Herman’s team has fabricated a transparent biosensor that could be embedded into a disposable contact lens to monitor blood glucose using FETs with nanostructured IGZ networks as a sensing transducer.
By Benedette Cuffari
7 Apr 2017
Scientists at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC’s) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have recently developed a new flexible sensor which has a potential for the development of foldable tough screens.
By Benedette Cuffari
28 Mar 2017
This predictive model allowed researchers to more fully understand how the protein forms and adjusts to different pH levels, in which this information has been speculated to guide designs for sensor and soft robot devices1.
By Benedette Cuffari
24 Mar 2017
CM Senior Systems Scientist George Kantor is part of the multidisciplinary research endeavor FarmView, whose primary goal is the sustained improvement...
By Benedette Cuffari
23 Mar 2017
Nerve cells, otherwise known as neurons, are the basic structural and functional units of the nervous system.
By Benedette Cuffari
9 Mar 2017
Ultrasound is one the most widely used non-invasive methods to examine internal and external structures.
By Liam Critchley
7 Mar 2017
Researchers at MIT have developed sensitive dopamine sensors using SWCNTs to solve this problem. Michael Strano’s lab constructed a nanosensor by homogeneously coating SWCNTs on a silane glass, in which the sensor was then wrapped with polymers of specific single-stranded DNA nucleotide sequence...
By Benedette Cuffari
16 Feb 2017
The Internet of Things (IoT) are connected devices, often involving sensors, and they are going to change healthcare for the better - although this does raise concerns about privacy and security.
By Kimberly Lawson
24 May 2016
In order for an artificial limb to work, it needs to be able to detect information and send a message to the brain that it can understand.
By Brett Smith
23 May 2016
When it comes to “seeing” the road, driverless cars currently in development are based on one of two systems: LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) and optical camera sensors.
By Brett Smith
18 May 2016