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News Purdue researchers developed a robotic system that provides an advanced way to study the brain and how the individual neurons inside function. The Purdue software automates most of the work involved in the patch-cla...

Videos The Smart Coach Radar is a complete speed and video training system that empowers the modern athlete and coach in many sports with the ability to create and share a digital record of their progress... Contributed ...

Article Analog Devices' VSM platform gives designers of wearable devices a reference platform that can speed the time-to-market to develop wearable devices for medical applications... Contributed Author: Jan-Hein Broeder...

News An LA BioMed-supported study shows success in creating a new system for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention, examining the use of personalized text messages to alert subjects to take their HIV preexposure ...

News Researchers have investigated a novel Polyelectrolyte complex that provides a barrier to prevent adhesions in post-operative complications. This has the potential to avoid the need for a second surgery to remove the...

News Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers have created a smart wristband with a wireless connection to smartphones that will enable a new wave of personal health and environmental monitoring devices... Contributed ...

News The never-ending fight against bacteria has taken a turn in humanity's favor with the announcement of a tool that could give the upper hand in drug research... Contributed Author: Okinawa Institute of Science and Te...

News Robots can play an important role in the education of young people but will never fully replace teachers, a study suggests. Scientists say social robots are proving effective in the teaching of certain subjects, suc...

Videos OrCam Technologies, a wearable artificial vision innovator for people who are partially sighted, blind, have reading difficulties or reading fatigue, will demo the newly-released, next generation OrCam MyEye 2.0 a...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) CartiHeal, developer of Agili-C, a proprietary implant for the treatment of joint surface lesions, and two LSU Health New Orleans orthopaedic surgeons announced today t...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A team of researchers from Penn Medicine has developed the first mouse model with an IPF-associated mutation, which induces scarring and other damage similar to what is obs...

(George Washington University) Researchers from the George Washington University published an article in Trends in Parasitology outlining their lessons learned while creating vaccine candidates for hookworm and schistoso...

(North Carolina State University) Certain female mosquitoes quickly evolve more selective mating behavior when faced with existential threats from other invasive mosquito species, with concurrent changes to certain genet...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Terence M. Keane, PhD, professor of psychiatry and clinical psychology and assistant dean for research at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received the Presidential ...

(University of Leicester) Leicester's Hospitals and University of Leicester lead research into CKD.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) In a new study in cells, University of Illinois researchers have adapted CRISPR gene-editing technology to cause the cell's internal machinery to skip over a small portion of ...

(Nanyang Technological University) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have discovered a plant-based food preservative that is more effective than artificial preservatives.

(Kaiser Permanente) Kaiser Permanente researchers have received a major grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to examine the role of opioid use in suicide risk and develop better tools to help clinicians identi...

(International Osteoporosis Foundation) The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) Bone & Diabetes Working Group has published 'Diagnosis and management of bone fragility in diabetes: an emerging challenge' an exper...

(Gladstone Institutes) A group of researchers from the Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco (UCSF), and UC Berkeley used a systematic approach to get an entirely new look at the way tuberculosis infects people. Their s...

(The Hastings Center) Advanced directives for dementia, differentiating obese children from abused children, and more in the (July-August 2018 issue.

(University of Oklahoma) The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center announced the nationally competitive renewal of a $20 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a part of the Nation...