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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.

Author: McGrane, Sally
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2008
Italy, Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing, Apparel & Related Products, Apparel Manufacturing, Electromedical equipment, Consumer Medical Monitors, Health aspects, Innovations, Clothing and dress, Works, Clothing, Health monitors, Biomedical engineers, De Rossi, Danilo

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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.

Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2005
Drugs, HEALTH SERVICES, Ambulatory Health Care Services, Therapeutic Procedures, Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Therapeutics, Homeopathy, Bacterial proteins, Bacterial vaccines

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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.

Author: McGrane, Sally
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2007
Health and beauty aids, Personal care products, Hygiene products, Tolaas, Sissel

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