Tag: physical sciences
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Sensor Quickly Detects Bacteria in Wounds
5 February 2016. An engineering and medical research team developed a miniaturized sensor that detects the presence of dangerous bacteria in wounds in less than a minute. Researchers led by Victoria Shanmugam of George Washington University’s medical school and engineering professor Edgar Goluch at Northeastern University published their findings in a recent (27 January) issue…
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Chip Designed for Efficient, Mobile Neural Networks
4 February 2016. An engineering lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed a new processing chip that could allow running of neural networks on mobile devices. A team led by electrical engineering and computer science professor Vivienne Sze described and demonstrated the new chip on 2 February at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in…
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Purdue Licenses Food Pathogen Fingerprint Technology
26 January 2016. A lab equipment company is licensing a laser-based technology developed at Purdue University that quickly identifies foodborne pathogens. Financial aspects of the agreement between Purdue, in West Lafayette, Indiana and Andreas Hettich GmbH in Tuttlingen, Germany were not disclosed. Hettich is acquiring the rights to Bacteria Rapid Detection using Optical Scattering Technology,…
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Material Hides Beta Cell Transplants From Immune Reaction
26 January 2016. Engineering and biochemical researchers developed a material that in lab animals holds and protects transplanted pancreatic beta cells against an immune reaction, a key advance in treatments for individuals with type 1 diabetes. Teams from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other institutions published their findings about the material in the 25 January…
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Bacterial Bonding Technique Devised to Simplify Vaccines
20 January 2016. Researchers at Oxford University developed and tested engineered proteins from bacteria that in lab tests make vaccine design simpler and more reliable. The team from the lab of biochemistry professor Mark Howarth published its proof-of-concept results in the 19 January issue of Scientific Reports. Howarth — with immunologists from Oxford’s Jenner Institute…
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Organovo, UC-San Diego Partner on 3-D Liver Tissue
15 January 2016. Organovo Holdings and University of California in San Diego are collaborating on isolating and better understanding human liver cells for the production of 3-D printed liver tissue. Financial and intellectual property aspects of the agreement were not disclosed. Organovo designs and produces human tissue for research and transplant, using its own bio-printing…
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Students Design Pad to Collect Urinary Infection Samples
14 January 2016. A team at Hebrew University in Jerusalem designed a microfiber pad to improve collection of urine samples from people with urinary tract infections. Graduate students from a number of disciplines developed the pad under in the Israeli university’s Biodesign medical innovation program. Infections can occur anywhere in the urinary tract, but happen…
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Yahoo Releases User Interaction Data for Machine Learning
14 January 2016. The online company Yahoo is releasing an extensive data set of individual user interactions with some of its popular services to the academic community as raw material for studies of machine learning. The de-identified data sets will be part of Yahoo’s Webscope reference library offered to academic researchers. The data sets cover…
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Smart Pills Detect, Measure Gases in Gut
13 January 2016. A team at RMIT University in Australia developed a device, swallowed like a pill, that measures gas concentrations in the intestine and sends its data to an outside receiver. Proof-of-concept results from tests with pigs appear in the January 2016 issue of the journal Gastroenterology. Researchers led by RMIT engineering professor Kourosh…
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Electronic Stimulation Shown to Reduce Arthritic Knee Pain
5 January 2015. Results from a clinical trial show a device emitting electronic pulses reduced more pain in the knees of people with osteoarthritis, compared to a placebo. Findings from the study, conducted by a team from University of Messina in Italy, appear in the January 2016 issue of the journal Rheumatology. The trial tested…