A new, tiny pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — developed at Northwestern University near Chicago could play a sizeable role in the future of medicine, according to the engineers who developed ...

The world’s smallest pacemaker, developed by Northwestern researchers, has been named one of the “Best Inventions of 2025” by Time magazine. The pacemaker — created by a team of engineers led by ...

A wireless, dissolvable pacemaker could revolutionize treatment for the more than one in 15,000 babies born with congenital heart defects each year. Existing, wired pacemakers risk tissue scarring and ...

CHICAGO, Ill. — Cardiac pacemakers require wires to be implanted in the chest to help control the patient’s heartbeat. But now researchers have developed the first-ever wireless, battery-free pacing ...

A pacemaker that’s smaller than a grain of rice and can be injected into the heart through the skin, without the need for surgery, has been invented by scientists. Pacemakers use electric pulses to ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have created the world's smallest pacemaker, which is small enough to fit inside the tip of a syringe and be injected into the body without surgery. With ...

From flexible electronic monitors the size of a Band-Aid to tiny pacemakers that dissolve harmlessly in the body when no longer needed — the work of the Querrey Simpson Institute of Bioelectronics at ...