Slipknot-gauged mechanical transmission and robotic operation
Fabrication of the slipknot All experiments were conducted at room temperature (21 °C). The loading rate was set at…
A skin-permeable polymer for non-invasive transdermal insulin delivery
Cell lines and animals The HaCat, mouse hepatoma (AML-12), mouse embryonic fibroblast (3T3-L1) and mouse skeletal muscle (MSMC)…
Barriers to translating continuous monitoring technologies for preventative medicine
What is Diabetes? (CDC, 2023). Harris, M. I. & Eastman, R. C. Early detection of undiagnosed diabetes mellitus:…
Creating ‘digital twins’ of bone to solve real-world health problems
Svetlana Komarova first began studying bone as a postdoctoral fellow at NASA, where her research was focused on…
Forget smartwatches, scientists teach WiFi to monitor heartbeats
Your WiFi can now do more than stream movies; it can sense the beat of your heart. Engineers…
In vitro evidence of bubble-induced acoustic softening and Sanal flow choking in cardiovascular decompression
This pilot in vitro study explored how decompression-induced microbubble nucleation and acoustic softening contribute to flow instability and…
Regrafting submillimeter-scale ferromagnetic soft continuums
Working principles of ETACs ETACs, submillimeter/millimeter-scale FSCs (e.g., side lengths of 0.6 and 1 mm in this work), can…