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Researchers Develop Biosensors to Measure Antibiotics in Mammals

A group of biotechnologists and engineers from the University of Freiburg demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to determine the concentration of antibiotics in the body of mammals using breath samples.

22 Sep 2021

Wearable Devices Help Identify Resilience of Health Care Workers During Pandemic

A new study reports that health care workers who exhibited strong emotional support or high resilience were protected against the impacts of stress associated with the COVID-19 pandemic than those who had low emotional support or resilience.

14 Sep 2021

SMART Researchers Design Novel Sensors to Detect Plant Hormones

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore and their local collaborators from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed the first ever nanosensor to enable rapid testing of synthetic auxin plant hormones.

2 Sep 2021

New Portable Sensor Could Allow Fast Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury

A researcher from the University of Massachusetts Amherst received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a portable optical sensor system for a medic or layperson to rapidly diagnose the severity of a brain injury in the field using a single drop of blood.

27 Aug 2021

Baby Detector Software Embedded in Digital Camera Rivals ECG

University of South Australia researchers have designed a computer vision system that can automatically detect a tiny baby’s face in a hospital bed and remotely monitor its vital signs from a digital camera with the same accuracy as an electrocardiogram machine.

25 Aug 2021

Novel Nano-Biosupercapacitor can Operate a Sensor System for Measuring the pH Value in Blood

The miniaturization of microelectronic sensor technology, microelectronic robots or intravascular implants is progressing rapidly.

24 Aug 2021

New Self-Powered Diaper Sensors Could Help Prevent Diabetes and Simplify Patient Care

Thanks to science and modern medicine, we know a lot more now about the early signs of certain diseases and which biomarkers to check.

24 Aug 2021

Liquid Metal Antennas with High Wireless Powering Efficiency for Biological Use

New battery-free and wirelessly powered electronic devices find applications in advanced medicine and healthcare. But such electronic devices interfaced with biological tissues need to possess an antenna for wireless communication and energy transfer.

23 Aug 2021

Genetic Modification Used as Biosensor for Antibody-Based Medical Diagnostics

Scientists have adapted the genetic modification technology CRISPR to identify antibodies in blood samples from patients in an attempt to encourage new grades of medical diagnostics along with a series of other applications.

16 Aug 2021