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Videos Voice interfaces like Alexa have become an integral part of technology, but what about people who don't communicate using speech? This is what inspired Abhishek Signh to create a mod that allows Alexa to understan...

Videos Voice interfaces like Alexa have become an integral part of technology, but what about people who don't communicate using speech? This is what inspired Abhishek Signh to create a mod that allows Alexa to understan...

Product Announcement Global technology leader Laird has launched a high performance thermoelectric assembly (TEA) series for indoor lab environments that offers a higher cooling performance per unit volume... Contributed...

News New trials of a breakthrough swallowable sensor have revealed the device is 3,000 times more accurate than current technology used to diagnose many gut disorders... Contributed Author: RMIT University Topics: Implan...

News Q.E.D. Environmental Systems now offers a range of VIASENSOR gas analyzers for medical and dental facility applications, including operating room background nitrous oxide (N2O) levels, piped hospital gas levels, N2O...

Article A new review looks at the industry of measuring 'every breath you take and every move you make.' Wearable devices are increasingly bought to track and measure health, but the truth is we know very little about ho...

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) In a novel approach to improving outcomes for children, a pediatric hospital worked with community partners to address neighborhood effect syndrome as a target for pediatric health care -...

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) New book explores how Africans developed scientific knowledge of the deadly tsetse fly.

(University of Zurich) Leaders are more willing to take responsibility for making decisions that affect the welfare of others. In a new study, researchers at the University of Zurich identified the cognitive and neurobio...

(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) Pregnant women who had low plasma levels of long chain n-3 fatty acids in their first and second trimesters were at a significantly higher risk of early preterm birth when comp...

(Monash University) Henipaviruses are among the deadliest known viruses and have no effective treatments. They include Hendra, lethal to humans and horses, and the Nipah virus, a serious threat in parts of Asia. Research...

(British Heart Foundation) Research from the UK has found that people exposed to even low levels of air pollution have heart remodelling, similar to that seen in the early stages of heart failure.

(Stowers Institute for Medical Research) Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and collaborators have identified a way to expand blood-forming, adult stem cells from human umbilical cord blood (hUCB...

(Tokyo Institute of Technology) A study by Tokyo Tech researchers has developed a new technique to decode motor intention of humans from Electroencephalography. This technique is motivated by the well documented ability ...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital published this week in Science Immunology models allergic lung inflammation and provides new insights into how asthma develops...

(University of Liverpool) New research, published in Thorax, funded by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust has shown that babies with cystic fibrosis (CF) are born weighing less than babies without the condition, even allowing tha...

(University of California - Riverside) Brandon Brown, an HIV researcher at the University of California, Riverside's School of Medicine, is the lead author on a study published today in the journal Medicine, in which he ...

(University of Iowa) University of Iowa researchers have found that older people are less likely than younger people to realize when they've made a mistake. The finding offers new insight into how aging adults perceive t...

(Tokyo Institute of Technology) Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology developed a fast and practical technique using a micro-flow reactor for the synthesis of pure N-carboxy anhydrides (NCAs). They exploited the ad...

(George Washington University) Transgender individuals may be at higher risk for heart disease, according to a review article published by Michael S. Irwig, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the George Washington ...

(University of Exeter) A study in PLOS Genetics used a unique cohort of over 700 pairs of twins to identify the factors influencing chemical modifications to DNA across the genome. The study compared found that epigeneti...

(University of California - Davis Health System) UC Davis researchers have shown that low levels of cytomegalovirus (CMV) have a significant impact on microbe and immune cell populations and how the immune system respond...