by John Hewitt , Medical Xpress In a recent paper in the journal Heart Rhythm, doctors describe how they turned off the potentially life-saving cardiac defibrillator function of an implanted Medtronic device simply by holding an iPhone 12 near it. The authors had nothing personal against Medtronic, or for that matter, against the new iPhone. The...
JANUARY 7TH, 2021 MEDGADGET EDITORS Strados Labs, a company based in Philadelphia, PA, but with R&D offices in Atlanta, GA, won FDA clearance to introduce its RESP system for monitoring lung sounds. The RESP device has already been employed in clinical trials to help monitor how various therapies, patient reports, and other vital signs correlate with changes in...
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY IMAGE: DR. SUNG II PARK’S PADDLE-SHAPED DEVICE CONSISTS OF A HARVESTOR THAT CONTAINS MICROCHIPS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION. THE HARVESTOR ALSO PRODUCES CURRENTS TO POWER LEDS INSERTED NEAR THE END OF THE SHAFT CREDIT: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Gastric bypass surgery is sometimes the last resort for those who struggle with...
BY VICTOR TANGERMANN / 18 HOURS AGO Israeli biotech company Nano care says it’s created a gun that can spin out “Spider-Man”-like webs that can cover burns and wounds, The Guardian reports. The artificial skin being shot out of the company’s “Spincare Portable Wound System” allows patients to move around and shower, unlike bandages. It even allows health...
By Ben Coxworth December 30, 2020 Implanted into a phantom brain (left), the device successfully delivered light and a blue dye (right)Anikeeva LabVIEW 1 IMAGES When taken orally or intravenously, medications typically travel throughout the body, producing unwanted side effects. MIT scientists are working on an alternative, that delivers both light and a light-activated drug...
Parkinson’s Disease is an incurable neurodegenerative disease, one of the most common causes of dementia and disability in the later years of life. Parkinson’s disease affects millions of people in the world, but its progression is not always the same. Now scientists at UCL and Birkbeck, University of London have developed an app, which allows...
by Andrew Myers, Stanford University The RT-ELISA prototype consists of three modules: in the first (bottom), blood from the subject is mixed with a solution containing beads of target protein-detecting probes and fluorescent detection antibodies. The second module (top-right) eliminates excess blood cells. And the third module (top-left), transfers the fluorescently labeled beads to a detection...
A new molecular probe from Stanford University could help reveal how our brains think and remember. This tool, called Fast Light and Calcium-Regulated Expression or FLiCRE (pronounced “flicker”), can be sent inside any cell to perform a variety of research tasks, including tagging, recording and controlling cellular functions. “This work gets at a central goal...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Three-dimensional schematic of the CNN–nanoparticle-enabled smartphone for virus detection. The detection process comprises three main steps. (A) Virus capture and labeling using Pt-nanoprobes. The samples are loaded into microchips modified with mAbs against the virus envelope protein and incubated to allow the capture of target virus for 20 min....
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH (TUM) IMAGE: PROF. GORDON CHENG WHATS TO DIG DEEPER INTO UNDERSTANDING HOW THE BRAIN FUNCTIONS CREDIT: ASTRID ECKERT / TUM Combining neuroscience and robotic research has gained impressive results in the rehabilitation of paraplegic patients. A research team led by Prof. Gordon Cheng from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) was...
