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Nanotech Implant Monitors for Cancer and Now Heart Attacks, Too

Heart attacks and cancer account for nearly half of all deaths in the United States – they’re the two biggest [...]

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The Lifelogging Professor – An Update on the Surgically Implanted Camera

I don’t know artist Wafaa Bilal, but I know exactly where he was about an hour ago.  How?  The constant [...]

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Becoming Cybernetic: 3D Custom-Fit Knee Implants from ConforMIS

Like the treads on car tires, the all important cartilage within our knees is slowly wearing down. By the age [...]

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Implantable Eye Telescope That Treats AMD Now FDA Approved

A telescopic implant that fits directly into the eye to treat certain kinds of blindness has finally received FDA approval [...]

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Implant that Shocks Brain to Treat Epilepsy in Clinical Trials

The medical uses of electrically shocking your brain have a dubious history and a worse portrayal in movies. One Flew [...]

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Will Your ID Soon Be a Microchip Under Your Skin?

Yet another sci-fi milestone is upon us: microchips implanted under your skin and used to identify you. The VeriChip is [...]

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Braingate Frees Trapped Minds

It is a horrifying concept: being buried alive. Even more terrible is the prospect of living trapped in our own [...]

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Implantable Eye Telescope Brings Sight Back To The Blind

For the millions of people who suffer from age-related eye degeneration, restoring sight to the blind might sound less like [...]

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The Rise of the Cyborgs

Discover Magazine has just blown me away with a fascinating story on the current state of brain-computer interfaces (BCI).  The [...]

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Chip for Eye Implants Could Run for a Year on Millimeter Sized Battery

The Short: An IEEE Spectrum report and University of Michigan report tell of a fascinating advance in the development of [...]

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