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The Dartmouth
Students advance in NASA competition
A team of eight Dartmouth students was one of five finalists for NASA’s Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-Changing Idea Challenge.
Apr 25, 2019
Design News
Tiny Device Harvests Energy from the Heart
Dartmouth engineers have developed a tiny device that can be integrated into pacemakers to harvest energy from the heart, eliminating the need for batteries.
Apr 25, 2019
engineering.com
New Device Enables the Heart to Power Life-Saving Devices
A device developed by researchers from Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth as part of a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Apr 25, 2019
Digital Trends
Energy-harvesting gizmo powers medical implants using your own heartbeat
“In this work, we developed a new design for energy harvesting that can be miniaturized and integrated within existing pacemakers,” says Dartmouth engineering professor Zi Chen.
Apr 25, 2019
CNET
Scientists want to power pacemakers with energy from your heart
Researchers at Dartmouth are working on a thin polymer applied to existing pacemakers that could harvest the heart's mechanical energy to charge the battery.
Apr 25, 2019
Engadget
Self-charging pacemakers are powered by patients' heartbeats
Colleagues at Thayer and UT Health San Antonio have invented a dime-sized device that turns the kinetic energy of the heart into electricity that could power a range of implantable devices.
Apr 25, 2019
Xconomy
Alector IPO Banks $176M to Test Alzheimer's Drugs in Clinical Trials
Professor Tillman Gerngross's company, Alector, which offers an immunotherapy approach to Alzheimer’s disease, has raised approximately $176 million in an initial public offering.
Apr 15, 2019
QUARTZ
In Greenland and Antarctica, supposedly "safe" ice is melting alarmingly fast
Ninety-seven percent of the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet melted in 2012, a level of ice melt the island hasn’t seen since 1889, according to Kaitlin Keegan, a Dartmouth engineering research associate who studies arctic ice.
Jan 31, 2019