POSTS TAGGED AS DARPA

Spleen-on-a-Chip

Spleen-on-a-Chip
Following Tagline’s stories (March 12, and May 7) about the Wyss Institute’s “organs-on-a-chip,” here’s a piece about another organ– [MORE]

Spleen-on-a-Chip

Spleen-on-a-Chip
Following Tagline’s stories (March 12, and May 7) about the Wyss Institute’s “organs-on-a-chip,” here’s a piece about another organ– [MORE]

Internal Polymer Foam to Staunch Hemorrhaging

DARPA Foam
Imagine a spray can of foam insulation that goes into a cavity and expands to fill the space.  [MORE]

Microfluidics Chip Mimics Ten Human Organ Systems

Microfluidics
With DARPA funding, MIT bioengineers (in collaboration with others) are creating a microfluidics platform that mimics specific functions of human [MORE]

Contact Lenses Offering Wider Field of View

Innovega's Contact Lens
Ben Franklin figured out the advantage of bifocals in 1784, but it has taken more than two [MORE]

For Toxicity Testing, a Human-Body-on-a-Chip

Over the next five years, the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the [MORE]

Haptic Device for Movement Assist

At last month’s Human Computer Interaction Conference in Orlando, FL, research psychologist Dr. Linda R. Elliott reported on a [MORE]

Artificial Touch

Fiberoptic Neurophotonics
Under a $5.6m DARPA grant, researchers at Southern Methodist University’s Neurophotonics Research Center are developing fiber optic threads [MORE]

Traumatic Brain Injury Reseach

Don DuRousseau, CEO and Senior Scientist at Human Bionics LLC,   discusses issues of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and the [MORE]

DARPA’s Teleportation Work

This isn’t Star Trek’s “transporter,” in which special effects specialists used Alka Seltzer tablets in hot water to imagine teleportation [MORE]

DARPA’s “Silent Talk” Telepathy

We say words, but our brains “see” pictures. Those mental images can be detected by electrical sensors and computed [MORE]

Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment and Cognitive Rehabilitation

Learning Objectives: Learn about the 21st Century tools that are currently available to diagnose brain injury status and treat cognitive [MORE]

Blast Meter Measures Impact

Helmet Measures Blast Impact
Explosions create shock waves that can cause brain injury, which might go undiagnosed for a long time.  [MORE]