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  • Cord Blood Bank Service Adds Cases to Research Database

    ViaCord, a cord-blood banking service in Waltham, Massachusetts, is collaborating with the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research in Milwaukee to add studies of ViaCord’s stem cell transplants to the Center’s research database. Financial aspects of the agreement were not disclosed. ViaCord, a division of manufacturer Perkin-Elmer, offers families expecting children with the…

  • Technique Enhances MRI Images for Cartilage, Brain Tissue

    Radiologists and chemists at New York University devised a method to improve magnetic resonance images (MRIs) usually obscured by large molecular masses, when using a common method for chemically saturating certain molecules. The team led by NYU radiologist Ravinder Regatte and chemist Alexej Jerschow reported their findings last week in the online journal Scientific Reports.…

  • Emergency Care Costs Likely Higher than Current Estimates

    An analysis of emergency care costs in the U.S. suggests the actual price tag for visiting hospital emergency rooms may be more than earlier thought. A study by economist turned emergency room physician Michael Lee at Brown University, with colleagues from Brown and Harvard Medical School, appears online in Friday’s issue of the journal Annals…

  • Shape-Changing Capability Developed for Mobile Devices

    Computer scientists at University of Bristol in the U.K. developed the ability for mobile devices made with flexible materials to change their shape to better fit their uses at the moment. The team from Bristol’s Interaction and Graphics lab is scheduled today to present a paper on what they call Morphees at the ACM SIGCHI…

  • System Creates Ad Hoc Touch-Based Interfaces on Surfaces

    Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh developed a system that can project images to control computer devices on everyday surfaces almost at will. The team of doctoral candidates Robert Xiao and Chris Harrison, with professor Scott Hudson, will discuss their WorldKit system next week at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in…

  • Faster, Automated Test Developed for Sepsis-Causing Fungus

    A test for Candida, a fungal infection that can lead to sepsis, identified the pathogen in whole blood samples in a few hours, rather than the two to five days needed by current tests. Researchers from T2 Biosystems, a biotechnology company in Lexington, Massachusetts, with colleagues from Brown University and Harvard University medical schools published…

  • New Type Battery Designed for Solar, Wind Grid Storage

    Engineers at Stanford University and Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory developed a lower-cost design for long term storage of wind and solar energy on the power grid. The team led by Yi Cui, a materials science and engineering professor at Stanford and part of a joint materials and energy science institute at SLAC, published its…

  • Surgical Agents Developed for Biopsies in Confined Spaces

    Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore created and tested microscopic devices powered by body heat that collect tissue samples from patients for biopsies. A team led by Johns Hopkins physician Florin Selaru and engineer David Gracias published its findings in the April issue of the journal Gastroenterology, as well as the 25 January issue…

  • Oregon Health, Intel Partner on Genome Analysis Computing

    Oregon Health and Science University in Portland and Intel Corporation are developing new computing technologies to increase the speed and precision of analyzing a patient’s genome, while reducing their time and cost. Financial aspects of the multi-year collaboration were not disclosed. The agreement calls for engineers and scientists from Oregon Health and Intel to develop…

  • Video Game Adapted, Tested as Lazy Eye Treatment in Adults

    Vision researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, with colleagues from China and New Zealand, adapted the video game Tetris in a treatment for adults with amblyopia, a condition commonly known as lazy eye. Ophthalmology professor Robert Hess and colleagues reported their findings in today’s issue of the journal Current Biology (paid subscription required). Amblyopia…