This implantable battery powers itself exclusively with the body’s own oxygen
The output is still very low, but for the first time we have something than can harness oxygen to power ...
Tag: medical implant
Tiny blood testing device inserted under the skin delivers instant results
Miniaturization is a fad that's increasingly popular in the field of medicine for obvious reasons, and scientists at EPFL have recently made ...
Retina implant restores sight to the blind
In the culmination of 15 years worth of painstaking research work related to retina implants, scientists from Germany and Hungary ...
Cyber-crime turns frightening real: hacking pacemakers and other medical devices
It seems like a scenario from a bad spy movie: someone hacking a medical device like an insulin pump or ...
Brain glucose might power the future’s tiny medical implants
A team of researchers at MIT have successfully manage to fabric a fuel cell capable of running on glucose, which ...