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Paper Art Form Boosts Bandage, Wearables Adhesion
An engineering lab adapted the traditional Japanese art form of kirigami to create a surface for bandages and wearable devices on knees and elbows that bend a great deal and thus are difficult to stay on.
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Perfect Your Marketing Strategies Like A Pro
Marketing is where you reach out to your intended target audience and show them why they should all be doing business with you, whether that means buying your products or using the services that you are providing.
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Patent Awarded for Nanoparticle Drug, Cannabis Delivery
A delivery technology for therapeutic compounds in nanoscale natural oil particles received a U.S. patent, which the company owning the technology says can be applied to drugs, nutritional supplements, and cannabis-based treatments.
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Crowdsourced Project Building Whole Beta Cell Model
A new initiative is seeking participants from the worldwide research community to develop a multi-dimensional online model of the beta cell that produces insulin, found in the pancreas.
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Crispr Enhanced to Find, Edit Tiny Mutations
A bioengineering lab at Harvard University designed a refinement for genome editing to identify and remove small genetic mutations that can lead to diseases or organisms resistant to current drugs.
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Nerve Stimulation Device Being Tested for Arthritis
A device sending electrical pulses through a main nerve pathway is starting a clinical trial to test the device in people with rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease affecting joints and surrounding tissue.
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Infographic – Fastest Job Growth Seen in Health, Tech
We report on business developments in areas affected by science that includes many aspects of health care and information technology, and which according to a chart released this week by Statista account for the jobs with the fastest growth in the U.S. during the past 10 years.
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Plug The Holes In Your Business Security Right Now
Are there holes in your security? Is there more that you can do to protect your assets and indeed the interests of your customers?
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Analysis Reveals Ransomware Payment, Support Networks
In a two-year study, engineers and computer scientists trace the networks used by perpetrators to break in, encrypt, and hold for ransom the contents of personal or business computer systems, a growing form of cyber attack.
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High False-Positive Rate Found in Consumer Genetic Tests
Follow-up reviews of results from direct-to-consumer genetic tests show 40 percent of the actionable gene variations reported in the tests, including some indicating disease risk, were erroneous.