Special Issue: Microscale Medical Devices

Special Issue on Organic Electronic Bio-Devices

The aim of the present editorial is to briefly summarize the current scientific and technological accomplishments in the field of organic electronic biosensors as described in the articles published in this Special Issue. By definition, a biosensor is a robust analytical device that combines a biological recognition element (e.g., antibodies, enzymes, cells) with a transducer. Organic electroni...

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Special Issue on "MEMS/NEMS Fabricated Tissue Scaffolding Devices".

Over the past decade, tissue engineering in the field of medicine has proven to provide alternative therapies for tissue or organ implants, especially providing a functional implantation and avoiding immune rejection of tissues and organs. [...].

Introduction to the special issue: sleep in pediatric medical populations.

Children and adolescents with acute and chronic medical conditions such as asthma, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and sickle cell disease (SCD) are reported to have more frequent and severe problems with sleep than their healthy peers (Passarelli et al., 2006; Yuksel et al., 2007). Multiple factors, including both acute and chronic pain (Palermo, 2000), underlying disease processes, concurrent ...

Special issue: Advances in medical intelligent decision support systems

This special issue is concerned with Advances in Medical Decision Support Systems. Computer science contributions to the biomedical community started with the first expert systems. Since then advances have taken place in both the medical and biological domains and also in computer science technology. This means that additional automated support can be made available to these types of applicatio...