Ready to ware: Danilo De Rossi's clothes look hip and track your vital signs, too
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Biomedical engineer Danilo De Rossi creates clothing that monitors the wearer's vital signs through the use of sensors built into the garment. Other areas of research that De Rossi runs include a shirt that lets disabled people control wheelchairs through shoulder nudges and gloves that translate sign languages through a computer.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2008
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Turning bugs into drugs
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Projects are undertaken to create medicines that would treat at the right place in a body. Biotechnologists are in search of little creatures or bacteria to induce drug doses inside our immune system. They are also trying to turn inactive molecules into therapeutics, edit toxic bacterial genes and to put genes for human proteins.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2005
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The odor artist
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The range of personal care products developed by Sissel Tolaas for Prada and Calvin Klein are described.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2007
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