Monday, October 12, 2015

Biomedical Technology - Google

2015 - Google pairs with Sanofi to move diabetes patients to develop smart insulin delivery devices, smart measurement devices, and an interface and an integrating platform that helps physicians and patients see how they’re doing,

2014 - Google agreed to work with Novartis to develop contact lenses that use tiny sensors to read blood-sugar levels from tears.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-31/google-pairs-with-sanofi-to-move-diabetes-patients-to-cloud


2014 - Google is developing disease-detecting nanoparticles, which would enter a patient's bloodstream via a swallowed pill.  A wrist-worn sensor will monitor the blood for the unique traces of cancer.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29802581

2014 - Google acquired a company that offer a spoon to counteract the tremors caused by Parkinson's disease.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/25/google-launches-smart-spoon-shaking-hands-liftware

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Biomedical Technology and Biomemetics Updates


(1)   Device to regulate steady delivery of drug (2015-09)

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21662651-medical-technology-new-devices-regulate-steady-delivery-drugs-within?frsc=dg%7Cd

(2)  Biomechanics: Replacing a propeller with a flapping fin (2015-09)
Adrian Thomas, a professor of biomechanics at the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21662643-biomechanics-replacing-propeller-flapping-fin-could-help-team?frsc=dg|d



(3)  Heart repair for stroke patients - Prof Pilar Ruiz-Lozano at Stanford University - soaked a collagen patch in a protein known as Fstl1 and stitched it on to the hearts of animals who had experienced heart attacks.  New muscle cells and blood vessel begins to grow.  (2015-09)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34259213


(4)  Anti quorum sensing molecule
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/44/17981.short