emergentfutures: Temporary tattoo measures blood glucose levels Future diabetes patients won’t have to stick themselves with a needle; they’ll just need to get a tattoo. Researchers have developed a temporary paper-based tattoo that applies a mild electrical shock to...

emergentfutures: 10 Diseases That Might Afflict Us In The Future Today, humans suffer from a wide range of diseases and disorders that didn’t exist in the past, a trend that will likely continue well into the future. Here are 10 unexpected and wholly unpleasant...

txchnologist: A Failing Heart Gets A Hand This image was made using a specialized computed tomography (CT) scan of a patient’s thorax in 2013. It shows an amazing piece of medical technology called a ventricular assist device.  This implanted device was helping a...

emergentfutures: New ultrasound chip could be a leap forward in cheap medical imaging Rothberg won’t say exactly how Butterfly’s device will work, or what it will look like. “The details will come out when we are on stage selling it. That’s in the next 18 months,” he...