Tiny, Portable Personal Blood Testing Implant That Sends Data Through Mobile Phone Network
Humans are veritable chemical factories - we manufacture thousands of substances and transport them, via our blood, throughout our bodies. Some of these substances can be used as indicators of our health status. A team of EPFL scientists has developed a tiny device that can analyze the concentration of these substances in the blood. Implanted just beneath the skin, it can detect up to five proteins and organic acids simultaneously, and then transmit the results directly to a doctor's computer...
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Key Step In The Manufacture Of Red Blood Cells Decoded
A healthy adult must generate as many as one hundred billion new red blood cells each day, to maintain the numbers circulating in his blood. A team of EPFL researchers has identified a key step in the process by which red blood cells are born. The discovery could not only shed light on the causes of blood disorders such as anaemia, it could also bring closer the medics' dream of being able to manufacture red blood cells in the lab - thus providing a potentially inexhaustible supply of an essential component of blood for transfusion...
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A Tool That Could Simply And Accurately Determine The Right Dose For Oncology
King Mithridates understood that poison is only as good as the dosage taken. Each day, he ingested small quantities of poison in order to become immune and escape his court's plotters. Oncologists run up against the same principle when fighting cancer. Sometimes, a small dose of chemotherapy may induce dangerous resistance mechanisms in malignant cells, resulting in relapse. Now, EPFL research published in the journal PLOS ONE reports a tool that could simply and accurately determine the right dose for individual patients...
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Restoring Voluntary Control Of Locomotion After Severe Spinal Cord Injury
In the lab, rats with severe spinal cord injury are learning to walk - and run - again. Last June in the journal Science, Gregoire Courtine, of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), reported that rats in his lab are not only voluntarily initiating a walking gait, but they were sprinting, climbing up stairs, and avoiding obstacles after a couple of weeks of neurorehabilitation with a combination of a robotic harness and electricalchemical stimulation...
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Smart Prosthetics That Connect Directly To The Nervous System Point The Way To A Better Bionic Hand
For an amputee, replacing a missing limb with a functional prosthetic can alleviate physical or emotional distress and mean a return of vocational ability or cosmetics. Studies show, however, that up to 50 percent of hand amputees still do not use their prosthesis regularly due to less than ideal functionality, appearance, and controllability. But Silvestro Micera, of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, is paving the way for new, smart prosthetics that connect directly to the nervous system...
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polytechnique
silvestro
switzerland