DIGITAL HEALTH + NEUROTECH
Wenya He, Yingying Zhang, and Tsinghua and Northwest School colleagues have developed a silk-based wearable patch which measures glucose, ascorbic acid, lactate, potassium, sodium ions and uric acid concentrations in sweat. Sensors are embedded in a woven graphite-silk fabric. Conductivity is enhanced using graphite doped with nitrogen atoms. The flexible patch is applied to the […]
Vitor Mendes Pereira at Toronto Western Hospital and Krembil Brain Institute .used a Siemens Healthineers-developed robot arm to help remove an aneurysm. A catheter was guided to the patient’s brain from an incision made near the groin in the interventional procedure. The CorPath GRX robotics platform is controlled by joysticks and a touchscreen. A bedside technician […]
Pankaj Karande and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute colleagues have developed 3D printed living skin, with blood vessels. which could integrate with host cells in grafts. Until now, a significant barrier to integration has been the absence of a functioning vascular system. Karande previously made two types of living human cells into “bio-inks,” and print them into a skin-like […]
Allen Institute scientists have created a high-resolution brain map, which traces thousands of connections between brain areas in mice, which they believe can help us understand how brain circuitry changes in diseases and disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. This is the most detailed map of connections in a mammalian brain to date, tracing neural […]
Join ApplySci at the 12th Wearable Tech + Digital Health + Neurotech Boston conference on November 14, 2019 at Harvard Medical School featuring talks by Brad Ringeisen, DARPA – Joe Wang, UCSD – Carlos Pena, FDA – George Church, Harvard – Diane Chan, MIT – Giovanni Traverso, Harvard | Brigham & Womens – Anupam Goel, UnitedHealthcare – Nathan Intrator, […]
UCSD’s Joe Wang has developed a soft, flexible, pacifier-based biosensor that continuously monitors glucose levels in saliva to detect diabetes in babies. Until now, continuous glucose monitoring in newborns, available only in major hospitals, requires piercing the infant’s skin to reach interstitial fluid. The team created a proof of concept pacifier where small amounts of saliva […]
Join ApplySci at the 12th Wearable Tech + Digital Health + Neurotech Boston conference on November 14, 2019 at Harvard Medical School featuring talks by Brad Ringeisen, DARPA – Joe Wang, UCSD – Carlos Pena, FDA – George Church, Harvard – Diane Chan, MIT – Giovanni Traverso, Harvard | Brigham & Womens – Anupam Goel, UnitedHealthcare – Nathan Intrator, […]
Stanford’s Sanjiv Gambhir has developed an imaging molecule that can identify pancreatic, cervical and lung cancer early– and, surprisigly, hard-to-detect idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The tracer clings to integrin alpha-v beta-6. In a PET scan, the tracer glows due to radioactivity emissions, which allows doctors to see exactly where the tracer is docked in the body. A […]
NINDS researcher Lawrence Latour has used an advanced imaging method to detect vascular microbleeds after head injury. The lesions, which are too small to be detected by CT, may predict worse outcomes. 439 head injury patients who were treated in the emergency department were studied. MRI scans within 48 hours of injury, and again […]
Stanford’s Hongjie Dai has developed a deep-tissue imaging technique that clearly illuminates tumors beneath the skin. It relies on nanoparticles containing erbium, which glows in the infrared. The promising technology has only been tested on mice, so far. In a study, the technique was used to predict cancer patient response to immunotherapy, and to measure drug […]