David Healy’s Linfield today popped the bubbly to celebrate their title win after winning their first Big Two showdown of the ...

David Healy’s Linfield today popped the bubbly to celebrate their title win after winning their first Big Two showdown of the ...

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 ...

On 2 April 2025, engineers at Northwestern University published a study on a new dissolvable pacemaker, smaller than a grain ...

Northwestern engineers unveiled what they say is the smallest pacemaker in the world in a study published in the journal Nature.

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.

Smaller than a rice grain, the dissolvable soft device is meant to help newborn babies with congenital heart defects.

Developed by engineers from Northwestern University, the pacemaker is the size of a grain of rice and could help save babies ...

Engineers from Northwestern University have developed a pacemaker that is thought to be the smallest in the world. A pacemaker is a device placed in a body to send an electrical pulse to the heart to ...

“We have developed what is, to our knowledge, the world’s smallest pacemaker,” said Rogers in a statement. “There’s a crucial need for temporary pacemakers in the context of pediatric heart surgeries, ...

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