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Blood Clot Dx

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:00:40 +0000

Blood clots can arise anywhere in the body, blocking blood flow and causing pain and other symptoms. The most serious types of clots, called deep vein thrombosis (DVT), typically form in the veins in the legs, and can break off and become lodged in a lung. This can cause a pulmonary embolism (PE), which is when blood flow to the lungs is prevented and can be fatal. The symptoms of PE resemble…

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Reachable – Restoring arm function after stroke

Jessica Leff — Fri, 31 May 2024 16:36:14 +0000

The Reachable project from Conor Walsh’s lab is a wearable shoulder device that assists patients with upper limb disability. Stroke survivor and collaborator, Julie Hahnke, shares her experience working with the research team, using the current prototype, and her hopes for how this technology could improve the rehabilitation outcomes of stroke patients and others suffering from upper limb…

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How can we restore mobility to the sick and injured?

Jessica Leff — Wed, 24 May 2023 14:21:36 +0000

Researchers at the Wyss Institute are working to improve treatment outcomes for patients suffering from reduced mobility. This video focuses on two platform technologies that could improve the quality of life for these patients: stochastic resonance and wearable soft robotics. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University…

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Harvard Wyss Institute’s eRapid multiplexed biosensor technology licensed to StataDX to enable new diagnostics for neurological, cardiovascular, and renal diseases

Mariel Schoen — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:58:22 +0000

By Benjamin Boettner (BOSTON) — Today the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Cambridge-based StataDX Inc. announced that the Wyss Institute’s affinity-based, multiplexed, electrochemical sensing technology, eRapid, has been licensed to the startup. The license, coordinated by Harvard’s Office of Technology Development (OTD)…

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Reimagining Robots to be Smaller, Softer, and Safer

Jessica Leff — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:39:16 +0000

Wyss Associate Faculty members, Conor Walsh and Rob Wood, discuss their visions for the future of bio-inspired soft robotics. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University…

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Wyss Technologies Top Harvard’s 2022 President’s Innovation Challenge

Seth Kroll — Mon, 09 May 2022 15:20:43 +0000

(BOSTON) – Students and selected alumni competed over the course of seven months for a share of $510,000 in the 2022 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC). On May 5, two teams won top prizes for technologies developed at the Wyss Institute. Benjamin Freedman, Ph.D. and the Limax Biosciences team won the $75,000 first-place prize in the Health & Life Sciences Track for their Tough…

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Soft Robots Aiding the Elderly and People with Physical Impairments

Jessica Leff — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:27:03 +0000

An interdisciplinary team at Harvard University School of Engineering and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University is building soft robots for older adults and people with physical impairments. Examples of these robots are the Assistive Hip Suit and Soft Robotic Glove, both of which have been included in the 2021-2022 Smithsonian Institution exhibit entitled “FUTURES.” Credit: Wyss Institute at…

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TEDMED: How wearable robots are transforming human mobility

Seth Kroll — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:14:50 +0000

As a patient struggling to walk after a serious accident on the drive across the country to graduate school, Kathleen O’Donnell became acutely aware of the role mobility can play in quality of life. With this new insight, Kathleen focused her studies on prosthetics and assisted devices. In her own words, “As I became more involved in medical robotics…I realized there are many non-traditional…

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Another trick up the immune system’s sleeve: regrowing blood vessels

Jessica Leff — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:57:16 +0000

By Lindsay Brownell (CAMBRIDGE, Mass) — Roughly 8.5 million people in the United States suffer from peripheral artery disease (PAD), a narrowing of the arteries in the legs or arms (frequently due to the buildup of fatty plaque) that can cut off blood flow to the limbs, causing tissue death, gangrene, and even amputation. Strategies to combat PAD by delivering compounds that promote angiogenesis…

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Conor Walsh Wins Presidential Early Career Award

Jessica Leff — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 18:48:14 +0000

By Lindsay Brownell (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — Earlier this month, President Donald J. Trump announced that Wyss Core Faculty member Conor Walsh, Ph.D. is among this year’s recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their…

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