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Mice Against Ticks - Preventing tick-borne disease by permanently immunizing mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…
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Lensing: Cardiolinguistics for Atypical Angina

Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people romanti…
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Accessibility of the microgravity research ecosystem

For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microgra…
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A Protocol to Characterize pH Sensing Materials and Systems

​Although significant progress is being made in identifying pH sensing materials and device configurations, a standard protocol for be…
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Conformal Piezoelectric Mechanical Energy Harvesters: Mechanically Invisible Human Dynamos

Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life span …
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The Future of Neuroimplantable Devices: A materials science and regulatory perspective

​The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroimp…
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SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
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NETRA: Smartphone add-on for eye tests

Can a person look at a portable display, click on a few buttons, and recover his or her refractive condition? Our optometry solution combin…
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Identi-Wheez: A device for in-home diagnosis of asthma

Asthma is the most common chronic illness among children. The skills required to diagnose it make it an even greater concern. Our solution …
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BrightBeat: Effortlessly influencing breathing for cultivating calmness and focus

The relationship between breathing and self-reported stress is bidirectional. Respiration pattern is an indicator of stress, but it can als…
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RoboChain: A secure data-sharing framework for human-robot interaction

A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at m…
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SkinBot: A wearable, skin-climbing robot

We introduce SkinBot: a lightweight robot that moves over the skin's surface with a two-legged suction-based locomotion mechanism and captu…
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HeartBit

HeartBit is an interface designed for haptic heart rate biofeedback. A handheld heart beats alongside your own, mirroring the size, weight,…
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NeverMind: Using AR for memorization

NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augmented…
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Ultrasound imaging for transtibial prosthetic interface design

​In the United States, there are an estimated 1.7 million people living with amputation, with that number expected to double by 2050. Compl…
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TurboTrack: 3D backscatter localization for fine-grained robotics

TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-centim…
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Health sensing using wireless signals

Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ou…
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In-Vivo Networking: Powering and communicating with tiny battery-free devices inside the body

In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the h…
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RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…
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OPAL 4 Health

Open Algorithms (OPAL)
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Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each project…
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Skin Perfusion Photography

Skin and tissue perfusion measurements are important parameters for diagnosis of wounds and burns, and for monitoring plastic and reconstru…