Medical News
Long-lived roundworms helped identify new anti-aging compounds among FDA approved drugs
EurekAlert! - 22 May 2019 06:00
(Gero) Researchers from Gero, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) collaborated to derive a tr...
Army Futures Leveraging Mission Command for Effective Soldier, Robot Teams
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 18:25
News Army Futures Command is developing new mission command concepts that will enable Soldiers and robots to operate as effective teams in the future. Mission command is the Army's philosophy of command... Contributed Au...
Data Science Helps Engineers Discover New Materials for Solar Cells and LEDS
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 23:42
News Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a high-throughput computational method to design new materials for next generation solar cells and LEDs. Their approach generated 13 new... Contribu...
After Studying Mice, Scientists Worry Space Travel Could Harm Human Joints
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 21:18
News While space travel is likely to remain only a pipe dream for most of us, scientists are intrigued about what effects weightlessness and being millions of miles up have on human physiological systems. A recent Henry ...
How to Program Materials
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 21:08
News Ali Gooneie simulates on his computer what holds the world together right at its very core: atoms, molecules, molecular chains and bundles - then lumps and fibers, which emerge thereof. With his calculations... Cont...
NUS Pilot Study Opens New Possibilities for AI to Enhance Cognitive Performance
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 21:00
News In a recent pilot study, researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have shown that a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) platform known as CURATE.AI could potentially be used to customise trainin...
Strain Enables New Applications of 2D Materials
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 20:36
News Physicists from the University of Belgrade in Serbia believe they've found a way to manipulate superthin, waferlike monolayers of superconductors, such as graphene, a monolayer of carbon, thus changing the... Contri...
Allegro IVD 6MP Smart Camera
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 17:03
Product Announcement The JADAK Allegro In-Vitro Diagnostic 6MP Smart Camera is the intelligent solution for the IVD Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). Specifically designed to perform standard pre-analytical IVD task...
Catch a Glimpse of the Spacecraft That'll Carry NASA's Mars 2020 Rover
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 15:02
News NASA will send its next rover to Mars in 2020. It's about the size of a car (10 ft long without its arm, 9 ft wide, and 7 ft tall), and was modeled after Curiosity's configuration. In the image below featured in a.....
Average Monthly Broadband Usage Up 27% in Q1, Driven By Internet-Only Subs: OpenVault
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 19:08
News More 1TB "power users" and an increasing number of internet-only subscribers helped drive average monthly broadband consumption up 27 percent in the first quarter of 2019, according to data from OpenVault. Staff Aut...
Mathematical Technique Quickly Tunes Next-Generation Lenses
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 18:33
News Most of us know optical lenses as curved, transparent pieces of plastic or glass, designed to focus light for microscopes, spectacles, cameras, and more. For the most part, a lens' curved shape has not changed much ...
How to 3-D-Print a Bathroom in One Day
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 18:22
Videos Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed the capability to 3-D print an unfurnished bathroom in less than a day. After printing, the bathroom is furnished... Cont...
New Technique Promises Improved Metastatic Prostate Cancer Detection
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 18:17
News Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of male cancer deaths worldwide. Deaths from prostate cancer are primarily due to metastasized cancer, in which cancer cells have migrated through the body and begun to gr...
With a Hop, a Skip and a Jump, High-Flying Robot Leaps Through Obstacles with Ease
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 18:15
Videos Topping out at less than a foot, Salto the robot looks like a Star Wars imperial walker in miniature. But don't be fooled by its size -- this little robot has a mighty spring in its step. Salto can vault over thre...
Qualcomm to Appeal Judge's Ruling in FTC Antitrust Case
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 18:12
News Qualcomm plans to seek an immediate stay and appeal of a federal judge's ruling that the company violated antitrust law related to its licensing practices. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Contracts
New Lidar Instruments Peer Skyward for Clues on Weather and Climate
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 18:12
News Researchers have developed a set of diode-based lidar instruments that could help fill important gaps in meteorological observations and fuel a leap in understanding, modeling and predicting weather and climate... C...
How Usable Is Virtual Reality?
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 18:10
News Virtual Reality and the virtual world are taking over more and more areas of our lives. This means that it is really important that virtual worlds are user-friendly and offer a high usability. Up until now, the only...
Bring on Faster Internet: Device Packs More into Optical Fiber
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 18:08
News A research team has developed a light beam device that could lead to faster internet, clearer images of space and more detailed medical imaging. University of Queensland researcher and optical engineer... Contribute...
Army-Funded Research Boosts Memory of AI Systems
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 18:05
News A project of the U.S. Army has developed a new framework for deep neural networks that allows artificial intelligence systems to better learn new tasks while forgetting less of what they have learned in previous tas...
Algorithm Steers Catheters to the Right Spot to Treat Atrial Fibrillation
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 17:57
News Patients with atrial fibrillation or AFib experience chaotic electrical signals in the upper chamber of their heart (atria), which cause an irregular or quivering heartbeat (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots ...
Creating Integrated Circuits That Can Generate Chaotic Signals
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 17:55
News Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have found a simple, yet highly versatile way to generate "chaotic signals" with various features. The technique consists of interconnecting three ring oscillators... Con...
How 'Doping' Boosts Next-Gen Solar Cells Towards Commercialisation
Medical Design Technology - 22 May 2019 17:39
News An international team of researchers has brought a new generation of solar cells a step closer to commercialisation, by showing how sunlight can trigger a 'healing process' in the cells to improve their efficiency a...