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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have learned how to mass produce tiny mechanical devices that could help cell phone users avoid the nuisance of dropped calls and slow downloads. The devices are designed to ease congestion over the airwaves to improve the performance of cell phones and other portable devices.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Purdue researchers may be close to a breakthrough in glucose testing. Tim Fisher, a professor of mechanical engineering, and a team of four other people, created a sensor able to detect glucose in fluids like tears and saliva.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A new "nano machine shop" that shapes nanowires and ultrathin films could represent a future manufacturing method for tiny structures with potentially revolutionary properties.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have created a new type of biosensor that can detect minute concentrations of glucose in saliva, tears and urine and might be manufactured at low cost because it does not require many processing steps to produce.