Medical News
Lab-Grown Meat Climbs to New Heights on Scaffolds of Soy
Discover - 7 Apr 2020 22:45
Someday, such supports could allow meat in the lab to grow from tiny hamburger-nuggets into something more like steak.
Realistic GNSS simulation for automotive HIL testing
Medical Design Technology - 7 Apr 2020 18:28
SimHIL is an integrated hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing software API for Spirent GNSS simulators. SimHIL brings high fidelity GNSS signal simulation with low latency to automotive industry HIL testbeds. Spirent's SimH...
Selecting the right Bluetooth Low Energy SoC
Medical Design Technology - 7 Apr 2020 17:57
Tricks of the trade for optimizing the energy consumption of BLE chips affect memory size, clock speed, operating modes, and other factors determined during the initial design. Emmanuel Sambuis, Silicon Labs It can be ch...
Free eBook on implementation of API solutions, new ROI calculator
Medical Design Technology - 7 Apr 2020 17:23
Digi-Key Electronics announced that it now offers a free eBook on the benefits of implementing Application Programming Interface (API) solutions, as well as a new ROI calculator to see the return on investment that imple...
MCUs combine equipment control, networking functions on a single chip
Medical Design Technology - 7 Apr 2020 16:59
Renesas introduced the RX72N Group and the RX66N Group of MCUs for industrial automation - the latest additions to the 32-bit RX Family that combines equipment control and networking function on a single chip. Built arou...
SMD dc-dc converter handles 500 mA output currents
Medical Design Technology - 7 Apr 2020 16:44
CUI Inc. announced the addition of its first four contact, surface mount, non-isolated converter to its dc-dc converter line. The ultra-thin VXO78-500-M features a 500mA output current, no-load input current as low as 0....
Faster GigE vision interface cameras for high-res image capture
Medical Design Technology - 7 Apr 2020 16:40
Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company, has announced its new GenieTM Nano 5GigE M/C8100, M/C5400 and M/C4500, based on the ON Semiconductor 45M, 30M and 20M monochrome and color sensors. The new Genie Nano 5G s...
New option for certifying devices to LoRaWAN standards
Medical Design Technology - 7 Apr 2020 16:24
The LoRa Alliance, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN standard for the Internet of Things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today announced its Certification Affiliate option for cert...
Depressive disorders are 'under recognized and under treated' in people with HIV/AIDS
EurekAlert! - 7 Apr 2020 06:00
(Wolters Kluwer Health) People living with HIV/AIDS are at increased risk of depressive disorders. But all too often, these conditions go unrecognized or untreated, suggests a literature review in the May/June issue of H...
Test gear checks out OPEN Alliance TC9 test spec for 1000BASE-T1
Medical Design Technology - 7 Apr 2020 15:09
Rohde & Schwarz and connectivity and sensor component manufacturer TE Connectivity have successfully tested a communication link, utilizing Shielded Twisted Pair (STP) cables and TE's MATEnet data connector system, for c...
How 5G changes the V2X communications game
Medical Design Technology - 7 Apr 2020 08:30
The concept of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications has been around for 20 years. So far, V2X has achieved limited uptake for several reasons. That's about the change with the widespread deployment of 5G technology...
Hangover drug shows wider benefits in USC research
EurekAlert! - 7 Apr 2020 06:00
(University of Southern California) The hangover remedy DHM may have broader applications for substance abuse treatment and liver disease.
Genes sow seeds of neuropsychiatric diseases before birth, in early childhood
EurekAlert! - 7 Apr 2020 06:00
(Yale University) From early prenatal development through childhood, the prefrontal cortex of the human brain undergoes an avalanche of developmental activity. In some cases, it also contains seeds of neuropsychiatric il...
Engineered virus might be able to block coronavirus infections, mouse study shows
EurekAlert! - 7 Apr 2020 06:00
(American Society for Microbiology) No vaccines exist that protect people against infections by coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, or the ones that cause SARS and MERS. As COVID-19 continues to w...
New practices improved stroke care
EurekAlert! - 7 Apr 2020 06:00
(Karolinska Institutet) A new method of evaluating and prioritising treatment for patients with suspected acute stroke, which has been used by the Stockholm health authority since 2017, has led to faster health intervent...
Babies retain even detailed events during a nap
EurekAlert! - 7 Apr 2020 06:00
(Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) While sleeping the brain goes through previously experienced things, consolidates new memory contents and summarizes similar experiences into more general kno...
54.8% of COVID-19 cases imported to Brazil by March 5 came from Italy
EurekAlert! - 7 Apr 2020 06:00
(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) In contrast with China and other countries where the disease spread slowly, in Brazil more than 300 people started the epidemic. Most were passengers flying in from...
McGill University receives Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) Award
EurekAlert! - 7 Apr 2020 06:00
(McGill University) The Canadian Institutes of Health Research's (CIHR) Institute of Indigenous Peoples' Health has awarded a CAD $3.5 million operating grant to Dr. Treena Wasontí:io Delormier of McGill University's Sc...
Mainz University to cooperate closely with Masaryk University on RNA research
EurekAlert! - 7 Apr 2020 06:00
(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) Twinning program of the European Union will fund the training of young researchers and scientists from the Czech Republic at Mainz University.
Common protein in skin can 'turn on' allergic itch
EurekAlert! - 7 Apr 2020 06:00
(North Carolina State University) A commonly expressed protein in skin -- periostin -- can directly activate itch-associated neurons in the skin, according to new research. Blocking periostin receptors on these neurons r...
Pancreatic cancer blocked by disrupting cellular pH balance
EurekAlert! - 7 Apr 2020 06:00
(Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have found a new way to kill pancreatic cancer cells by disrupting their pH equilibrium. The study, published in Cancer Discovery,...
Plazi and Pensoft join forces to let biodiversity knowledge of coronaviruses hosts out
EurekAlert! - 7 Apr 2020 06:00
(Pensoft Publishers) To bridge the huge knowledge gaps of how and which animal species successfully transmit life-threatening viruses to humans, thereby causing pandemics like the currently ravaging COVID-19 (Coronavirus...