Tag: physical sciences
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Big Data Quickly Identify Foodborne Illness Sources
3 July 2014. Data analysts and public health experts at the IBM research center in San Jose, California developed techniques for faster identification of sources of foodborne diseases from available public health and retail sales data. The team led by IBM’s James Kaufman, the company’s public health research manager, published its findings today online in…
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Solar Process Converts CO2 to Source of Power, Chemicals
2 July 2014. Chemists from Princeton University and spin-off company Liquid Light Inc. in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey created a process to use sunlight for converting carbon dioxide into formic acid, a source for electric power and industrial chemicals. Princeton chemistry professor Andrew Bocarsly, also a founder of Liquid Light, and colleagues published their findings…
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Univ at Buffalo Starting Advanced Materials Research Center
1 July 2014. University at Buffalo in New York is establishing a new materials research department that aims to accelerate the process of bringing advanced materials to market. Buffalo’s Materials Design and Innovation department is a joint project of the university’s engineering and Arts and Science schools, and funded in part by donation of $1.5…
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Big Data Analytics ID People Risking Metabolic Syndrome
27 June 2014. Researchers from the insurance provider Aetna Inc. and GNS Healthcare, a data analytics company in the health care industry, developed statistical models that can identify population groups and individuals at risk for metabolic syndrome, a collection of conditions pointing to future heart disorders and diabetes. The team from Aetna’s Innovation Labs in…
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FDA Approves Motorized Exoskeleton for Spinal Cord Injury
27 June 2014. The Food and Drug Administration yesterday cleared for sale in the U.S. a motorized exoskeleton system for people with lower-body paralysis from spinal cord injury. The device, called ReWalk, is made by Argo Medical Technologies in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and according to FDA, the first system of its kind approved to help people…
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Epoxy/Carbon Ink 3-D Printed into Lightweight Cell Material
26 June 2014. Engineers at Harvard University developed an ink made of epoxy resins and carbon fibers, which when arrayed into a cellular pattern with three-dimensional printing, can produce a strong lightweight composite with the properties of balsa wood. Materials scientist and engineering professor Jennifer Lewis and postdoctoral researcher Brett Compton, now at Oak Ridge…
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Paralyzed Man Moves Hand with Neuro-Signal Implant System
24 June 2014. Engineers at Battelle Memorial Institute and physicians at Ohio State University medical center in Columbus demonstrated a device that enables people with a spinal cord injury to direct movement of limbs with their thoughts. The research team’s first patient is Ian Burkhart, a 23 year-old man from Dublin, Ohio taking part in…
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Ultrasound-Triggered Hydrogel Shown to Deliver Cancer Drug
24 June 2014. Bioengineers at Harvard University developed a technique with hydrogel and ultrasound that makes it possible to trigger short-term on-demand boosts of chemotherapy drugs. The team led by David Mooney of Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering published its findings online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (paid…
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Student Project Aims to Land Time Capsule on Mars
23 June 2014. Students from four U.S. universities — with help from research labs, not-for-profit organizations, and companies — are building a space vehicle to propel and land a time capsule of digital files from earth on the surface of Mars. The Time Capsule to Mars project also plans to raise $25 million through crowdfunding…
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Challenge Seeks Development Partner for Nanotech Biosensor
20 June 2014. A new challenge on InnoCentive calls for a medical technology company or institute to develop a new type of nanoscale biosensor for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The challenge has no immediate financial award, but winners of the competition will earn the right to negotiate a compensated collaboration contract with the Cleveland Clinic,…