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5G network emulation solutions to validate performance of new 5G devices
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2019 23:13
Keysight Technologies announced that Sprint has selected Keysight’s 5G network emulation solutions to validate the performance of 5G new radio (NR) mobile devices, accelerating U.S. 5G commercial deployment of fixed wi...
Compact four-channel 210-W switching supplies give noise, transient performance rivaling that of linears
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2019 21:27
The AIM-TTi MX100Q Series Power Supplies are versatile four-output laboratory power sources which use mixed-mode regulation to provide up to 210 W of power, shared by up to four outputs, in one compact case. Mixed-mode r...
Vacuum tubes we still (have to) use: The traveling wave tube, Part 1
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2019 17:24
The previous parts of this article explored the photomultiplier tube (Part 1 and Part 2), which is based on a simple, fairly clear physics principle, although building a high-performance PMT is an art and requires variou...
TT Electronics to acquire power supply design/manufacturing business to support growth in aerospace and defense
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2019 17:05
TT Electronics announces it has agreed to acquire a US-based business that designs and manufactures power electronics for defense and aerospace markets, enhancing TT's ability to engineer complete power converters. TT ha...
CUDA-X parallel computing platform and API libraries now available on ARM-based server processors
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2019 17:00
NVIDIA today announced its support for Arm CPUs, providing the high performance computing industry a new path to build extremely energy-efficient, AI-enabled exascale supercomputers. NVIDIA is making available to the Arm...
Multilayer band-pass filter handles millimeter wave bands in 5G networks
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2019 16:49
TDK Corporation has expanded its lineup of high-frequency multilayer products with the world's first multilayer band-pass filter for the 28 GHz band in 5G mobile communication networks. The new high-frequency component i...
Vacuum tubes we still (have to) use: The traveling wave tube, Part 2
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2019 12:00
We live in a world of solid-state active devices that have made most vacuum tubes obsolete, but a few types remain as they are still indispensable. The previous part of this article introduced the traveling wave tube and...
Improving the odds for patients with heart pumps
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(Yale University) A new Yale study shows that some patients being treated for severe heart failure with a battery-operated pump saw significant improvement after additionally using neurohormonal blockade (NHB) drug thera...
Researchers develop a database to aid in identifying key genes for bacterial infections
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) A team of scientists from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and the Centre de Regulació Genomica have created the BacFITBase database, which characterises bacterial genes relevant...
BU and BMC find pediatric behavioral health care integration shows promise
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(Boston University School of Medicine) A new study published in Health Services Research and led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher finds that, in the first year and a half of the program, ...
When do alcohol-dependent mothers parent harshly?
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of Rochester) While parents with substance use disorders are more likely to treat their children harshly, they don't do so all the time. What are the triggers? And how can substance-dependent mothers and thei...
'Face blindness' may involve a failed brain network, and could shed light on autism
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(Boston Children's Hospital) Face blindness often becomes apparent in early childhood, but people occasionally acquire it from a brain injury later in life. A new study of people who became face-blind after a stroke, led...
New advances in the treatment of advanced lung cancer
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of Barcelona) The University of Barcelona (UB) and Hospital Clínic de Barcelona collaborate with Boehringer Ingelheim Inc. to improve the efficiency of nintedanib, an antiangiogenic and antifibrotic drug, fo...
Chronic opioid therapy can disrupt sleep, increase risk of sleep disorders
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) Patients and medical providers should be aware that chronic opioid use can interfere with sleep by reducing sleep efficiency and increasing the risk of sleep-disordered breathing, acc...
Ayahuasca compound changes brainwaves to vivid 'waking-dream' state
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(Imperial College London) Scientists have peered inside the brain to show how taking DMT affects human consciousness by significantly altering the brain's electrical activity.
Cellular calpain proteases can cleave the enteroviral polyprotein
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of Jyväskylä - Jyväskylän yliopisto) Enteroviruses can cause severe diseases such as encephalitis or myocarditis, and have been associated with chronic diseases such as type 1 diabetes. In her dissertatio...
Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, Volume 4, Supplement 1 publishes
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications) Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, Volume 4, Supplement 1 publishes selected abstracts from the 30th Great Wall International Cardiology (GW-ICC) Conference, Beijin...
Avoidance of apoptotic death via a hyperploid salvage survival pathway after platinum treatment in high grade serous carcinoma cell line models
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(Impact Journals LLC) The cover for issue 62 of Oncotarget features Figure 7, 'Proposed model of the hyperploid pathway as a salvage survival strategy regulated by the G2-M checkpoint,' by Yeung, et al.
A new pathway to 'reprogram' killer cells
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of Bern) Killer cells of the immune system detect and kill infected cells or cancer cells. Researchers at the Institute of Pathology at the University of Bern have now discovered that the mechanism by which c...
Milestone reached in new leukemia drug
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Using a chemical compound called YKL-05-099, a team of cancer researchers from CSHL and the Dana Farber Institute was able to target the Salt-Inducible Kinase 3 (SIK3) pathway and extend s...
NIH awards Cleveland Clinic $12 M to study link between gut microbes, heart disease
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(Cleveland Clinic) The National Institutes of Health has awarded more than $12 million to Cleveland Clinic researchers to study the critical link between gut microbial pathways and the development of cardiometabolic dise...
Mapping the pathway to gut health in HIV and SIV infections
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of California - Davis Health) A UC Davis study found that Lactobacillus plantarum bacteria rapidly repaired damaged gut lining (known as leaky gut) in monkeys infected with chronic simian immunodeficiency vir...