Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...

The tiny pacemaker sits next to a single grain of rice on a fingertip. The device is so small that it can be non-invasively injected into the body via a syringe. Northwestern University engineers have ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses the regeneration of the cardiovascular system. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the ...

Pengju Li consults to the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. He receives funding from the University of Chicago. By harnessing light, my colleagues and I designed a wireless, ultrathin ...

My life depends on the functioning of a medical device: a pacemaker that generates each and every beat of my heart. I know how it feels to have my body controlled by a machine that is not working ...

A touch-sensitive slab of glass has the potential to be an incredible musical instrument. Actually, it has the potential to be any number of incredible instruments. Sadly, most of the music making ...

If your heart beats too slowly or gets out of rhythm, a pacemaker can send an electrical pulse to that muscle and get it back on track. To do that, pacemakers need generators with batteries, and ...

The heartbeat originates from spontaneous depolarizations in the sinoatrial node, which lead to the spread of electrical signals throughout the heart via a specialized conduction system Failure of the ...

Last summer, Northwestern University researchers introduced the first-ever transient pacemaker — a fully implantable, wireless device that harmlessly dissolves in the body after it’s no longer needed.

Scientists at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have successfully reprogrammed ordinary heart cells to become exact replicas of so-called “pacemaker” heart cells. Such replica cells could conceivably ...

In early 2014, Pacemaker became the first DJ App that allowed users to play and beat-match two Spotify tracks simultaneously. Although that feature has since been matched by Djay, Pacemaker offers a ...