CardioMEMS Moves Closer to Commercializing Innovative Sensors for Heart Patients

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CardioMEMS, a member of Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), is pioneering a new breed of testing devices to monitor heart patients. Combining wireless communications technology with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) fabrication, CardioMEMS’ products can provide doctors with more information while making testing less invasive for patients.

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Research points to methods for recovering petroleum

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Using math model, NJIT professor names MVP and Cy Young award contenders

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School voucher adoption affected by political decision-making

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Revealing the evolutionary history of threatened sea turtles

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Scientists view both Obama, McCain as supportive

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(AP) -- Call it the political revenge of the nerds. For nearly eight years, many mainstream scientists have been frustrated with the Bush administration. They've claimed that science has been censored, ignored and politicized ...

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