by Alfred Poor | January 27, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Adenosine triphosphate: you might recognize this chemical compound from your high school or college biology class, or perhaps its acronym ATP will ring a bell. The bottom line is that you can’t live without it. This is the molecule that takes energy from where...
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by Bruce Brown | December 30, 2015 | General News, Health
Approximately 30 million adults and children in the U.S. have diabetes, with another 86 million estimated to be prediabetic. Once someone is diagnosed with the disease, regular blood glucose measurements are necessary, as often as four to eight times a day. It’s...
by Bruce Brown | December 28, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
Drawing blood isn’t particularly pleasant at best for the patient, but interest in mobile and wearable devices to check and measure blood-borne biomarkers may make the process faster, easier, and unobtrusive. People with diabetes, for example, often need...
by Alfred Poor | December 24, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
Since we launched Health Tech Insider more than a year and a half ago, we have published more than 700 stories about wearable devices for health and medical applications, as well as coverage of new enabling technologies. As we near the end of the year, it is...
by Alfred Poor | December 21, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have become a miracle material; researchers are finding wide ranging applications from transparent conductive layers to solar cells to printable electronics. Scientists at the University of Texas Arlington (UT) is working on a new device that...
