Tag: university
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Chip Set Developed for High Speed Wireless Data Transfers
Computer scientists at Nanyang Technological University and Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore have developed a microchip that can transmit large volumes of data at speeds of 2 gigabits per second, or 1,000 times faster than current Bluetooth technology. At that speed, a 2-hour, 8-gigabyte movie could be transferred in about half a minute,…
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Jet Injector Alternative to Hypodermic Needles Developed
Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an alternative to hypodermic needles to deliver medications, but one that gives more control than most commercial jet injector devices. A description of the technology appears online in the journal Medical Engineering & Physics (paid subscription required). The new device sends a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine…
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Consortium Developing Synthetic Biology Technology Platform
The Flowers Consortium, a group of five universities in the U.K., is developing a common platform technology for synthetic biology. Development of the platform — a basic set of standard technologies, from which specific applications can be designed — is being funded by a grant of some £5 million ($US 7.8 million) from the Engineering…
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Nanotech Fabrication Process Developed for Smaller Chips
Engineers at Stanford University and two Silicon Valley companies in California have devised a method of creating contact hole patterns for semiconductors that can reduce the size of logic and memory chips, while maintaining their fabrication accuracy. The findings of the team led by Stanford engineering professor H.-S. Philip Wong (pictured left) appear online in the…
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Universities to Examine CO2 Injections for North Sea Oil
Geoscientists at University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, with the British Geological Survey, will examine the use of carbon dioxide (CO2) to recover more oil from North Sea wells, while storing the CO2 underground. The program, called Centre for North Sea Enhanced Oil Recovery with CO2 (CENSEOR-CO2) aims to unlock three billion barrels…
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Superbug Genetic Code Cracked, Resistance Factor Identified
Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, with colleagues in the U.S. and U.K., have sequenced the genomes of the 12 available strains of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria resistant to the drug vancomycin, and determined the piece of the genome that makes the strains resistant. The team published its findings yesterday in the online…
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FDA Approves Assay for Rare Cell Disorders
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new test to help physicians diagnose a group of rare cell disorders. The test, or assay, was developed by Lawrence Schwartz (pictured right), a medical school professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and a researcher in the field of mast cells. Mast cells are found in…
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Latent Tuberculosis Test Devised for Single Chip
Bioengineers at University California-Davis have developed a microfluidics chip, also known as lab-on-a-chip, to test for latent tuberculosis. The researchers, Davis biomedical engineering professor Alexander Revzin and research specialist Ying Liu, expect the test device, for which a patent has been filed, to be less expensive, reusable, and provide results in real time. Tuberculosis, or…
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Physical Properties of Productive Stem Cells Identified
Biomedical engineers at Brown University in Providence have identified the physical properties of adult stem cells that indicate their most productive use in engineering new tissue. The findings of the team led by biomedical engineering professor Eric Darling (pictured left) appear online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; paid subscription required.…
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Students Design Pill Dispenser for Visually Impaired
Two undergraduate students of design at University of Cincinnati in Ohio have designed and built a prototype of a prescription-medicine pill bottle that better serves the needs of the blind and visually impaired. Alex Broerman and Ashley Ma will display their device, for which a provisional patent has been filed, at the DAAPworks 2012 show,…