Tag: physical sciences
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Cryptography Technique Boosts Genomic Privacy
A team of geneticists and computer scientists developed a technique of analyzing disease-causing mutations in a human genome without revealing other genetic data.
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Tracking Algorithms Devised to ID Human Traffickers
Computer scientists developed techniques that help identify the people placing sexual service advertisements by tracing the bitcoin payments for those ads.
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3-D Printing Process Developed for Living Tissue
Researchers in the U.K. devised 3-D printing techniques for human and animal cells to produce functioning tissue with multiple types of cells.
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Injectable Patch Designed to Repair Heart Tissue
An injectable soft mesh patch seeded with cardiac cells is shown to fix damaged heart tissue in tests with lab animals, as an alternative to open-heart surgery.
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Parkinson’s Protein Experiment in Space Station Cargo
An experiment to grow a crystallized form of protein associated with Parkinson’s disease is among the cargo that lifted off today from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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Smartphone Attachment Performs Medical Diagnostics
An engineering lab at University of Illinois created a device that uses a smartphone’s imaging and processing features to analyze human specimen samples for detecting disease.
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Creative Ideas Mined with Crowdsourcing, Neural Nets
A computer science team developed a process that combines crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to find analogies across disciplines to spark creative ideas.
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University Spins Off Educational Robot Start-Up
A start-up enterprise spun-off from Harvard University is developing a learning system with robotics to teach computer coding to students.
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Chip-Phone System Detects Disease Biomarkers
A biomedical engineering team created a chip device attached to a smartphone that detects indicators of disease in blood faster than today’s more expensive lab tests.
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System Designed to Monitor Bee Colony Health Buzz
A system being developed by a Canadian graduate student monitors the health of bee colonies by analyzing the sounds they make in the hive.