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

Because the human heart requires only a small amount of electrical stimulation, researchers were able to shrink their ...

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, ...

A rice-sized, dissolvable pacemaker powered by light may revolutionize post-heart surgery care, especially for kids, while vanishing safely in the body.

A self-powered, bioresorbable temporary pacemaker the size of a grain of rice has been developed by an international team of ...

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

Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe—and be ...

The world's tiniest pacemaker - smaller than a grain of rice—can be implanted using minimally invasive techniques and ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have unveiled the smallest pacemaker ever, the size of a grain of rice, which provides a temporary solution for ...