Medical News
PCB builder tool streamlines ordering process
Medical Design Technology - 2 Jun 2020 23:43
Digi-Key Electronics announced that it now offers a printed circuit board (PCB) builder tool to streamline customers' ordering experience of PCBs and to more broadly support their rapid prototyping needs. The PCB Builder...
Newark adds new range of innovative power solutions from MPS
Medical Design Technology - 2 Jun 2020 23:40
Newark has enhanced its semiconductor portfolio with a new range of compact, highly energy-efficient power, motion control, and sensor solutions by Monolithic Power Systems (MPS). Since the company was established in 199...
What Science Says About the Health Benefits of Plant-Based Diets
Discover - 2 Jun 2020 22:38
What is considered a plant-based diet, and what makes it so healthy?
Capacitors can be mounted close to fast switching semiconductors in high power density applications
Medical Design Technology - 2 Jun 2020 18:54
KEMET Corporation has extended its popular KC-LINK range using KONNEKT high-density packaging technology to meet the growing demand for fast-switching wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors, EV/HEV, LLC resonant converters, a...
Multi-function, mesh-sensor unit simplify IoT position tracking and sensor data collection
Medical Design Technology - 2 Jun 2020 18:46
Fujitsu Component America, Inc. has released a series of battery-powered Wirepas Mesh technology mesh units and mesh-sensor units. The devices simplify construction of large-scale decentralized networks to allow scalable...
5G Over-the-Air Testing: An update
Medical Design Technology - 2 Jun 2020 18:15
MIMO differs from LTE to 5G, plus 5G adds mmWave frequencies and beam steering. Both force changes in emulating channels. The post 5G Over-the-Air Testing: An update appeared first on Electrical Engineering News and Prod...
Wireless power coils double as NFC antennas
Medical Design Technology - 2 Jun 2020 17:34
Würth Elektronik expands its portfolio of wireless power coils. WE-WPCC WPT/NFC combines wireless power transmission with the Near Field Communication (NCF) standard thus enabling, for example, the combination of a char...
Collaboration focuses on development tools for RISC-V-based MCUs
Medical Design Technology - 2 Jun 2020 17:11
IAR Systems and GigaDevice Semiconductor Inc. announce that they have formed a partnership in order to deliver powerful development tools for GigaDevice's RISC-V based microcontrollers (MCUs). IAR Systems provides the C/...
NFC ICs highlight security, integrated functions
Medical Design Technology - 2 Jun 2020 17:05
NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced its new MIFARE DESFire EV3 IC that ushers in next-generation performance, advanced security, and seamless integration of mobile services for a new era of security and connectivity in sma...
Expression of certain genes may affect vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(McLean Hospital) A new study suggest that whether certain genes are expressed may play a role in susceptibility to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
COVID-19 news from Annals of Internal Medicine
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(American College of Physicians) ACP Leaders suggest using 'New Vision' to guide US health care reform during and after COVID-19 pandemic.
Extracellular vesicles play an important role in the pathology of malaria vivax
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)) Extracellular vesicles (EVs) play a role in the pathogenesis of malaria vivax, according to a study led by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (IS...
Estee Lauder announces scientific collaboration with Dr. Paolo Sassone-Corsi
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(The Estee Lauder Companies R&D) To further advance over a decade of circadian rhythm research in skin, the Estee Lauder brand announces a scientific collaboration with Dr. Paolo Sassone-Corsi, Director of the Center for...
COVID-19 drug development could benefit from approach used against flu
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(University of Texas at Austin) A new study from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has found that some antivirals are useful for more than helping sick people get better -- they also can prevent thousands ...
An optimal decision-making strategy emerges from non-stop learning
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown) Unexpected results bring into question which decision-making strategies should be considered as optimal.
How a fat cell's immune response makes obesity worse
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) Cincinnati Children's obesity science expert Senad Divanovic, PhD, reports in Nature Communications that adipocytes themselves can unlock a dormant inflammatory potential d...
Cells that make our insides slick also calm our spleens
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) It's called icing sugar spleen, when the usually purplish organ looks like it has been dipped in unhealthy white icing, and the surface is bumpy and thick.
Genetic study reveals similarities and differences of COVID-19 and SARS viruses
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(University of Tokyo) Researchers have identified specific portions of the genetic codes of the COVID-19 and SARS viruses that may promote the viruses' lifecycles. The new technique is researchers' first tool for determi...
Immune cells multiply and diversify in mouse lungs at birth
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(eLife ) An explosion in the number and types of immune cells in the lungs of newborn mice likely helps them adapt to breathing and protects them from infection, says a new study published today in eLife.
Impact of COVID-19 infection in blood cancer patients
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(Queen Mary University of London) One of the first studies to investigate the outcome of COVID-19 infection in patients with blood cancer has been conducted by clinical researchers from Queen Mary University of London an...
Integrating behavioral health services into medical practices faces barriers
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(RAND Corporation) Many people do not receive treatment for their mental health problems because of a shortage of providers and lack of access to mental health services, but one solution is to integrate mental health tre...
Mindfulness improves decision-making, attention in children with autism
EurekAlert! - 2 Jun 2020 06:00
(Rutgers University) School-based mindfulness programs can improve decision-making skills and teach children with autism to focus attention and react less impulsively through breathing exercises that will allow them to r...