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Mashup Score: 2Camera Measures Blood Pressure with Quick Look | Medgadget - 1 year(s) ago
At the University of South Australia, researchers designed a system that allows them to measure a patient’s blood pressure with a camera. The camera visualizes the patient’s forehead and focuses on two regions in particular to optically determine photoplethysmographic signals that AI algorithms then convert to blood pressure data. The researchers tested their system in 25 volunteers, and so far…
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Mashup Score: 0Diabetes Management Tech for Type II patients: Interview with Jeffrey Brewer, CEO of Bigfoot Biomedical | Medgadget - 1 year(s) ago
Bigfoot Biomedical, a medtech company based in California, has developed the Bigfoot Unity System, a diabetes management technology for patients on multiple daily injection therapy. The system uses continuous glucose monitoring data and doctor recommendations to provide insulin dose recommendations, helping patients to avoid uncertainty. The company argues that type 2 diabetes patients have…
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Scientists at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology came up with a technique to increase the efficiency and potentially the efficacy of mRNA therapeutics. mRNA molecules have what is called a poly-A tail, which is basically a string of adenine nucleotides at one end. These researchers discovered that by replacing some of these nucleotides in the mRNA tail with cytidine, a cytosine base…
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Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drug (DMARD) Market A increase in the number of research project launches is one of the key market trends projected to boost growth over the forecast period. RINVOQ, for instance, was given FDA approval in April 2022 to treat patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) who had an adverse response to or intolerance to one or more TNF blockers. Click Here for…
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Mashup Score: 0Implanted Magnets for Prosthetic Control | Medgadget - 1 year(s) ago
Engineers at MIT have developed a system that could let users of robotic prostheses to more sensitively control their bionic limbs. The technology involves implanting pairs of small magnetic beads into muscles. When the muscles contract, the beads move closer together, allowing prosthetic devices to more precisely calculate a user’s intentions and mirror these. Current systems measure the…
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Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed a DNA toolbox that allows researchers to explore binding interactions between ligands and their respective receptors based on receptor density and arrangement. The basis for many pharmacological interactions between drugs and cells, and indeed many physiological or pathological interactions involving…
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Mashup Score: 1Making Tumors Tastier for the Immune System | Medgadget - 1 year(s) ago
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a nanotechnology platform that can make cancer cells more vulnerable to immune attack in the body. The researchers call their system the bispecific tumor-transforming nanoconjugate (BiTN) platform. The idea is to make solid tumors more appealing for the immune system by attaching a molecule that acts as an “eat…
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Mashup Score: 1Extra Hot Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy | Medgadget - 1 year(s) ago
Researchers at Oregon State University created a new type of hyperthermic magnetic nanoparticle that is intended to assist in destroying tumors through localized heating under an alternating magnetic field. Previous iterations of such technologies could heat up to about 44 degrees Celsius (111 F), which was only effective in easy-to-access tumors that can be reached with a hypodermic needle,…
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Mashup Score: 2Implantable Device Adheres to Muscle, Treats Atrophy | Medgadget - 1 year(s) ago
Scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard have developed a mechanically active gel-elastomer-nitinol tissue adhesive, otherwise known as MAGENTA. The implantable device functions as a soft robot, and it can be adhered to the outside of a muscle. When an electrical charge is applied to the device, a spring inside made from nitinol (a shape memory alloy)…
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Mashup Score: 1Implanted Magnets for Prosthetic Control | Medgadget - 2 year(s) ago
Engineers at MIT have developed a system that could let users of robotic prostheses to more sensitively control their bionic limbs. The technology involves implanting pairs of small magnetic beads into muscles. When the muscles contract, the beads move closer together, allowing prosthetic devices to more precisely calculate a user’s intentions and mirror these. Current systems measure the…
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Recently, I tested a skin patch that measures my blood pressure for 24 hours. Then I thought it was time to retire the old cuffs in favor of the skin patch. It appears that there may be an even easier way to obtain blood pressure. https://t.co/Y6thkpbRYv