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Rutgers engineers invent biosensor technology for wearable devices Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers have created a smart wristband with a wireless connection to smartphones that will enable a new wave of personal health and environmental monitoring devices. Their technology, which could be added to watches and other wearable devices that monitor heart rates and physical activity,

Could re-ignite interest in the use of DNA-based wires and devices in the development of programmable circuits In a paper published today in Nature Nanotechnology (“Long-range charge transport in single G-quadruplex DNA molecules”), an international group of scientists announced the most significant breakthrough in a decade toward developing DNA-based electrical circuits. The central technological revolution

A research team, led by Craig Venter of America’s J. Craig Venter Institute (JVCI), has successfully produced the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. Called Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 the synthetic cell is the proof of principle that genomes can be designed in the computer, chemically made in the laboratory and transplanted into a recipient cell to

SDSU geography professor Ming-Hsiang Tsou’s method of using Twitter to track the spread of influenza is producing results. As the United States enters the sniffly, sneezy heart of flu season, a social media–monitoring program led by a San Diego State University researcher could clue in physicians and health officials to when and where severe outbreaks

LED light bulbs can be brighter and more energy efficient than ever, thanks to a high performance LED driver newly developed by researchers from the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering. The new driver powers LED light bulbs with an innovative approach called multi-level PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation), which delivers remarkable improvements in terms of light

Image via Wikipedia Slashdot points us to this wonderful blog post on the Got Medieval blog about how monks and scribes in the middle ages “copy protected” their books with “book curses” inscribed within the book. I almost wonder if those were more effective than today’s DRM attempts. The blog has a nice image of one

Researchers from King’s have found that therapy that can induce heart cells to regenerate after a heart attack. Myocardial infarction, more commonly known as a heart attack, caused by the sudden blocking of one of the cardiac coronary arteries, is the main cause of heart failure, a condition that now affects over 23 million population

While there may be medications that help soothe sunburnt skin, when it comes to healing that skin … well, we pretty much have to just wait for our bodies to do that on their own. Recent research conducted at Ohio State University, however, suggests that an actual healing treatment for sunburn may be on the

Metalens sensor could be used for microrobotics, augmented reality, wearable devices For all our technological advances, nothing beats evolution when it comes to research and development. Take jumping spiders. These small arachnids have impressive depth perception despite their tiny brains, allowing them to accurately pounce on unsuspecting targets from several body lengths away. Inspired by

Beating patch is as strong and electrically active as healthy adult heart Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a fully functioning artificial human heart muscle large enough to patch over damage typically seen in patients who have suffered a heart attack. The advance takes a major step toward the end goal of repairing dead