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 […]
Sweat / Wearables
Silk patch measures 6 biomarkers in sweat
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 […]
Brain / Robotics
Remote, robotic surgery for aneurysm, stroke
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 […]
3-D Printing / Skin
3D printed skin, with blood vessels
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 […]
Brain
High resolution brain map traces wiring within, between, thalamus and cortex
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 […]
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November 14 – Harvard Medical School
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, […]