Tag: university
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Start-Up Licenses University Patient Medical Software
The Minneapolis-based start-up Omicron Health Systems Inc. has licensed software written at University of Minnesota for clinical decision making and networking across health-care providers. Financial terms of the licensing agreement were not disclosed. Many electronic health care record systems were first designed for administrative purposes, such as billing and scheduling, and for use only by…
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New Methods Found to Better Monitor Glucose, Control Insulin
Researchers at the medical centers of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have found newer technologies to monitor blood sugar and replenish insulin for people with type 1 diabetes to work more effectively in many cases than traditional methods. The findings of the team led by Johns Hopkins medical…
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Smart Headlights Help Drivers See Better in the Rain
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh have devised a new type of car headlight that is better able to illuminate the road ahead in rain or snow. The team led by computer scientist Srinivasa Narasimhan (pictured left) says lab tests have demonstrated the feasiblity of the new headlight. The system works by…
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UCLA to Study Copper Surfaces to Reduce Hospital Infections
University of California in Los Angeles received a $2.5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for a clinical trial to test the use of copper to decrease the number of hospital-acquired infections. The research team will be led by the university’s Sustainable Technology and Policy Program and include members from UCLA’s…
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Grant Funds Feasibility Study of Photonic Ethernet Chips
A researcher at Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby has received a DKK 2.2 million ($US 370,000) grant to study the use of photonics to achieve high-speed Ethernet transfers on silicon chips. The grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research will fund the work of photonics staff researcher Hao Hu (pictured left) at Alcatel-Lucent-Bell…
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Robotic Legs Developed with Human Walking Motion
Engineers at University of Arizona in Tucson have developed a robotic pair of legs with a biologically accurate walking motion. Theresa Klein (pictured right) and Anthony Lewis at Arizona’s Robotics and Neural Systems Laboratory published the results of their work this week in the Journal of Neural Engineering. The researchers say the robotic legs have…
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Researcher Writes Anti-Data Theft Software for Smartphones
A computer scientist at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany (English translation by EurekAlert) has written an application to prevent the theft of data from Android smartphones. The app was written by computer science professor Michael Backes, pictured right, who chairs the university’s Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability, and who has also started a company…
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Alzheimer’s Biomarker Project to Gain Whole Genome Data
The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), a project for validating the use of biomarkers to diagnose the advance of Alzheimer’s disease, will obtain the complete genomic sequencing data of people with the disease. The Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) receives and stores the data for the project. ADNI…
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X-Ray Efficiency Boosted with Nanomaterials
Physicists in the U.S. and China have developed nanoscale materials using a design based on the eye of a moth to increase the efficiency of X-ray devices, which can lead to higher resolution images with lower doses of radiation. The research team led by Yasha Yi at City University of New York published its findings…
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Nanotech Coatings Found to Protect Ships from Barnacles
Chemists and molecular biologists in Germany and the Netherlands have tested coatings with vanadium pentoxide nanoparticles as an alternative to tin- and copper-based substances that prevent the build-up of marine organisms on ships’ hulls. The team led by Wolfgang Tremel of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany reported their findings online this week in the…