Implantable bioelectronics are now often key in assisting or monitoring the heart, brain, and other vital organs, but they often lack a safe, reliable way of transmitting their data to doctors. Now researchers at Columbia ...
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When dieting and exercise aren't enough, weight-loss surgery can be an effective obesity treatment. But people who don't want surgery have other options, including insertion of an appetite-suppressing balloon or other implant ...
Apr 6, 2022
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New research identifies a brain region where both imagined hand grasps and spoken words can be decoded, indicating a promising candidate region for brain implants for neuroprosthetic applications.
Apr 1, 2022
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Using a 1-millimeter-sized wireless implant to stimulate peripheral nerves from within blood vessels has the potential to treat neuropathic pain resistant to medical therapy, according to a team of multi-institutional researchers ...
Mar 31, 2022
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Unable to move a single muscle, even to open your eyes. Completely locked into your own body, yet fully conscious and aware.
Mar 22, 2022
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Long-term use of implantable electronic medical devices—such as pacemakers and cochlear implants—is hampered by the body's reaction to foreign bodies. Now, in a study in mice, a team led by scientists at the University ...
Mar 14, 2022
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Led by the University of Sydney, an international team has developed a new kind of bone implant that reduces the chance of infection, and therefore significantly decreases implant failure rates. In Australia, a fifth of conventional ...
Feb 21, 2022
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New research from MIT neuroscientists suggests that natural soundscapes have shaped our sense of hearing, optimizing it for the kinds of sounds we most often encounter.
Dec 20, 2021
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Grégoire Courtine doesn't hesitate to use the word "revolutionary" when describing the emerging field of optogenetics—a technology that uses pulses of light to control individual neural activity—and what it could mean ...
Sep 27, 2021
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Biomedical engineers and surgeons at Duke University and UCLA have demonstrated an antibiotic coating that can be applied to orthopedic implants minutes before surgery that eliminates the chances of an infection around the ...
Sep 20, 2021
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