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This Defense Intelligence Agency reference document, dated 31 March 2010 (DIA-08-1003-020), was one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) program. It surveys biosensors and BioMEMS, covering brain-implanted neuroelectrodes, drug-delivery pumps, implantable glucose sensors, brain-machine interfaces, retinal prostheses, microfluidic lab chips, NASA cell culture systems, and microcantilever sensors. It concludes that the field is expanding rapidly toward nanomechanical systems.
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UNCLASSIFIED,';'F811. 8FFl81*L 1!1!11!! !IIILV Biosensors and BioMEMS: A Survey of the Present Field Introduction Biomedical sensors and implantable devices employing micro- electromechanical technology will be important to the future of biomedicine. Once just science fiction, the notion of a bionic man is now becoming a reality through the application of microscale technologies. Today it is not unusual to have a friend or family member who has an implantable device, such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, cochlear implant, biosensor, neurostimulator, or insulin pump. We have only seen the beginning of this technology development, and today's state-of-the-art implantable devices will be seen as crude and cumbersome tomorrow. With the rapid pace of development, it is probable that within the next two decades we will have as many medical treatments based on microdevices as there are pharmaceutical solutions today. This paper examines some of the most recent advances in the field, as well as the technologies that are likely to appear in the next few years. vi UNCLASSIFIED/ /r;Oll OFFlliiliR.li l!llili 811LV
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