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Newly Developed Graphene Biosensor Could Provide Early Lung Cancer Diagnosis

Graphene, a wonder material, could be the solution to unraveling the next generation of advanced, early-stage lung cancer diagnosis.

5 Feb 2019

Researchers Create Stretchable, Multi-Functional Fiber for Strain Sensing and Energy Harvesting Applications

It has been predicted that fiber-based electronics will play an important role in sophisticated wearable electronics.

1 Feb 2019

MIT Researchers Develop Ingestible, Jell-O-Like Pill to Monitor the Stomach for a Month

A team of engineers at MIT have developed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the stomach, rapidly swells to the size of a soft, squishy ping-pong ball large enough to stay in the stomach for a prolonged period of time.

31 Jan 2019

Wearable Sensor for Detecting Hidden Anxiety, Depression in Young Children

Depression and anxiety are shockingly common among young children—as many as one-in-five kids suffer from one of them, starting as early as the preschool years.

17 Jan 2019

Maxim Launches First-of-a-Kind Biosensor Module Integrating PPG and ECG Sensor in a Compact Design

Currently, designers have come up with a simpler way to offer photoplethysmogram (PPG) as well as electrocardiogram (ECG) measurements for health monitoring from a mobile, battery-powered device.

10 Jan 2019

New Highly Sensitive Sensor with Gold Nanoparticle Array

Physicists from the University of Bath have designed a new type of sensor platform using a gold nanoparticle array that is a 100 times more sensitive than existing similar sensors.

10 Jan 2019

Stanford Team Builds Wireless, Battery-Free, Biodegradable Blood Flow Sensor

Stanford University scientists have developed a new device that could help doctors to easily monitor the success of blood vessel surgery.

9 Jan 2019

New Wearable Microfluidic Sensor Measures Skin pH Levels

At the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), L'Oréal has launched a prototype of the new innovation from the L'Oréal Technology Incubator.

7 Jan 2019

A New Blood-Sugar Monitor for Diabetics Could Be Virtually Painless

Scientists in Sweden are designing a more comfortable and reliable blood-sugar monitoring system for people with diabetes. After fruitfully testing a prototype of a microneedle patch on a human subject, the completion of a system for clinical tests is currently in progress.

4 Jan 2019

BBI’s SEM Scanner Receives FDA De Novo Marketing Authorisation for First-of-its-Kind Device for Objectively Assessing Patients at Risk of Pressure Ulcers

Bruin Biometrics, LLC (“BBI”) has been granted U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) marketing authorisation for the SEM Scanner, becoming the world’s first FDA-authorised device to objectively alert clinicians to specific anatomical areas of a patient’s body at increased risk for developing pressure damage.

From Bruin Biometrics, LLC 4 Jan 2019