Medical News
Researchers identify how metabolites target brain-homing immune cells to treat MS
EurekAlert! - 28 Feb 2019 09:00
(Advanced Science Research Center, GC/CUNY) A newly published paper featured on the March cover of the journal Brain details how metabolites can be used to inhibit epigenetic mechanisms and effectively treat multiple scl...
IBM Joins Forces to Highlight How 5G, Cloud Computing, and AI Are Transforming Businesses
Medical Design Technology - 1 Mar 2019 01:18
News At the Mobile World Congress, companies have started to highlight how the combination of 5G, cloud computing, and AI are changing the way individuals live and how they're transforming businesses. Staff Author: Tiern...
5G Sinks Its Way Into OceanAlpha's 5G Unmanned Ship
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 22:57
News With all the talk about 5G, MWC didn't disappoint with exploring different avenues to deploy 5G. Developed by Ericsson, China Mobile, and OceanAlpha, a 5G unmanned boat was revealed at a live Broadband IoT demo. Sta...
No, You Probably Can't Make up for Lost Sleep on the Weekends
Discover - 28 Feb 2019 20:00
There are only so many hours in the day, and when work or school sucks up eight of them, it can be hard to squeeze in time for family, friends, exercise or binging Netflix. As a result, we often don't get those eight hou...
A Femur's Journey Into Putty: The Hidden World of Bone Transplants
Discover - 28 Feb 2019 19:55
A 17th-century Russian nobleman named Butterlijn had a bone to pick with his surgeon. Butterlijn, the story goes, had been struck in the head with a sword, and his surgeon repaired the injury by transplanting a piece of ...
Complete Reference Designs for Railway Applications
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 19:52
Product Announcement The R-REF04-RIA12-1 and R-REF04-RIA12-2 are complete reference designs for railway applications. The R-REF04-RIA12-1 board is populated with components rated for higher DC input voltages up to... Con...
Electric Concept Vehicle with 5G Connectivity
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 18:46
Videos Combining best of a car and a motorcycle, Spanish automaker SEAT announced its fully electric concept vehicle called Minimó, at this year's MWC Barcelona. This two seater car isn't exactly roomy at 2.5 m long, an...
Radar and Laser Scans Find Buried Structures Underneath Alcatraz Island
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 18:08
Videos Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York, were set to uncover the secrets that lie beneath Alcatraz penitentiary's former recreation yard, now a national historic landmark. The team... St...
Virtual Reality May Reveal How Time is Perceived in Space
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 18:08
News Einstein's time-dilation hypothesis states "that time slows down the faster you travel," according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Flying atomic clocks aboard aircraft have verified the hypothesis, and... Staff ...
Online Intervention Shows Promise in HIV Prevention
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 18:00
News An innovative online intervention tool shows promise in decreasing sexual risk-taking and promoting HIV/STI prevention behaviors among YGBMSM as they meet partners online... Contributed Author: University of Pennsyl...
Destructive Drone Designed to Crash Into Ground While Taking Down Target
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 18:00
Videos Kalashnikov, a Russian manufacturing giant, has revealed a new drone that's designed to crash into the ground and take down targets with it... Staff Author: Tierney King Topics: Product Design and Development
Wide Area Detection among Eight Finalists for AFIMSC's Inaugural 'Innovation Rodeo'
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 17:54
News John Shackell, a force protection business consultant with the Air Force Security Forces Center at JBSA-Lackland, once had an idea "before its time." "Over a decade ago, I worked in the Force Protection Battlelab......
On its 5th Anniversary, GPM Still Right as Rain
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 17:50
Videos Five years ago, on Feb. 27, 2014, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint satellite project by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), lifted off aboard a Japanese... C...
Blinking Ground Lights Developed to Ensure Pedestrian Traffic Safety
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 17:44
News The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT, President Seung Heon Han) has announced the development of its "next-generation pedestrian traffic accident prevention system." The system... C...
Sandia Spiking Tool Improves Artificially Intelligent Devices
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 17:42
News Whetstone, a software tool that sharpens the output of artificial neurons, has enabled neural computer networks to process information up to a hundred times more efficiently than the current industry standard... Con...
New Material Holds Promise for More Secure Computing
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 17:40
Videos As computers advance, encryption methods currently used to keep everything from financial transactions to military secrets secure might soon be useless, technology experts warn. Reporting today in the journal... C...
Cross-Domain Flash Microcontroller Features Virtualization
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 17:38
Product Announcement Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the world's first microcontroller (MCU) with embedded flash that integrates a hardware-based virtualization -assisted function while maintaining the fast, re...
Supercomputers Can Spot Cyber Threats
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 17:38
News Identifying cybersecurity threats from raw internet data can be like locating a needle in a haystack. The amount of internet traffic data generated in a 48-hour period, for example, is too massive for one or even......
5G NR Beam-steering Gateway Antennas
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 17:36
Product Announcement Taoglas announced the launch of the Taoglas 5G NR KSF.410, a new 5G millimeter wave beam-steering antenna targeting frequency bands 27.5 GHz to 28.35 GHz. The KSF.410, the industry's first antenna......
'Immunizing' Quantum Bits so That They Can Grow up
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 17:36
News Quantum computers will process significantly more information at once compared to today's computers. But the building blocks that contain this information - quantum bits, or "qubits" - are way too sensitive... Contr...
Low-Cost Ventilator Wins Sloan Health Care Prize
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 17:32
News If someone begins struggling to breathe on their own, machine ventilators are the best way to keep them alive. Unfortunately, the high price of the machines forces many hospitals in the poorest regions of the... Con...
The Benefits of Custom Antennas
Medical Design Technology - 28 Feb 2019 17:30
Blog The growing IoT (Internet of Things) market, with its huge variety of devices that span both commercial and consumer industries, is increasing the demand for intelligent wireless connectivity. Devices--which previou...