The next major innovations in medicine could be on the drawing boards in Detroit, including a bra with ultrasound that can detect breast cancer and a miniature wireless pump to help millions of Americans with failing hearts. The medical inventions are among more than dozen in development at the new Henry Ford Health System Innovation Institute, a think tank for creating medical products opening Monday on Henry Ford\'s Detroit campus. The institute unites Detroit medical and biotechnology researchers at Henry Ford and Wayne State University with engineering, design and medical students from a half-dozen area schools. A major collaboration for the new institute involves Wayne State's College of Engineering, where microchip technology expert Gregory Auner is working on more than a half-dozen projects, including several using Raman spectroscopy for cancer detection. Auner\'s team also is making a miniature heart-assist pump for people with congestive heart failure, a common problem in elderly patients. And a team he heads is developing a 4D ultrasound device inserted into a silicone bra that immediately picks up signals of cancerous cells. A photo of Auner is included.

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