Imec of Leuven, Belgium and its partners have completed a three-year program (2012-2015) to leverage a variety of silicon photonics technologies by making them accessible for industry and academia worldwide. Within the ESSenTIAL program ...
Tags: Silicon photonics, ESSenTIAL program, electrical equipment
Nearly half of all Phase III pharmaceutical clinical trials fail, partly because data about patient adherence is hard to come by. That’s according to computer giant Oracle (ORCL), which has teamed with and ingestible sensor ...
Tags: self-reporting, lab tests, Health
Some may think of turkeys as good for just lunch meat and holiday meals. But bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, saw inspiration in the big birds for a new type of biosensor that changes color when exposed to chemical ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, meat
Echo Therapeutics’ Symphony CGM system has won Medical Devices Business Review’s Medical Device Innovation Award. Echo's device was selected from four nominations shortlisted for the award. Symphony CGM system is a ...
Tags: Medical Device, Medicine
Integral Molecular, a biotechnology company, has announced the issuance of a new patent and patent family by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) covering the composition of matter for its Lipoparticle technology. This ...
Tags: Lipoparticle Technology, USPTO
US-based medical products company Abaxis and optical biosensor company LamdaGen have entered into research and development collaboration for integrating LamdaGen's high-sensitivity Plasmonic ELISA technology on the Abaxis’ Piccolo and ...
Researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, have developed a cradle and an app that can transform an iPhone into a biosensor capable of detecting allergens in food. This device can be used by those with food allergies to ...
Tags: Allergens in Food, Smartphone App
The PIP, a device that allows technology to respond to emotional stimulus, launches today on crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/484175508/the-pip-a-biosensor-that-helps-you-relax-through-p Innovated by ...
Tags: PIP, Consumer Electronics
Dr Sivalingam (Siva) Sivananthan, CEO & founder (in 1998) of EPIR Technologies Inc in Bolingbrook (a suburb of Chicago), IL, USA (which develops infrared sensor, biosensor and solar photovoltaic products), was honored at a White House ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, solar photovoltaic products, infrared sensor
Biosensor and microprocessor technologies developer SPO Medical has entered into a collaboration agreement with HoMedics. Under the agreement, SPO Medical will distribute HoMedics's over-the-counter HoMedics Deluxe Pulse Oximeter, which ...
Scientists at Princeton University say they have used nanotechnology to make tests to detect diseases,such as cancer and Alzheimer's,3 million times more sensitive. That means what researchers are calling a breakthrough in nanotechnology ...
Tags: nanotechnology, detect diseases, Princeton University, D2PA, Cancer
OJ-Bio has secured grants from the UK government's Biomedical Catalyst to further develop its hand-held flu diagnosis device. The device, which is developed under the company's £1m ($1.5m) project, features bio-sensor materials with ...
Tags: flu diagnosis device, diagnosis device, hand-held flu diagnosis device
For commercial off-the-shelf antennas to used for medical body area networks they must be able to operate in an environment that they were not generally designed for,next to the human body instead of in free space,writes Simon Kingsley ...
Tags: commercial off-the-shelf antennas, Radio and wireless networks
From checking blood glucose levels, to monitoring the movements of a newborn baby, Canadians are increasingly able to monitor their health across a growing variety of devices and services. What most will not know is that in the background, ...
Tags: wireless connection, CTIA Wireless 2012, mobile health