Mites are common in the Antarctic – there are hundreds of species. Some even live in the nasal cavities of penguins. Penguin ...

Although it can work with hearts of all sizes, the pacemaker is particularly well-suited to the tiny, fragile hearts of newborn babies.

The new device is smaller than a grain of rice and gets absorbed by the patient’s body when it’s no longer needed, eliminating the risks of an extraction surgery ...

Temporary pacemaker can be injected, fits any size patient, including babies, and eliminates need to remove it.

A tiny device can be inserted using a syringe and then safely dissolves once it is no longer needed. Engineers at ...

Credit: John A. Rogers/Northwestern University/Cover Images Engineers at Northwestern University in Illinois have developed an ultra-small pacemaker that can be non-invasively injected into the body ...

All the pacemaker’s components are biocompatible, so they naturally dissolve into the body’s biofluids ... as human hearts from deceased organ donors. “We have developed what is, to our knowledge, the ...

The world’s smallest temporary pacemaker is self-powered, optically controlled and dissolves when it’s no longer needed ...

The device is so small that it can be non-invasively injected into the body via a syringe ... models as well as human hearts from deceased organ donors. “We have developed what is, to our ...

Engineers at Northwestern University developed a pacemaker that can fit inside the tip of a syringe for easier implantation.