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Industrial DIN rail-mount dc-dc converters deliver up to 250 W/output
Medical Design Technology - 24 Mar 2020 15:00
DIN rail=mount DDA dc-dc converters use step-down non-isolated power modules that operate from an input range of 9 up to 53 Vdc, with a wide adjustable output voltage range of 3.3 up to 24 V. The DDA is suited for genera...
A COVID-19 Treatment Might Already Exist in Old Drugs -- and Researchers Are Using Pieces of the Coronavirus to Find Them
Discover - 24 Mar 2020 23:00
There are 20,000 FDA approved drugs. One of them might fight COVID-19, if scientists can find it.
Strada Whisper cable receptacles allow for high-speed signal data rates
Medical Design Technology - 24 Mar 2020 22:31
TE Connectivity today announced the launch of its new Strada Whisper cable receptacles, which can allow engineers to start designing for up to 112G PAM-4 data rates in servers, switches and routers. These cable receptacl...
MCU starter kit targets industrial automation/measurement apps
Medical Design Technology - 24 Mar 2020 18:34
Renesas Electronics Corporation has introduced a new Renesas Solution Starter Kit (RSSK) for developers working with the 32-bit RX23E-A microcontroller (MCU), which features highly accurate analog front ends (AFE). The R...
Rugged, secure memory tokens for authentication applications
Medical Design Technology - 24 Mar 2020 18:31
ATEK Access Technologies announced the launch of its new Datakey CryptoAuthentication memory token line which gives embedded systems designers a rugged and secure portable memory device for authentication applications. T...
Open-frame power supplies now support power ranges of 150 W to 500 W
Medical Design Technology - 24 Mar 2020 18:24
ABB is expanding its CLP open-frame power supply product family to support a higher range of output voltages. The new additions to the product line increase its output voltage options to up to 54 volts DC and its output ...
Mini, high-voltage relays deliver minimum 1.5kV stand-off
Medical Design Technology - 24 Mar 2020 18:05
Pickering Electronics Ltd’s new Series 131 single-in-line (SIL) reed relays deliver a minimum stand-off of 1500V, switching up to 1000V, on a footprint of just 12.5mm x 3.7mm and a height of 6.6mm. They are designed fo...
Ethernet 800G Verification IP targets next-generation networking systems
Medical Design Technology - 24 Mar 2020 15:37
Synopsys, Inc. announced the availability of the industry’s first verification IP (VIP) and Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) source code test suite for Ethernet 800G. As the requirements for increased bandwidth...
5G is hot, keep your components and systems cool
Medical Design Technology - 24 Mar 2020 13:31
5G's antennas and the devices that drive them generate more heat than their LTE predecessors. That creates now cooling problems for wireless devices and systems. If you listen to and read all the hype surrounding 5G, you...
Changing how we think about warm perception
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) Perceiving warmth requires input from a surprising source: cool receptors. The finding published in Neuron by neuroscientists at the MDC challeng...
Co-occurring contaminants may increase NC groundwater risks
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(Duke University) Eighty-four percent of the wells sampled in the Kings Mountain Belt and the Charlotte and Milton Belts of the Piedmont region of North Carolina contained concentrations of vanadium and hexavalent chromi...
Diet quality of young people in US
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(JAMA Network) This observational study used national survey data from young people up to age 19 to estimate the overall diet quality of children and teens in the United States and to explore how diet quality has changed...
Changes in surface sugarlike molecules help cancer metastasize
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(University of California - Davis) Changes in a specific type of sugarlike molecule, or glycan, on the surface of cancer cells help them to spread into other tissues, according to researchers at UC Davis.
A molecule that directs neurons
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(Universit di Trento) A research team coordinated by the University of Trento studied a mass of brain cells, the habenula, linked to disorders like autism, schizophrenia and depression. The results of their work, publish...
CUNY New York City COVID-19 Survey week 2
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy) Nearly three in ten New York City residents (29%) report that either they or someone in their household has lost their job as a result of coronavirus over the las...
How personalization and machine learning can improve cancer outreach ROI
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(American Marketing Association) The effectiveness of outreach programs varies widely over time and across patients. A targeted program that matches each patient to the optimal outreach type improves the return on outrea...
Health Canada's COVID-19 response grants funding to three projects at the LDI
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(McGill University) Three researchers from the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital are among the recipients of funding as part of Canada's COVID-19 response, as announced by the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Mi...
How well do you know the back of your hand, really?
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(York University) Many of us are spending a lot of time looking at our hands lately and we think we know them pretty well. But research from York University's Centre for Vision Research shows the way our brains perceive ...
In COVID-19 response to Congress, AGS calls for medical supplies, telehealth
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(American Geriatrics Society) In letters sent yesterday to Congressional leaders, Vice President Pence, and White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Deborah Birx, MD, experts at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS...
Milner Foundation donates $3 million to three Israeli institutions
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) The Milner Foundation, founded by renowned tech investor and science philanthropist Yuri Milner and his wife Julia, has donated $3 million to Tel Aviv University and two other Is...
Modeling the human eye in a dish
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(Osaka University) Researchers from Osaka University developed and validated a novel PITX2-eGFP hiPSC reporter line to model the development of periocular mesenchymal cells. These findings could help understand how the e...
More men, more problems? Not necessarily, FSU study finds
EurekAlert! - 24 Mar 2020 06:00
(Florida State University) Men are more prone to competitive risk taking and violent behavior, so what happens when the number of men is greater than the number of women in a population? According to research by Florida ...