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• Innovative Antennae May Signal A 'New Wave' In Health Care Provision

  The use of biosensors attached to the body for health monitoring is not new. However, antennas that enable such devices to be linked together efficiently on a patient's body without wires are currently too uncomfortable to wear for a long time because Read More...
  Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:21 PM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biosensors, Medical diagnostics

• Nano-nose sniffs out sickness

  A set of gold nanoparticles with various coatings can identify proteins by mimicking the way the human nose distinguishes scents. Researchers are using them to detect signs of illness in bodily fluids.... Read more
  Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 3:38 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology, Biosensors, Medical diagnostics

• Nanowires in the blood could feel the pressure

  Nanowires that produce a current during bending could one day be implanted into the body to monitor changes in blood pressure, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers claim.... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:15 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanowires, Biosensors

• Breakthrough in nanodevice synthesis revolutionizes biological sensors

  Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering engineers have developed a novel approach to synthesizing nanowires using wet-etch lithography on com... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:13 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology, Biosensors

• A Fast, Sensitive Virus Detector

  A sensor that measures the concentration of viruses in minutes could make possible a handheld device that cheaply and quickly spots pathogens.... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:52 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biosensors

• Nanoparticle Implant Measures Tumor Growth, Treatment

  An implant containing nanoparticles that can test for different substances and now being developed at MIT could one day help doctors rapidly monitor the growth of tumors and the progress of chemotherapy in cancer patients.... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:32 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanomedicine, Nanoparticles, Biosensors, Medical diagnostics

• Technique quickly identifies bacteria for food safety

  Researchers at Purdue University have used a new technique to rapidly detect and precisely identify bacteria, including dangerous E. coli, without the time-consuming treatments usually required. Called desorption electrospray ionization, or DESI, ... Read more
  Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:00 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biosensors, Food safety

• Portable, Magnetic DNA Detector

  Stanford researchers have integrated an array of tiny magnetic sensors into a silicon chip containing circuitry that reads the sensor data. The magnetic biochip could offer an alternative to existing bioanalysis tools, which are costly and bulky. ... Read more
  Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 7:46 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biosensors

• Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring

  University of Rochester Medical Center cardiologist Spencer Rosero, M.D. is developing implantable biosensors to create a "biological chip." When implanted, this chip can detect physiologic and chemical changes with faster, improved accuracy. ... Read more
  Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 11:38 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biosensors