March 2025 How can haptic feedback, which uses vibrations to simulate real touch sensations, be improved to provide more accurate data to users? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a team of more than a dozen researchers developed a novel technology for enhancing haptic feedback that produces complex sensations that were previously unattainable.
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March 2025 New tech out of the wearables lab of Northwestern University inventor John Rogers can go beyond the simple buzz of a typical haptic sensor to mimic complex sensations on the skin.
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March 2025 Device goes beyond the buzz to create a sophisticated variety of haptic sensations
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February 2025 The Hagler Institute for Advanced Study is proud to announce the John Rogers/Yonggang Huang Medal. This is an annual award for the best collaborative research paper by a Hagler Fellow with a Texas A&M student among the co-authors.
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January 2025 Researchers have discovered biomarkers in sweat that could play a role advancing everything from precision medicine and nutrition to diagnosing things like depression and anxiety.
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November 2024 Scientists develop wearable haptic device to offer a sense of touch for visually impaired
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November 2024 A new way to experience human sense of touch has arrived.
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November 2024 Scientists have devised a clever new method of allowing people to feel sensations that are transmitted to their skin. Beyond its applications in fields such as gaming and telepresence, the technology could also be used to guide the blind.
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November 2024 Device delivers various sensations, including vibrations, pressure and twisting
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November 2024 An implantable device detected opioid overdose and automatically administered naloxone, saving lives in rat and pig models. The device hasn’t yet been tested in people. If successful, it might also be adapted to treat other emergencies, such as life-threatening allergic reactions.
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November 2024 Spurred by advances in energy-harvesting materials, a new generation of advanced implantable biomedical devices is emerging that does away with the bulky battery.
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November 2024 A team of scientists led by Northwestern Medicine investigators has created an implant capable of reversing an opioid overdose, according to findings published in Science Advances.
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November 2024 Interdisciplinary engineering team developed a wearable fatigue-prediction sensor system.
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October 2024 With continued development, the device has the potential to someday save human lives.
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October 2024 Researchers from WashU Medicine and Northwestern University developed an implantable device that can detect an overdose and rapidly deliver naloxone.
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July 2024 Prof. Rogers delivers a plenary talk titled "From Scientific Discovery to Engineering Development and Commercial Deployment" at the iCANX event in Davos, Switzerland.
June 2024 Consulting for Wearable Technologies - A Catalyst for Innovation, a piece that highlights our course in the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Northwestern University.
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March 2024 Advances in Maternity Technology, features our work in this area!
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March 2024 Shape-Shifting Ultrasound Stickers Detect Post-surgical Complications, as reported in a paper in Science.
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March 2024 S. Sharma and Y. Lee write a perspectives piece titled Monitoring Homeostasis With Ultrasound, on our paper on this topic, published in Science.
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February 2024 Fenella Saunders writes a piece featuring Q&A with Prof. Rogers on research in bioelectronics, titled Wearable Wireless Electronics.
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February 2024 Prof. Rogers is awarded the 2024 IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award.
December 2023 A new project at Northwestern University aims to manage the stress we put our vocal cords through, using a device to monitor how hard our voices are working in order to prevent vocal cord injuries.
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November 2023 Softly adhered to the skin, the novel devices developed by a team with Professor John Rogers continuously track subtle bodily sounds simultaneously and wirelessly at multiple locations across the body.
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November 2023 Our work in bioelectronics for kidney transplants highlighted in Nature Reviews Nephrology, December 2023 edition.
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October 2023 Our work in bioelectronics for kidney transplants was highlighted in Nature Electronics!
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October 2023 Transient electronics featured as a cover article in C&ENews -- Made to Degrade!
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September 2023 Microrobots featured as the worlds smallest remote controlled walking robot in the 2023 issue of Ripley's Believe It or Not.
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September 2023 M. Zaidan and F.G. Lakkis write a perspectives piece in Science on our paper on bioelectronic monitoring of kidney health, titled Tracking Kidney Transplant Fitness.
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September 2023 First device to monitor transplanted organs detects early signs of rejection, as reported in a paper in Science.
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March 2023 NU researchers seek to increase accessibility of motorized wheelchair
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March 2023 Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern University Invent Self-Powered Drug Delivery System, as reported in a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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February 2023 First transient electronic bandage speeds healing by 30%, as reported in a paper in Science Advances.
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February 2023 First wearable device for vocal fatigue senses when your voice needs a break, as reported in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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February 2023 News piece on our research on colorimetric microfliers for environmental monitoring, titled - Colorimetric fliers for remote sensing.
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December 2022 Summary piece on research in the Rogers Group, featured in the Northwestern Medicine magazine, titled - Next-Level Wearable Tech.
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October 2022 Northwestern University Trustee Kimberly K. Querrey (’22, ’23 P) and the Louis Simpson Trust have made a new $121 million gift to Northwestern to advance biomedical discovery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, reinforce the University’s position as a global research powerhouse and expand executive education at the Kellogg School of Management. $11 million of the new gift will support QSIB.
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September 2022 Jun Chen, et al writes a perspectives piece titled - A soft haptic interface for programmable patterns of touch - on our large-area, epidermal haptic systems published in Nature Electronics.
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August 2022 Editorial piece titled - Making Electronics That Dont Last - on our bio/ecoresorbable MEMS systems published in Nature Electronics.
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July 2022 Shan Jiang and Guosong Hong write a perspectives piece titled - Cooling the pain - on our bioresorbable microfluidic implantable system for targeted block of pain signals in peripheral nerves published in Science.
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June 2022 New device could provide an alternative to opioids and other highly addictive drugs
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May 2022 Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann writes a perspectives piece titled - Remote control of the heart and beyond - on our transient, closed-loop system for electrotherapy published in Science
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May 2022 New, smart transient pacemaker that is integrated into a coordinated network of soft, flexible, wireless, wearable sensors and control units placed around the upper body.
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May 2022 Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny crabs can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn and even jump.
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January 2022 The prize honors outstanding contributions made by researchers who are able to adopt or adapt information or techniques from outside their fields, and thus integrate knowledge from two or more disciplines (e.g., engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, biomedicine, geosciences, astronomy, or computational sciences) to solve a major contemporary challenge not addressable from a single disciplinary perspective.
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January 2022 Northwestern Engineering’s John Rogers has received the prestigious 2022 Washington Award from the Western Society of Engineers and the Washington Award Commission. The award is conferred annually upon an engineer whose professional attainments have pre-eminently promoted the happiness, comfort, and well-being of humanity.
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December 2021 Several skin-interfaced wearable technologies from the group featured in an exhibit titled Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, open to the public through February 2023.
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December 2021 John Rogers was selected as one of America's 50 Greatest Disruptive Innovators
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November 2021 Tsuyoshi Sekitani writes a News and Views piece titled - A photocurable bioelectronics tissue interface - on our hydrogel materials for bioelectronics published in Nature Materials.
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November 2021 Y. Khan and Z. Bao write a Commentary piece titled - A soft-electronic sensor network tracks neuromotor development in infants - on our collaborative project published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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September 2021 Northwestern University professor John A. Rogers received the 2021 Order of Lincoln, the State of Illinois’ highest honor for professional achievement and public service.
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September 2021 E. Farrell Helbling writes a News and Views piece titled - Seed-inspired vehicles take flight - on our electronic microfliers published in Nature
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September 2021 The size of a grain of sand, dispersed microfliers could monitor air pollution, airborne disease and environmental contamination
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August 2021 Millions of Americans spend weeks recovering from heart surgery and other operations to repair brain and bone injuries every year. As special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Chicago, researchers are working on a novel approach to aid in that recovery. The story is part of our “Breakthrough” series.
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June 2021 Researchers at Northwestern and George Washington universities (GW) 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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May 2021 Soft, comfortable sensors are first to comprehensively monitor pregnant women and their babies without wires
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May 2021 Northwestern University researchers are building social bonds with beams of light. For the first time ever, Northwestern engineers and neurobiologists have wirelessly programmed — and then deprogrammed — mice to socially interact with one another in real time. The advancement is thanks to a first-of-its-kind ultraminiature, wireless, battery-free and fully implantable device that uses light to activate neurons.
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April 2021 Haptics research aims to add touch to virtual reality, online shopping, and artificial limbs
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April 2021 Northwestern University faculty members Mesmin Destin, Vicky Kalogera, Jennifer Lackey and John A. Rogers are among the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows recently named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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March 2021 A Northwestern University-led research team has developed a novel skin-mounted sticker that absorbs sweat and then changes color to provide an accurate, easy-to-read diagnosis of cystic fibrosis within minutes.
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March 2021 Nina Notman takes a snapshot of the burgeoning field of health and fitness monitoring tattoos and patches
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March 2021 Flexible circuits inspired by human skin offer options for health monitoring, prosthetics and pressure-sensing robots.
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March 2021 A team of scientists, led by researchers at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, has developed novel technology promising to increase understanding of how brains develop, and offer answers on repairing brains in the wake of neurotrauma and neurodegenerative diseases.
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January 2021 A multi-disciplinary team of investigators led by Northwestern scientists have created a wireless, soft and flexible sensor that can constantly monitor pressure and temperature between the patient’s skin and prosthesis.
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January 2021 A novel wireless device may improve real-time monitoring of blood flow and oxygenation in the brain for neonatal and pediatric patients, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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December 2020 Sibel Health — a Northwestern spinout commercializing the sensor — has received $2.4 million from the U.S. Department of Defense through a Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium award.
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December 2020 Northwestern University’s Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics (QSIB) has formed a long-term partnership with Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. to help lead the digital revolution in modern healthcare.
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October 2020 News and Views piece detailing our smart catheters with arrays of sensors and actuators in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
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July 2020 Sticker-like medical device streams symptom data to physicians.
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May 2020 Researchers at Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago have developed a novel wearable device and are creating a set of data algorithms specifically tailored to catch early signs and symptoms associated with COVID-19 and to monitor patients as the illness progresses.
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April 2020 In a recent publication in the journal Science Translational Medicine, Northwestern University researchers demonstrate next-generation flexible brain implants with more than a thousand electrodes can survive for more than six years.
from Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
March 2020 An interdisciplinary team of Northwestern University researchers has developed a new wireless, battery-charged, affordable monitoring system for newborn babies that can easily be implemented to provide clinical-grade care in nearly any setting.
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February 2020 Gatorade, Epicore Biosystems, and Northwestern University's Gx Sweat Patch TV Commercial, 'Push the Game Forward' Featuring Jayson Tatum
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November 2019 In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Rogers and his team at Northwestern report a new wireless and battery-free smart skin that could shift the course of this technology. Through a fast, programmable array of miniature vibrating disks embedded in a soft, flexible material, this smart skin can contour to the body and deliver sensory input -- what you'd feel when using it -- that Rogers says is quite natural.
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November 2019 Northwestern University researchers have developed a new thin, wireless system that adds a sense of touch to any virtual reality (VR) experience. Not only does this platform potentially add new dimensions to our long-distance relationships and entertainment, the technology also provides prosthetics with sensory feedback and imparts telemedicine with a human touch.
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November 2019 New Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics will expand the development of body-integrated electronic systems and enhance research collaborations
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October 2019 Four Feinberg faculty members have been honored with the election to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
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October 2019 Project receives NIH grant worth up to $10 million over next five years.
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May 2019 Sweating the Details: Prof. John Rogers with Chrissy Farr at CNBC Healthy Returns Conference.
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March 2019 Tiny wireless skin sensors are being tested to monitor stroke recovery and breathing disorders, but they could also help babies who are born prematurely, according to a new study in the journal Science.
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February 2019 Premature babies are often covered in wires. A Northwestern scientist's new invention could change that as detailed in new study published in the journal Science.
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January 2019 Elite athletes must listen carefully to their bodies during workouts and competition. Their muscles. Heart rate. And, sometime soon, maybe even their sweat. Northwestern scientists have created a soft, bandage-like device that collects and analyzes an athlete’s perspiration as they run, bike and even swim underwater.
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January 2019 A new device — wearable, wireless and battery free — improves the ability to monitor and diagnose health problems by analyzing the sweat on your skin.
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January 2019 Winner of CES 2019 Innovation Award, the My Skin Track pH will enable L'Oréal, Epicore Biosystems, and Northwestern University to develop a new wearable microfluidics product and conduct new clinical studies.
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December 2018 Wearable technology developed by John Rogers' Lab at Northwestern University and Epicore Biosystems was front and center recently in a new Gatorade commercial featuring tennis superstar Serena Williams.
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December 2018 The tennis legend talks about our sweat patch technology, why she’s pitching Gatorade, and what makes a successful brand partnership in new Fast Company article.
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December 2018 Wire-free devices that dissolve could expand the use of electric pulses in medicine.
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December 2018 A wireless, low-power optoelectronic platform, which is based on micro-LEDs, can provide multimodal programmable control over optogenetic stimulation parameters.
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December 2018 Northwestern Engineering's John A. Rogers has received the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Materials Engineering from The Franklin Institute, one of the oldest centers for science education and development in the country.
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December 2018 Smaller than an M&M and thinner than a credit card, device can optimize treatment of neonatal jaundice, skin diseases, seasonal affective disorder and reduce risk of sunburns and skin cancer.
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November 2018 In 2011, materials scientist John Rogers, now at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, made what he called epidermal electronics: thin sheets of circuits, the mechanical properties of which were engineered to match those of human skin. Using a suite of mechanical and materials-engineering techniques, Rogers made rigid silicon — the electronic industry’s material of choice — compatible with flexible and stretchable surfaces.
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November 2018 The future wearable skincare technology is roughly the size of an M&M. Launching today, L'Oréal’s La Roche-Posay My Skin Track UV sensor clips onto clothing and measures the wearer’s exposure to UV radiation, a form of radiation that is known to damage skin and, in large amounts, cause skin cancer.
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November 2018 The brainchild of L’Oréal and Northwestern Engineers, the new My Skin Track/UV device, which just launched at select Apple stores and on apple.com, is the world’s first battery-free wearable electronic device to measure UV exposure.
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November 2018 A new wireless, Band-Aid-like sensor developed at Northwestern University could revolutionize the way patients manage hydrocephalus and potentially save the U.S. health care system millions of dollars.
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October 2018 Researchers at Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed the first example of a bioresorbable electronic medicine: an implantable, biodegradable wireless device that speeds nerve regeneration and improves the healing of a damaged nerve.
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August 2018 John A. Rogers, PhD, has created a fleet of wireless, wearable devices that have the potential to change the way physicians collect data and treat patients, from NICU preemies to stroke patients in recovery.
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April 2018 Press release from NIH that highlights our work on wireless, implantable LED systems for optogenetics control of bladder pain, originally published in the journal Pain.
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April 2018 Coffey writes a cover feature article in Optics and Photonics News that highlights our work on wireless, implantable LED systems for optogenetics, originally published in Neuron and commercially avaialble from Neurolux, Inc.
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March 2018 Song and Greenleaf write a News and Views piece in Nature Biomedical Engineering that highlights our work on millimeter-scale, piezoelectric modulus sensors capable of integration with biopsy needles for in situ, soft tissue characterization, originally published in Nature Biomedical Engineering
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March 2018 Northwestern University and Gatorade are developing a low-cost wearable skin patch that displays various colors to conveniently let the wearer know when they need to take a drink.
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March 2018 Eric Topol, editor-in-chief of Medscape, and Prof. John Rogers, Northwestern University Professor, sit down to discuss bioelectronics, biosensors and the future of medicine.
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February 2018 Scientists in the US are developing wearable sensors to speed up the recovery of stroke patients.
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February 2018 A groundbreaking new wearable designed to be worn on the throat could be a game-changer in the field of stroke rehabilitation.
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February 2018 John Rogers’ microfluidic device heads out of the lab and into widespread distribution with Gatorade, AbilityLab, and the Air Force.
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January 2018 Engadget's editors applied their extensive knowledge of the tech industry to scouring the show floor for the very best of the best at CES, choosing a winner in each of the 17 highly competitive categories based on level of innovation, design, market appeal and functionality.
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January 2018 Our wireless, battery-free, millimeter-scale UV dosimeters featured in a CES best-of-show video and article by USA Today, January, 2018.
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January 2018 Our wireless, battery-free, millimeter-scale UV dosimeters are launched as a joint product with LOreal at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January, 2018.
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October 2017 Northwestern engineer John Rogers has elevated his cutting edge invention, a “Lab on the Skin,” to a rare level of cultural notoriety as part of a new exhibit in New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In addition to multiple versions of the device itself, the exhibit includes an animated video from Northwestern to illustrate the technology and showcase potential future applications.
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March 2017 Rotenberg and Tian write a News and Views piece in Nature Biomedical Engineering that highlights our work on flexible, capacitively coupled electronics for chronic mapping of electrophysiology (Originally published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, March 2017)
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February 2017 A minimally invasive technique that accurately measures living muscle tissue could someday be used to diagnose and treat a wide range of movement disorders.
from Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
February 2017 Huang's work has led to major advances in stretchable and flexible electronics with biomedical applications.
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November 2016 The low-cost wearable electronic device developed by Professor John A. Rogers collects and analyzes sweat for health monitoring.
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November 2016 A new form of 3D imaging of muscles has allowed researchers to “see” inside muscle and trace long cables made up of a protein called collagen. Collagen cables are one culprit behind muscular diseases and injuries, so targeting them could provide treatments.
from Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
October 2016 Work by Mark Hersam, Yonggang Huang, Chad Mirkin, and John Rogers appear in the Novel Materials Special Feature.
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October 2016 Zhejiang University (ZJU) is one of China’s top higher education institutions, as well as one of its oldest; its roots can be traced back to 1897 and the founding of the Qiushi Academy.
from Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics
September 2016 The Society of Engineering Science bestows the award annually to a researcher with outstanding contributions in theoretical or experimental solid mechanics.
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September 2016 Yonggang Huang and Ilya Mikhelson received this year’s teaching award; Alex Birdwell received the award for advising.
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July 2016 Although the cause of CP remains a mystery, researchers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) are at the forefront of those working to understand, treat — and ultimately cure — this life-long neurological disorder.
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June 2016 IEEE is an association dedicated to advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity.
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September 2015 A Northwestern University research team has created complex 3-D micro- and nanostructures out of silicon found in advanced technologies using a new assembly method that uses cuts to advantage.
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August 2015 Rogers, currently the Swanlund Chair at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will hold the inaugural Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professorship.
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April 2015 Northwestern scientists have developed a new high-tech but simple ointment applied to the skin that may one day help diabetic patients heal ulcers on their feet.
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January 2015 Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new fabrication technique to create 3-D micro- and nanostructures with many advantages over 3-D printing.
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