Temporary pacemaker can be injected, fits any size patient, including babies, and eliminates need to remove it.

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

The mini pacemaker device does not have a separate battery. Instead its body functions as a simple type of battery called a ...

Though a Northwestern-developed quarter-size dissolvable pacemaker worked well in pre-clinical animal studies, cardiac surgeons asked if it was possible to make the device smaller. To reduce the size ...

A light-activated pacemaker dissolves in the body after use, offering safer, wireless heart care - especially for newborns ...

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

The new device is smaller than a grain of rice and gets absorbed by the patient’s body when it’s no longer needed, ...

Although it can work with hearts of all sizes, the pacemaker is particularly well-suited to the tiny, fragile hearts of ...

Scientists said Wednesday they have developed the world's tiniest pacemaker, a temporary heartbeat regulator smaller than a ...

The device is smaller than a grain of rice and can be paired with a soft, wireless wearable designed to be attached to the ...

Smaller than a grain of rice, this pacemaker runs on a galvanic cell that uses body fluids to generate electricity. It can detect irregular heartbeats and be activated using infrared light pulses.