Medical News
Researcher explores disinfectant strength, contact time against viruses
EurekAlert! - 12 May 2020 06:00
(Penn State) Cleaning products, alcohol-based sanitizers and other common chemicals are all being used on surfaces to try to kill the virus that causes COVID-19, but knowing how much to use and how long to use it for is ...
New paper helps advance myopia management strategies
EurekAlert! - 12 May 2020 06:00
(McDougall Communications) 'Myopia Control 2020: Where are we and where are we heading?' has been published in Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, the peer-reviewed journal of The College of Optometrists, giving eye care ...
6-GHz scope combines eight analog, 16 digital channels
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 23:21
The first oscilloscope with eight analog channels at 6 GHz and 16 simultaneous digital channels, enables users to reduce test bench and workflow complexity to boost performance as well as provide accurate and repeatable ...
Diabetics Break Bones Easily -- New Research Is Figuring Out Why Their Bones Are So Fragile
Discover - 12 May 2020 21:15
Researchers are starting to understand why the bones of diabetic people are more prone to fractures.
The Ocean Liner SS United States: Part 4 - The cruise ship as successor
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 20:49
The ocean liner S.S. United States was super sleek, extremely fast, and highly engineered...yet soon became obsolete due to air travel; cruise ships are now the royalty of the seas. The previous sections of this article ...
ESCC-qualified power rectifiers, Schottky diodes are rad-hard for aerospace use
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 20:01
STMicroelectronics has extended its portfolio of radiation-hardened power devices qualified for space applications by introducing new ESCC (European Space Components Coordination) qualified 200V and 400V power rectifiers...
Bluetooth direction finding brings a new dimension to indoor asset tracking
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 20:00
By Mikko Savolainen, Senior Manager, Industrial and Commercial IoT Products, Silicon Labs Since opening the Global Positioning System (GPS) for civilian use in the 1980s, GPS technology has become a mainstream and de fac...
The Ocean Liner S.S. United States: Part 3 - Rapid obsolescence
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 17:41
The ocean liner S.S. United States was super sleek, extremely fast, and highly engineered...yet soon became obsolete due to air travel; cruise ships are now the royalty of the seas. In today's world, dominated by compani...
The Ocean Liner S.S. United States: Part 2 - A radical design
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 17:21
Part one looked at the engineering origins of the S.S. United States ocean liner. This part looks at how overall objectives drive the design and engineering of this ocean liner. Raw power, shape, materials define a new o...
Take a class in SDR and antenna design
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 16:43
The Wireless Research Center and The Ascendancy Group are hosting training classes for engineers, developers, and technical teams for RF design and antenna development. The Wireless Research Center (WRC) is an independen...
Design software accelerates development of SoCs for high-end cloud computing, AI apps
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 16:37
Synposys announced the industry’s broadest portfolio of high-quality IP on TSMC’s 5nm process technology for high-performance computing system-on chips (SoCs). The DesignWare IP portfolio on the TSMC process, encompa...
Simulation software lets designers predict signal integrity of electrical-optical/electrical data links
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 16:34
Keysight Technologies announced a new simulation workflow capability that seamlessly connects PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS) with VPI Design Suite from VPIphotonics, enabling designers to predict the signal integr...
Magnetic positioning system holds PCBs for instrument probing
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 16:33
Oscilloscopes with more than two channels present humans with a common problem: none of us have enough hands to hold more than two oscilloscope probes in place. This is especially an issue when using an 8-channel oscillo...
Bidirectional dc supplies provide regenerative dc loading
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 16:22
Chroma Systems Solutions, Inc. announces the first phase release of its new 62000D bidirectional DC power supplies. Bidirectional DC power supplies offer two-quadrant operation with positive current/positive voltage as w...
Online PCB tool allows for sharing, visualization, and mark-up of PCB designs
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 16:06
Altium, LLC, a leader in PCB design software, today announced the availability of Altium 365, the world's first cloud platform for PCB design and realization. The platform is poised to transform the electronics industry ...
Software-based inference accelerator speeds AI deployment on edge devices
Medical Design Technology - 12 May 2020 15:06
A software-based inference accelerator is said to drastically improve deep learning performance on any existing hardware. Today, deep learning deployments are very limited and are primarily optimized for the cloud; and, ...
Health inequities magnified during COVID-19 pandemic
EurekAlert! - 12 May 2020 06:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) The impact of COVID-19 on underserved and vulnerable populations, including persons of color, is addressed in a new roundtable discussion in Health Equity, a peer-reviewe...
Department of Defense awards $10M to Sanford Burnham Prebys for broad-spectrum antivirals
EurekAlert! - 12 May 2020 06:00
(Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute is pleased to announce that Sumit Chanda, Ph.D., has received a $10.2 million, four-year grant from the Department o...
Blood cells could serve as a 'thermometer' to detect breast cancer
EurekAlert! - 12 May 2020 06:00
(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) This study shows that patients develop alterations in a type of leukocyte at the initial stage of the disease. This discovery paves the way for the enhanced diagnos...
Could a drug combination prevent people with the eye disease uveitis lose their sight?
EurekAlert! - 12 May 2020 06:00
(University of Bristol) Two in 10,000 people are at risk of serious sight loss from a form of eye inflammation known as uveitis. A new clinical research study, led by the University of Bristol and University Hospitals Br...
New measure of broad psychopathology can predict future care requirement
EurekAlert! - 12 May 2020 06:00
(Karolinska Institutet) Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show that different measures of psychopathology can be combined into a single factor, 'p', which predicts the patient's prognosis and need of extra s...
NEOVII partners with Tel Aviv University to develop novel COVID-19 vaccine
EurekAlert! - 12 May 2020 06:00
(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) Ramot, Tel Aviv University's technology transfer company, and Neovii, a Swiss-based biopharmaceutical company and a member of Israel-based Neopharm Group, announced today that th...