Because the human heart requires only a small amount of electrical stimulation, researchers were able to shrink their ...

The new device is smaller than a grain of rice and gets absorbed by the patient’s body when it’s no longer needed, ...

Engineers at Illinois' Northwestern University have developed the tiniest pacemaker you'll ever see. It's several times ...

The world's tiniest pacemaker - smaller than a grain of rice—can be implanted using minimally invasive techniques and ...

Although it can work with hearts of all sizes, the pacemaker is particularly well-suited to the tiny, fragile hearts of ...

The venue, which opened in 1997, was officially named the world's smallest commercial theatre by the Guinness Book of World ...

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.

The device is smaller than a grain of rice — and is suited particularly to help newborn babies with congenital heart defects.

This makes it easily injectable, even for the smallest of patients. The pacemaker was designed to help treat congenital heart ...

Credit: John A. Rogers/Northwestern University "We have developed what is, to our knowledge, the world's smallest pacemaker," said Northwestern bioelectronics pioneer John A. Rogers, who led the ...

The tiny device developed by Professors John Rogers, Igor Efimov, and Yonggang Huang can be inserted with a syringe, and then dissolve after it’s no longer needed.