Connie Lehman — Professor, Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Chief of Breast Imaging, radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Co-director of AVON Breast Center, Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital; and Director, Breast Imaging Research Center, Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital spoke at ApplySci’s recent conference at Harvard Medical School. Click to listen to her talk on using AI to discover breast cancer 5 years […]
3-D Printing / Featured / Sensors
3D-printed, remote-controlled lab on chip for quicker, more accurate monitoring
Imperial College’s Martyn Boutelle has developed a 3D printed, remote-controlled Lab on a Chip for real-time monitoring with improved personal care. Previous ‘Lab on a Chip’ devices have required large external support systems. Sensor deterioration over time inhibited their clinical effectiveness. The device can monitor chemical fluctuations, giving quicker and more accurate results, and potentially […]
Featured / Sensors
Stretchable, degradable semiconductors for health monitoring
Zhenan Bao has developed stretchable, degradable semiconductors, with the ability to conform to internal organ surfaces, and dissolve and disappear when no longer needed. This is the first example of a material that simultaneously possesses the three qualities of semiconductivity, intrinsic stretchability and full degradability. Other attempts resulted in semiconductors that either did not break down […]
Sensors / Sweat / Wearables
Sweat sensor monitors metabolites to detect gout, metabolic and other disorders
Caltech’s Wei Gao has developed a wearable sensor that monitors metabolites and nutrients in blood by analyzing sweat. Previously developed, less sensitive, sweat sensors mostly target electrolytes, glucose, and lactate. Gao develops devices based on microfluidics, which minimize the influence of sweat evaporation and skin contamination on sensing accuracy. Previous microfluidic-based wearable sensors were mostly fabricated with a […]
Sensors / Virtual Reality / Wearables
Wireless, wearable sticker adds a sense of touch to VR
John Rogers, Yonggang Huang and Northwestern colleagues have developed an “epidermal VR” system that adds a sense of touch to any virtual reality experience. The device incorporates a distributed array of 32 individually programmable, millimeter-scale actuators, each of which generates a discrete sense of touch at a corresponding location on the skin. Each resonates most strongly […]
Brain / Ultrasound
Study: Focused ultrasound reduced essential tremor symptoms for 3 years
In a recent study, Casey Halpern and colleagues used ultrasound to relieve symptoms of essential tremor, for up to three years. The treatment is used when medication does not work. 76 people with an average age of 71 who had essential tremor for an average of 17 years were studied. 56 received focused ultrasound thalamotomy, and […]