Category: New products
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Software Testing Technique Devised for Surgical Robots
Computer scientsts at Carnegie Mellon University and Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) adapted new techniques for uncovering software bugs to the demanding requirements of robotic surgery. Carnegie Mellon’s André Platzer and APL’s Yanni Kouskoulas and colleagues will describe their work later this week at the Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control conference in Philadelphia.…
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Gallium Arsenide Nanowires Boost Solar Cell Efficiency
University and industrial researchers in Switzerland and Denmark developed a new type of solar cell that in lab tests captures more light and generates more power than traditional silicon cells. The team from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, Neils Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen, and the Danish spin-off company SunFlake A/S…
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Fruit Juice Infusion Cuts Chocolate Fat Content in Half
Chemistry researchers at University of Warwick in the U.K. developed a process for keeping the desirable taste and texture of chocolate while sharply reducing its fat content. Warwick’s Stefan A. F. Bon described the process yesterday in a presentation at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans. Bon and colleagues study colloidal…
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FDA OKs Trial of Biopolymer to Treat Spinal Cord Injury
InVivo Therapeutics, a medical device developer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin a clinical trial to test the company’s bio-based polymer scaffolding as a treatment for acute traumatic spinal cord injury. The agency’s approval came in the form of an Investigational Device Exemption that allows…
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Enzyme Cocktail Generates High Volume Hydrogen from Biomass
Bioengineers at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, with colleagues from elsewhere in the U.S. and Mexico, developed a process to inexpensively extract large volumes of hydrogen fuel from any type of plant matter. The team led by biological systems engineering professor Y.H. Percival Zhang, published its findings online in a recent issue of the journal Angewandte…
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Anatomical Models 3-D Printed from Tomography Scans
Researchers at University of Notre Dame in Indiana developed a process for three-dimensional printing of anatomical models from computed tomography (CT) scans. The team from the lab of Matthew Leevy, a research professor at Notre Dame’s Integrated Imaging Facility, published its findings online last week in text and video form in the Journal of Visualized…
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Common Virus Fortifies Stem Cells, Improves Their Survival
Medical researchers at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and others devised a method for improving the survival of stem cells in the body, making them more effective therapeutic agents. The team led by Graca Almeida-Porada of Wake Forest’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine published their findings last week in the online journal PLoS One.…
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Cellulosic Plants Engineered for Improved Biofuel Production
Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Berkeley, California developed a process to re-engineer the cell walls of plants to make them better feedstocks for biofuels. The team led by bio-engineer Dominique Locque of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, one of the Joint BioEnergy Institute partners and a division of the U.S. Department of Energy, published…
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Cancer Analytics Prototype Based on Patient Records Unveiled
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Alexandria, Virginia demonstrated a prototype of its CancerLinq system based on information in patient records that aims to provide clinicians with better tools for decision-making. ASCO demonstrated the system yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The goal of CancerLinq is to provide cancer physicians and…
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Material Developed to Reflect Sun’s Heat, Cool Buildings
Engineers at Stanford University in California developed a new type of cooling material based on nanotechnology that radiates sunlight back into space. The team led by Stanford engineering professor Shanhui Fan published its findings earlier this month in the journal Nano Letters (paid subscription required). Fan, with doctoral candidates Eden Rephaeli and Aaswath Raman, engineered…