Plastic or silk threads covered with temperature sensors and micro-heaters could keep tabs on infections and provide therapy. Surgical sutures are mindless threads no more. Researchers have now coated them with sensors that could monitor [...]

Next-generation fully flexible electronic systems in combination with existing flexible components such as display, memory, and LED. While mobile phone technology has improved dramatically in the last five years, one element has not seen any [...]

Current electronics are too rigid For people with heart conditions and other ailments that require monitoring, life can be complicated by constant hospital visits and time-consuming tests. But what if much of the testing done at [...]