Byline: Amanda Morris
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First Wearable Device for Vocal Fatigue Senses When Your Voice Needs a Break
Scientists have developed the first wearable device to track how much people use their voices, alerting them to overuse before fatigue and potential injury set in.
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Mature ‘Lab Grown’ Neurons Hold Promise for Neurodegenerative Disease
Northwestern scientists have created the first highly mature neurons from human induced pluripotent stem cells, a feat that opens new opportunities for medical research and potential transplantation therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.
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Aging Is Driven by Unbalanced Genes
In a new study, Northwestern investigators used artificial intelligence to analyze data from a wide variety of tissues, and discovered that the length of genes can explain most molecular-level changes that occur during aging.
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Dissolving Implantable Device Relieves Pain Without Drugs
A Northwestern University-led team has developed a small, pain-relieving implant that could provide a much-needed alternative to opioids and other highly addictive medications.
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Smart, Dissolving Pacemaker Communicates With Body-Area Sensor and Control Network
A new, smart pacemaker is integrated into a coordinated network of four soft, flexible, wireless, wearable sensors and control units placed around the upper body.
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‘Dancing Molecules’ Successfully Repair Severe Spinal Cord Injuries
A new injectable therapy harnesses “dancing molecules” to reverse paralysis and repair tissue after severe spinal cord injuries, allowing animal subjects to regain the ability to walk.
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Neurons That Respond to Touch are Less Picky Than Expected
Touch-sensitive neurons responded to many types of touch and to varying degrees – in a much messier and jumbled manner than previous predicted, according to a recent study.
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Muscle’s Smallest Building Blocks Disappear After Stroke
In a new study, Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab researchers have discovered that, in an attempt to adapt to this impairment, muscles actually lose sarcomeres — their smallest, most basic building blocks.
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First-Ever Transient Pacemaker Harmlessly Dissolves in Body
Scientists have developed the first-ever transient pacemaker — a wireless, battery-free, fully implantable pacing device that disappears after it’s no longer needed.
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Scientists Develop First Wireless Sensors to Monitor Pregnant Women and their Babies
A new wearable device developed at Northwestern measures mothers’ and babies’ vital signs and data that cannot be collected with current technology.
