At KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, researchers have developed a new breath sensor that uses protein-encapsulated nanocatalysts to spot certain biomarkers of diseases. While the breath can hold a lot of information about what’s going on inside the body, the variety of gasses present and the la (Read more...)
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Breathable, Flexible Electronics Allow Long Term On-Skin Health Monitoring
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At the University of Tokyo in Japan researchers have developed a new method of producing stretchable electronics that are breathable, don’t irritate the skin, and weigh next to nothing. The development may lead to ubiquitous use of on-skin electronic sensors to monitor the body continuously in a variety of places and ways. The research team [ (Read more...)
New Imaging Technique Provides Molecular Orientation in Samples to Help Study Neuro Diseases
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A team of French scientists has developed a high speed imaging technique that provides them an unprecedented view of the chemical nature of biological samples. Not only does it provide an analysis of the chemical content, it also provides information about the orientation of the molecules detected. The newly available perspective of the molecular d (Read more...)
Sepsis-Detecting Point-of-Care Microfluidic Chip Developed
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Sepsis is common and often deadly. Early detection of sepsis can be incredibly useful in preventing its full onset by allowing in-time administration of antibiotics. A couple of biomarkers of oncoming sepsis is leukocyte count and neutrophil 64 (CD64), a neutrophil surface antigen. Researchers at the University of Illinois have now reported in jour (Read more...)
Fluorescing Bandage Senses Wound’s Healing Process
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Bandages used to treat chronic wounds present a host of challenges, particularly when they’re removed to examine and clean a wound. While this is necessary, the process can be very painful for the patient, difficult on the clinician, and the wound may become infected due to being exposed. A team of researchers from Swiss Federal Laborato (Read more...)
Genetically Engineered Baker’s Yeast Detects Variety of Fungal Pathogens
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Researchers at Columbia University have developed a cheap and easy to use fungal pathogen sensor based on store bought baker’s yeast. Currently available methods for detecting specific fungi involve expensive equipment, the use of refrigeration, and trained personnel. Using the team’s technique may result in cheap, readily available tes (Read more...)
Tiny Barometric Sensor to Detect Presence of Disease Biomarkers
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Researchers from Jinan University in Guangzhou, China and Washington State University have developed a novel type of sensor that works by measuring pressure changes induced by the production of oxygen (O2). The technology may miniaturize and make readily available testing of a wide variety of biomarkers. The team of researchers has already demonstr (Read more...)
Videssa Breast Blood Diagnostic Test for Breast Cancer
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Provista Diagnostics, a company based in New York City, has developed the Videssa Breast blood-based proteomic test to detect breast cancer. At present, after an abnormal mammogram doctors are faced with a difficult decision: whether to carry out an invasive biopsy or not. “When a mammogram yields an abnormal result, the challenge for ev (Read more...)
Nitrite Sensor to Help Asthmatics Detect Onset of Airway Inflammation
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The presence of relatively high concentrations of nitrite (NO2−) in exhaled breath may be indicative of the presence of inflammatory processes within the airways, and so measuring it may be an effective way of performing early detection of the onset of the symptoms of asthma and other respiratory conditions. Devices that are able to measure [ (Read more...)
Optoacoustics May Allow Surgeons See Tumor Margins for Accurate Excisions
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While doctors have gotten pretty good at finding and excising tumors, identifying whether they have been removed in their entirety remains a challenge. Histology slides are today’s standard, but processing the tissue, freezing, slicing it, staining, imaging, and analysis take much too long. Patients are often sent home, only to find out later (Read more...)
Small, Cheap, Disposable Sensors for Detecting Organic Volatile Compounds in Breath
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At the University of Illinois, researchers have developed small, extremely sensitive detectors of volatile organic compounds, seemingly capable of sensing such chemicals at concentrations even our noses can’t detect. While there are a lot of applications for such technology in medicine and other fields, the researchers chose to detect am (Read more...)
Non-Contact Respiratory Rate Sensor Built Into a Cotton T-Shirt
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At the Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada, researchers have developed a respiration sensor built into a t-shirt that can be sampled by a nearby radio device. The idea is that patients in a hospital would wear a lightweight, comfortable shirt that doesn’t have any wires, while their breathing rate would be discreetly moni (Read more...)
Introducing Loop Vital Signs Wearable Monitor from SpryHealth
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SpryHealth, previously Echo Labs, is announcing the launch of Loop, a clinical-grade wearable designed to enable improved health outcomes through continuous vital sign monitoring and early detection of clinical deterioration. SpryHealth was founded by Pierre-Jean “PJ” Cobut and Elad Ferber out of the Stanford Graduate School o (Read more...)
Multi-Modality Imaging Probe to Diagnose Cancer Inside Body, Help Avoid Biopsies
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These days, identifying cancerous tissue within the body requires a biopsy and a review of the extracted sample in a pathology lab. A team of German scientists have been working toward a way of spotting tumors using an endoscopic approach that doesn’t involve actually having to take samples. They’ve developed a multi-modality laser-base (Read more...)
Disposable Sensor Measures Sweat Volume, Salinity to Help Prevent Dehydration
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At the South by Southwest (SXSW) event in Austin, Texas this week, the National Kidney Foundation has partnered with materials researchers to show off a sweat-monitoring patch as a way to raise awareness of staying hydrated. Developed at the laboratory of John Rogers, now at Northwestern University, who has been a pioneer of flexible electroni (Read more...)
New Smart Sensor for Measuring Glucose from Skin
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The sweat excreted by our skin contains small amounts of glucose that correlate with the concentration of glucose in the blood. Various technical challenges, such as small sample volume, temperature differences, and movement of the skin, have prevented sweat-based glucometry beyond the research lab. Scientists at the Institute for Basic Scienc (Read more...)
Koogeek S1 Smart Health Scale Review
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Koogeek sent us another device from its line of IoT products to review. The Koogeek S1 Smart Health Scale comes as one of the lower-costing digital connected scales on the market. It takes eight measurements: weight, body mass index (BMI), fat mass, lean mass, total body water, bone mass, visceral fat, and basal metabolic rate (BMR). It [ (Read more...)
New Technique Spots Pheomelanin in Pale Patients at Risk of Dangerous Melanoma
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People with light colored skin, and particularly orange tinted redheads, have high levels of pheomelanin, a type of melanin, in their skin. It is correlated with amelanotic melanoma, a nasty skin cancer that’s difficult not only to treat, but to detect in the first place. This is because pheomelanin within amelanotic melanomas blend (Read more...)
Lasers Measure Cells’ Stiffness to Identify Neoplastic Ones
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Unusual softness or stiffness is often an indicator of the presence of cancer in what otherwise may look like healthy tissue. There are already devices on the market that feel how elastic a given tissue is, but they come in contact and sample a very large number of cells at once. Researchers at Duke University have […]
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New Method for Integrating Flexible Electronics Into Skin Patches
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At the Waseda University in Japan, researchers have come up with a new, cheaper way of producing electronic devices that are flexible, elastic, and adhere to the skin. This development may help body monitoring electronic skin patches that interface with smartphone apps to become commonly used in medicine and by consumers. The technology relies on&n (Read more...)