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In the latest of a series of innovative designs for wearable sensors that use sweat to identify and measure physiological conditions, Caltech's Wei Gao has devised an "electronic skin" that continuously monitors nine different markers that characterize a stress response.
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Although artificial intelligence in health has shown great promise, pressure is mounting for regulators around the world to act, as AI tools demonstrate potentially harmful outcomes.
In this episode, we discuss the breakthrough in tissue engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which enables the creation of skin tissue with functional hair follicles and its benefits to the medical field.
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Strong enough to move soft robots and medical capsules, weak enough to not ruin MRI images
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With an increased focus on home health, wellness, and prevention, a new market has been born around smart devices for tracking several vital parameters.
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In this episode, we talk about how a soft robotic exoskeleton from Harvard and Boston University is allowing patients suffering from Parkinson’s Disease to get their independence back by being able to walk safely without extra assistance.
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An interdisciplinary project at Caltech has designed a new type of catheter tube that impedes the upstream mobility of bacteria, without the need for antibiotics or other chemical antimicrobial methods.
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In this episode, we dive into our favorite episodes from the last year and present the first annual saucy awards!
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Robotic exosuit eliminated gait freezing, a common and highly debilitating symptom
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Changes in small blood vessels are a common consequence of diabetes development. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Helmholtz Munich have now developed a method that can be used to measure these microvascular changes in the skin – and thus assess the severity of the disease.
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The technique represents an important step in engineering skin grafts, drug testing
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The realistic model could aid the development of better heart implants and shed light on understudied heart disorders.
The one-step fabrication process rapidly produces miniature chemical reactors that could be used to detect diseases or analyze substances.
Digital therapeutics are transforming the way we approach medicine and patient care.
Researchers receive funding to develop injectable grain-of-rice-sized continuous glucose monitor technology.
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