Medical News
Bacteria's protein quality control agent offers insight into origins of life
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2019 06:00
(Scripps Research Institute) The discoveries not only offer new directions for fighting the virulence of some of humanity's most dangerous pathogens, they have implications for our understanding of how life itself evolve...
Sound Waves Bypass Visual Limitations to Recognize Human Activity
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 23:30
News Video cameras continue to gain widespread use to monitor human activities for surveillance, health care, home use and more, but there are privacy and environmental limitations in how well they work. Acoustical waves...
Beyond 1 and 0: Engineers Boost Potential for Creating Successor to Shrinking Transistors
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 23:00
News Computers and similar electronic devices have gotten faster and smaller over the decades as computer-chip makers have learned how to shrink individual transistors, the tiny electrical switches that convey digital in...
'Slothbot' Takes a Leisurely Approach to Environmental Monitoring
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 22:30
News For environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, infrastructure maintenance and certain security applications, slow and energy efficient can be better than fast and always needing a recharge. That's where "Sloth...
A Prosthetic Foot That Tackles Tough Terrain
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 22:24
Videos Stanford University mechanical engineers have developed a more stable prosthetic leg--and a better way of designing them--that could make challenging terrain more manageable for... Contributed Author: Nathan Colli...
Sensor-Packed Glove Learns Signatures of the Human Grasp
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 22:02
News Wearing a sensor-packed glove while handling a variety of objects, MIT researchers have compiled a massive dataset that enables an AI system to recognize objects through touch alone. The information could be... Cont...
New Organic Flow Battery Brings Decomposing Molecules Back to Life
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 22:00
News After years of making progress on an organic aqueous flow battery, Harvard University researchers ran into a problem: the organic anthraquinone molecules that powered their ground-breaking battery were slowly decomp...
Tempted to Cheat on a Written Exam? Artificial Intelligence is 90 Percent Certain to Nab You
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 21:32
News Combining big data with artificial intelligence has allowed University of Copenhagen researchers to determine whether you wrote your assignment or whether a ghostwriter penned it for you--with... Contributed Author:...
The Most Complete Study of Battery Failure Sees the Light
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 20:53
News An international team of researchers just published in Advanced Energy Materials the widest study on what happens during battery failure, focusing on the different parts of a battery at the same time... Contributed ...
Sprint Launches Mid-Band 5G in 4 Markets
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 19:37
News Sprint on Thursday announced its mobile 5G network is now live in four markets, covering nearly 3.6 million people from the onset. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Carriers
Spotlight On: OKW Enclosures, Inc.
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 18:18
Article How often have you heard, "It's what's inside that counts?" This common saying applies to how engineers typically feel when it comes to electronic products, focusing on the tiny components that make the overall d...
Study: Global Surgical Lasers Market to Surpass $2 Billion in U.S
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 16:32
News According to Coherent Market Insights, the global surgical lasers market was valued at US $1.4 billion in 2017, and is projected to exhibit a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.4 percent over... Contributed Aut...
More Than a Love Gesture: Roses Inspire Water Purification System
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 15:49
News A new device for collecting and purifying water, developed at The University of Texas at Austin, was inspired by a rose and, while more engineered than enchanted, dramatically improves on... Staff Author: Spencer Ch...
Every Bat Travels Differently
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 14:45
News The females of some bat species migrate hundreds of kilometers after hibernation to give birth to their offspring in insect-rich regions. Unlike birds, it is largely unknown how bats keep their energy consumption......
Problem Solvers by Design
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 14:35
News Rats on campus, disruptive noise pollution, and costly deep-sea research seem to have nothing in common--except that they could all be solved using an engineering design approach. Students in the Harvard John A. Pau...
Biotech Startup Uses Nanoparticles to Induce Immune Tolerance
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 14:30
News More than 100 approved drugs in the U.S. warn of immune-related side effects on their labels. Countless others never make it onto shelves because of unwanted immune responses that can harm patients and limit the eff...
Flex Power Modules Announces Encapsulated Sixteenth-Brick DC-Dc Converters for Industrial/Railway and Telecom Applications
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2019 14:30
Product Announcement Flex Power Modules introduces the PKU-S series of DC-DC power modules for the industrial/railway and telecom sectors, to provide highly reliable, high performance and rugged DC-DC solutions. The modu...
Concussion symptoms reversed by magnetic therapy
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2019 06:00
(University of Saskatchewan) Concussion symptoms -- such as loss of balance and ability to walk straight -- can be reversed by a new type of magnetic stimulation
Cold-parenting linked to premature aging, increased disease risk in offspring
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2019 06:00
(Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center) New research out of Loma Linda University Health suggests that unsupportive parenting styles may have several negative health implications for children, even into ...
Annual Report to the Nation: Overall cancer mortality continues to decline
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2019 06:00
(NIH/National Cancer Institute) For all cancer sites combined, cancer death rates continued to decline in men, women, and children in the United States from 1999 to 2016. Overall cancer incidence rates, or rates of new c...
IU cancer researcher, collaborators earn $4.1 million grant from Cancer Moonshot
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2019 06:00
(Indiana University) A team of researchers from Indiana University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have been awarded a $4.1 million National Cancer Institute 'Cancer Moonshot' grant to develop immunotherapy tr...
Circadian clock and fat metabolism linked through newly discovered mechanism
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2019 06:00
(Princeton University) Princeton University researchers found that the enzyme Nocturnin, known for its role in fat metabolism and circadian rhythm, acts on two well-established molecules in metabolism. The discovery shed...