing Patients at Risk of Pressure Ulcers

Bruin Biometrics, LLC (“BBI”) has been granted U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) marketing authorisation for the SEM Scanner, becoming the world’s first FDA-authorised device to objectively alert clinicians to specific anatomical areas of a patient’s body at increased risk for developing pressure damage.

From Bruin Biometrics, LLC 4 Jan 2019

Wireless and Autonomous Neurostimulator Shows Promise for Treating Neurological Disorders

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have developed a novel neurostimulator that can simultaneously listen to and trigger electric current in the brain, possibly delivering optimized treatments to patients suffering from diseases like Parkinson’s and epilepsy.

2 Jan 2019

New Biocompatible Sensor Shows Promise for Use in Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and Virtual Reality

Cognitive and neuromotor developmental disabilities are common in children who are born prematurely. Therefore, catching those disabilities early through a series of motor and cognitive tests is the best way to minimize their impact.

24 Dec 2018

UC Researcher Receives Key Device Patent for Wearable Sweat Sensor

The advanced sweat sensor company, Eccrine Systems, Inc., has announced that Dr Jason Heikenfeld, Co-Founder and CSO, and also a renowned researcher at the University of Cincinnati (UC), has received a major patent, US10136831.

19 Dec 2018

Researchers Design Ingestible Capsule that Releases Drugs in Response to Smartphone Commands

A novel ingestible capsule that can be controlled through Bluetooth wireless technology has been designed by researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

14 Dec 2018

New Sensors Could Help Detect Cancer in the Human Body

A new and novel class of nanomaterials could help improve cancer detection, believes a physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University.

11 Dec 2018