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Type 1 diabetes remains a problem despite having an apparently simple solution: since T1D patients have lost the cells that produce insulin, it should be possible to transplant those cells …read more Continue reading Implant Fights Diabetes by Making Insulin and Oxygen
Compared to their manual counterparts, electric wheelchairs are far less demanding to operate, as the user doesn’t need to have upper body strength normally required to turn the wheels. But …read more Continue reading Autonomous Wheelchair Lets Jetson Do the Driving
The field of therapeutic cloning has long sought to provide a way to create replacement organs and tissues from a patient’s own cells, with the most recent boost coming from …read more Continue reading ARPA-H Moonshot Project Aims to Enable 3D Printing of Human Organs
What do you do when you want to stick an electrode or even an couple of sensors to an internal organ, such as a heart? Generally you’d use some kind …read more Continue reading Bioadhesive Polymer Semiconductors For In-Vivo Sensors
Despite recent advances in diagnosing cancer, many cases are still diagnosed using biopsies and analyzing thin slices of tissue underneath a microscope. Properly analyzing these tissue sample slides requires highly …read more Continue reading Google’s Augmented Reality Microscope Might Help Diagnose Cancer
Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system starts attacking the body’s own cells. They can cause a wide range of deleterious symptoms that greatly reduce a patient’s quality of life. …read more Continue reading Inverse Vaccines Could Help Treat Autoimmune Conditions
A subset of hackers have RFID implants, but there is a limited catalog. When [Miana] looked for a device that would open a secure door at her work, she did …read more Continue reading Bespoke Implants are Real—if You put in the Time
Of the body’s organs, the lungs are among the trickiest to take a biopsy and treat cancer in, both due to how important they are, as well as due to …read more Continue reading The Healing Touch of Magnetic Tentacles in Photothermal Lung Cancer Therapy
Of all the electrical signals generated by the human body, those coming from the heart are probably the most familiar to the average person. And because it’s also quite simple …read more Continue reading Card/IO is a Credit Card-Sized, Open Source ECG Monitor
We’re always looking for interesting biohacks here on Hackaday, and this new research article describing a calibrated pulse oximeter for different skin tones really caught our attention. Pulse oximeters are …read more Continue reading Perfecting the Pulse Oximeter