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Brain-on-a-Chip
Brain-on-a-Chip
About half of all traumatic brain injuries involve damage to neural axons, and result in a range of [MORE]
Heart-Rate Sensors Built into Car Seats
Heart Rate Sensing Car Seat
To wearable, implantable and ingestible sensors, add another, seatable sensors. Researchers at the Nottingham Trent University [MORE]
Sleep and Disease Indications
Sleep Disturbances
This report, about studies done at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, suggests that sleep disturbance is an early [MORE]
Magneto-Acoustic Imaging
Magneto-Acoustic Technology
MRI imaging is expensive and carries some risk of tissue damage from the radiation it relies upon. Engineers at [MORE]
How a Telmed Consult Works
Telemedicine Consultation
Will people be able to get an effective medical consultation for, say, a sinus infection, using only their smartphone? [MORE]
Ethical Robots?
Robot Gives a Greeting – Tuffs University
Maybe it’s not that hard. “Moral competence in social robots” raises two dilemmas: what [MORE]
Biobanking an Economic Future
Cannon Towel Company
Kannapolis, NC saw itself as “the largest towel manufacturer in the world” until the Cannon Towel Company closed [MORE]
DNA Chips that Plug into Smartphones?
Microarray Solutions
Illumina’s Chief Technology Officer says there may be no need for primary care physicians in the future, which may [MORE]
Big Data’s Big Mistakes
Professor Isaac Kohane
“I am concerned that it’s all too easy to see the data and say, ‘I’ve been doing big-data [MORE]
Urine Test for Preterm Births
Scan of Baby in Womb
While it’s unclear why the rate of premature births has risen over the past 20 years [MORE]
Injectable Foam for Hemorrhage
Prototype Injectable Foam for Hemorrahge
Neither tourniquets nor gauze pads are very effective in stopping bleeding from deep wounds in [MORE]
3-D Printed Bio-Bots
Biobots Use Skeletal Muscle
It might be hard to imagine a personal robot to clean your house, but it’s not farfetched [MORE]
3-D Printed Spinal Fusion Cage
3-D Printed Spine Cage
Damaged discs in the spine can cause vertebrae to fuse with resulting pain and dysfunction. Medicrea (Paris, [MORE]
S. Korea’s 3-D Printing Strategy
South Korean 3-D printer Plan
The South Korean government sees 3-D printing as an emerging industrial driver and consequently [MORE]