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Briefs: Imaging
For disease diagnosis, a microchip maps the back of the eye.
Briefs: Communications
This electronic pill can relay diagnostic information or release drugs in response to smartphone commands.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
System Allows Diabetics to Monitor Blood Sugar Without Drawing Blood
The self-contained technology is similar to the smart watches that monitor heart rate.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The device can be used to pre-screen for the virus using gene-editing assays before those infected can travel and expose others.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This electronic skin can track heart rate, respiration, muscle movement, and other health data.
Briefs: Materials
This technology enables methane metabolism by yeast.
Blog: Materials
Parylene coatings are being used in the medical industry and even space. Our expert explains why.
News: Medical
A wireless, wearable monitor built with stretchable electronics could allow comfortable, long-term health monitoring of adults, babies, and small children without concern for skin...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The simulator could help in the development of new back braces.
Articles: Materials
Products include an aerosol scattering sensor; metal foam; and a new coated drug capsule.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Top prizes in the 2019 contest were awarded on November 8 in New York City.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Computed tomography is being used in the medical and industrial field. An expert explains how the two imaging techniques differ.
Briefs: Imaging
Camera Enables Surgeons to More Easily Identify Cancerous Tissue
Many surgeons rely on sight and touch to find cancerous tissue during surgery. Large hospitals or cancer treatment centers may also use experimental near-infrared fluorescent agents that bind to tumors so surgeons can see them on specialized displays. These machines are costly, making...
Facility Focus: Transportation
In recent decades, NSF-funded researchers have discovered quite a bit, including many of the fundamental particles of matter.
Briefs: Medical
X-ray Measurement Approach Could Improve CT Scanners
A new measurement approach could lead to a better way to calibrate computed tomography (CT) scanners, potentially streamlining patient treatment by improving communication among doctors.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Smart Electronic Skin for Robots and Prosthetics
Humans use the sense of touch to accomplish almost every daily task such as picking up a cup of coffee or shaking someone’s hand. Without it, humans can even lose their sense of balance when walking. Similarly, robots need to have a sense of touch in order to interact better with humans but robots...
Briefs: Materials
Researchers have developed a formula that enables them to recreate different levels of perceived softness. Based on the results from their experiments, they created equations that can calculate how soft...
Articles: Transportation
See the eight winners of the 2019 "Create the Future" Design Contest
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A transistor has been made from linen thread, enabling the creation of electronic devices made entirely of thin threads that could be woven into fabric, worn on the skin, or implanted...
Features: Medical
Learn more about ULISSES, an organ-preserving device that received top honors in the "Create the Future" Design Contest.
Features: Wearables
Learn more about the how "CSD" offers a cost-effective, non-invasive way of saving the lives of infants.
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The ULiSSES device preserves organs, without the ice chest.
Briefs: Medical
Researchers have 3D-printed an all-liquid device that, with the click of a button, can be repeatedly reconfigured on demand to serve a wide range of applications from making battery materials to screening drug...
Blog: Medical
Learn more about ULiSSES, a life-saving device for organ and limb transport.
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Along with flying and invisibility, high on the list of every child’s aspirational superpowers is the ability to see through or around walls or other visual obstacles. That...
Briefs: Medical
While different approaches have been used to create artificial muscles — including hydraulic systems, servomotors, shape-memory metals, and polymers that respond to stimuli — they all have limitations such as...
Briefs: Propulsion
Microrobots that can deliver drugs to specific spots inside the body while being monitored and controlled from outside the body have been developed that also can treat tumors in the...
5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Who
Ear infections are the most common reason that parents bring their children to a pediatrician, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Blog: Electronics & Computers
Tufts University engineers are making transistors from a material you’re more likely to see in a fabric store than in the field of electronics.
Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Engineers: Tech, Tools, and Gadgets
Blog: Power
Using Street Lamps as EV Chargers
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Materials
This Paint Can Cool Buildings Without Energy Input
Blog: Software
Quiz: Power
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