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Engineers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe -- no bigger than a Band-Aid -- is portable, wearable and can be powered by a smartphone.

In the lab University of Connecticut researchers (from left to right): Kazem Kazerounian, Thanh Nguyen, Feng Lin, Thinh Le, Meysam Chorsi and Horea Ilies. The biodegradable ultrasonic transducer is ...

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