Category: New products
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Smartphone Isolates Apps into Business and Personal Sections
Computer scientists and engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) and Center for Advanced Security Research (CASED) in Darmstadt, Germany have developed smartphone software with separate business and personal areas. The team plans to discuss their research next week at it-sa (IT security) trade fair in Nuremberg. The work of the Fraunhofer…
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Genetic Technique Reduces Time to Bioengineer Pine Trees
Agricultural scientists at University of Florida in Gainesville have discovered a genetic process that can create new pine tree varieties in half the time it takes current methods. The development that involves a major industry in the southeast U.S. is described in the online edition of the journal New Phytologist (paid subscription required). The research…
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Stanford Using Sensor-Packed Mouthpiece to Study Concussions
Football and other athletes at Stanford University in California are wearing mouthpieces equipped with sensors to measure the force of head impacts during games and practices. The devices (pictured right) are manufactured by Seattle-based X2 Impact, which has donated the devices for the research. The mouthpieces will collect data for a study led by Dan…
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Univ., IBM Team Creates Enhanced Cloud Security Technique
Computer scientists from North Carolina State University in Raleigh and IBM have developed a technique to better protect sensitive information in cloud computing, without compromising overall system performance. The research team, led by NC State professor Peng Ning (pictured left), will present its findings later in October at the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and…
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Grant to Fund Research on Biodegradable Implant Materials
The engineering school at University of California in Riverside has received funding for research on alternative materials for medical implants that degrade naturally. National Science Foundation awarded the two-year grant for $175,000 to assistant professor of bioengineering Huinan Liu. Liu’s research will focus on developing biodegradable medical implant materials that would promote tissue regeneration and…
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Continuous Imaging Petri Dish Based on Smartphone Technology
A team of engineers and biologists at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have designed a petri dish that can continuously capture images of growing cell cultures. Called ePetri, the developers describe the device online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Petri dishes, used to grow cell cultures such…
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Spanish Institute Spin-Off to Develop Cancer Diagnostics
A new company spun off from the Institute of Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona, Spain (IRB Barcelona), will develop a diagnostic kit and treatments for breast cancer metastasis. Supragen is founded and commercializes research by Roger Gomis (pictured right), group leader of IRB Barcelona’s Growth Control and Cancer Metastasis lab. The lab investigates growth factors,…
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Nanoparticle Size Affects Hydrogen Release in Fuel Cells
Researchers at Delft University of Technology and VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands have shown that the size of a metal alloy nanoparticle influences the speed with which hydrogen gas is released when stored in a metal compound containing hydrogen. The team led by Delft materials scientist Bernard Dam published its findings in the October…
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Math Methods Devised to Design Chemical Catalysts
Research chemists at University of Utah in Salt Lake City have developed a process based on mathematics to design chemical catalysts, including those for making drugs. Professor Matt Sigman (pictured right) and doctoral student Kaid Harper report their findings in this week’s issue of the journal Science; paid subscription required. Catalysts are substances that encourage…
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Brain Circuit Model Helps Understand Parkinson’s Disease
Researchers from Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis have developed a mathematical model of the brain’s neural circuitry to better understand information disruptions in the brains of Parkinson’s disease patients. Their findings appear in the journal Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (paid subscription required). Mathematical sciences professor Leonid Rubchinsky (pictured left) examined the exchange…