A rice-sized, dissolvable pacemaker powered by light may revolutionize post-heart surgery care, especially for kids, while vanishing safely in the body.

The device is smaller than a grain of rice and can be paired with a soft, wireless wearable designed to be attached to the patient’s chest.

A self-powered, bioresorbable temporary pacemaker the size of a grain of rice has been developed by an international team of ...

Imagine never charging your phone again or having a pacemaker that lasts a lifetime. Scientists are developing tiny nuclear ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A dissolvable pacemaker that’s smaller than a grain of rice and powered by light could become an invaluable tool for saving the ...

The pacemaker also has a light-activated switch, and this is paired with a small heart rate sensor that the patient wears on their chest. When the latter detects the patient's heart slowing below ...

Lithium-ion batteries power your smartphone, electric vehicle, and wireless earbuds. However, even the best lithium-ion ...

Lithium-ion batteries, used in consumer devices and electric vehicles, typically last hours or days between charges. However, with repeated use, they degrade and need to be charged more frequently.

A new, tiny pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — developed at Northwestern University could play a sizable role in the future of medicine, according to the engineers who developed it.

A team led by Su-Il In, a professor at South Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, is developing an ...

Scientists have developed a prototype nuclear battery using radiocarbon that could power small devices for decades without ...

Though a Northwestern-developed quarter-size dissolvable pacemaker worked well in pre-clinical animal studies, cardiac surgeons asked if it was possible to make the device smaller. To reduce the size ...