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Sensors woven into a shirt can monitor vital signs
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Sensors woven into a shirt can monitor vital signs

CAMBRIDGE, MA — MIT researchers have developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could be used to monitor vital signs such as temperature, respiration, and heart rate. The sensor-embedded garments, which are machine washable, can be customized to fit close to the body...

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Flaws in the original human genome reference

Buffalo gave us spicy wings and the ‘book of life.’ Here’s why that’s undermining personalized medicine The geneticists had high hopes of identifying the mutation that had caused the little boy’s abnormalities: a flattened face, cognitive delays, cleft palate, stubby thumbs, and a host of other skeletal malformations. They were pretty sure he had a...

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