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Morphing Origami Takes New Shape, Expanding Use Possibilities
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 18:00
News Origami-based structures have been used to create deployable solar arrays for space, adaptable acoustic systems for symphony halls and even crash protection systems for flying drones... Contributed Author: Georgia I...
2019 BioLegend William E. Paul Award for Excellence in Cytokine Research
EurekAlert! - 23 Apr 2019 08:00
(International Cytokine & Interferon Society) The ICIS has chosen Chen Dong, PhD as the recipient of the 2019 BioLegend William E Paul Award for Excellence in Cytokine Research in recognition of his transformative resear...
A Familiar Fungus May Help Us Defeat a Deadly One
Discover - 24 Apr 2019 01:49
It seems like every few years there's a virus or bacterium that threatens human health in a new way. But a new fungus that is a threat to humans? That doesn't happen very often. That's why we in the medical mycology comm...
Tuesdays with Roger: Entner and Rysavy Talk 5G Spectrum, Equipment Trends and More
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 21:43
Videos On this week's episode, special guest Peter Rysavy of Rysavy Research joins Recon Analytics' Roger Entner to talk 5G equipment trends, spectrum availability and needs, and why a nationalized 5G network is a bad id...
Feces transplantation: Effective treatment with economic benefits
EurekAlert! - 23 Apr 2019 08:00
(Aarhus University) From an average of 37 days in hospital to just 20 days per year. So pronounced is the decrease in hospitalizations for patients who are treated with feces transplantation instead of antibiotics to fig...
Verizon Expands Relationship with YouTube TV
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 21:19
News Verizon said it will offer "unique, high-value YouTube TV promotions" across platforms, though details on what kind of discount or pricing that might mean was not disclosed. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Tele...
Verizon's Vestberg: mmWave is 'Not a Coverage Spectrum,' Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Next Step
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 19:50
News As Verizon reported wireless service revenue growth in the first quarter, executives acknowledged that high-band millimeter wave spectrum will not be the frequencies to provide broad coverage and named dynamic spect...
A Magnetic Personality: Magnets May Help Robots Get Closer to Efficiency of Human Brain
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 18:53
News Computers and artificial intelligence continue to usher in major changes in the way people shop. It is relatively easy to train a robot's brain to create a shopping list, but what about ensuring that the robotic sho...
Connecting Airmen with Problem-Solving Innovators
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 18:30
News AFWERX is an air force program that connects airmen with problem-solving innovators to facilitate solutions, strengthen military effectiveness, and improve capabilities. "AFWERX is a separate entity within... Staff ...
Multistep Self-Assembly Opens Door to New Reconfigurable Materials
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 18:00
News Self-assembling synthetic materials come together when tiny, uniform building blocks interact and form a structure. However, nature lets materials like proteins of varying size and shape assemble, allowing for compl...
Redesigning the Fire Extinguisher to Suck Fire in Space
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 18:00
News Researchers have developed an unusual fire extinguisher that sucks flames and burning materials into a vacuum chamber. Once safely captured inside the chamber, the flames and materials are suffocated or extinguished...
UC Berkeley Innovations Speed Up 3D Bioprinting
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 17:30
Videos UC Berkeley has developed a device that may be key to the viability of bioprinting, an extension of 3D printing that allows living tissue, bone, blood vessels and even whole organs to be printed on demand... Contr...
Research Finds Telemedicine Stroke Patients Receive Consistent Care
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 17:15
News Stroke patients examined remotely by a teleneurologist were treated as quickly and effectively after hours as during normal business hours, according to new research by The University of Texas Health Science Center ...
Students Propose Fixing Fractured Bones with Magnetic Device
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 17:00
Videos Rice University seniors at the Brown School of Engineering are helping doctors repair fractured, long bones in an arm or leg by incorporating magnets to set things in place... Topics: Orthopedics
AI Diagnoses PTSD by Analyzing Voices
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 17:00
News A specially designed computer program can help diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans by analyzing their voices, a new study finds... Contributed Author: NYU Langone Health Topics: Neurology
Understanding Key Processes for Mixing APIs with Silicone
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 17:00
Article With its stability and biocompatible properties, silicone is leading the way to a new generation of drug delivery products and enhanced medical devices that will profoundly improve patient care... Contributed Aut...
Recovered Carbon Black for Multicolour Fluorescence Displays
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 16:58
News NUS physicists have discovered that recovered carbon black powder can be transformed by laser treatment to give a wide range of colours for potential display applications. Recovered carbon black powder... Contribute...
Successful Tests of a Cooler Way to Transport Electricity
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 16:56
News Like a metal python, the huge pipe snaking through a CERN high-tech hall is actually a new electrical transmission line. This superconducting line is the first of its kind and allows vast quantities of electrical......
Things Are Stacking up for NASA's Mars 2020 Spacecraft
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 16:54
News For the past few months, the clean room floor in High Bay 1 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been covered in parts, components and test equipment for the Mars 2020 spacecraft... Contr...
Indian Scientists Make Deepest Radio Images of the Sun
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 16:52
News The sun is the brightest object in the sky, and probably the most studied celestial object. Surprisingly, it still hosts mysteries that scientists have been trying to unravel for decades, for example, the origin of ...
Making Digital Tissue Imaging Better
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 16:50
News The issue: Even as digital pathology makes rapid advances worldwide--with more physicians analyzing tissue images on "smart" computers to diagnose patients--there are no reliable standards for the preparation and di...
Training Data for Autonomous Driving
Medical Design Technology - 23 Apr 2019 16:50
News Autonomous cars must perceive their environment true to reality. The corresponding algorithms are trained using a large number of image and video recordings. For the algorithm to recognize single image... Contribute...