Northwestern University engineers have created what they claim are the smallest-ever human-made flying structures — winged microchips that could monitor the air for disease and pollution. Engineering professor John Rogers and his team at Northwestern drew on inspiration from nature to create the microchips, which are the size of a grain of sand. The chips […]
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Could people one day get pacemakers that dissolve into the body?
Wireless, battery-free, fully implantable pacemakers made of bioresorbable components could represent the future of temporary pacing technology. Flexible, dissolvable electronics could soon pave the way for temporary pacemaker wearers to avert the risks associated with surgical procedures from initial implantation to the removal of the device once its job is done. Northwestern and George Washington […]