Tag: university
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Anti-Smoking Drug Raises Risk of Heart Problems
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Wake Forest University, and University of East Anglia in the U.K. found healthy tobacco users that take a leading smoking cessation drug face a notably greater chance of hospitalization from heart problems, compared to those taking a placebo. The findings appear in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association…
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Foods with Baked Milk Can Build Children’s Dairy Tolerance
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York have found that adding increasing amounts of foods with baked milk into the diets of children who have milk allergies helped most of them outgrow their allergies. The findings appear in the 23 May issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The team…
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University Spin-Off to Develop Semiconductor Power Devices
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd, a company created by University of Warwick in Coventry, U.K., will develop silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor power switches that promise to be smaller and more efficient than devices built on traditional silicon. The company was founded by Warwick engineering faculty Phil Mawby and Peter Ward, who designed the company’s development technology in…
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Software Helps Reduce Battery Drain on Mobile WiFi Devices
A graduate student at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina has developed software that coordinates mobile devices competing for WiFi signals and extends the battery lives of those devices. Computer scientist Justin Manweiler (pictured right) presented details about the software at the Association for Computing Machinery’s conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, held this…
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Grant Funds Research on Developing Corn for Warmer Climate
A $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund Iowa State University researchers in Ames developing a corn variety that maintains the region’s high yields as temperatures rise. Professor Alan Myers and Tracie Hennen-Bierwagen, associate scientist, will join with colleagues from University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of Florida, Gainesville on…
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Computerized Outpatient Prescriptions Still Have Errors
Researchers from three Boston, Massachusetts medical centers, Harvard Medical School, and CVS Pharmacies analyzed records from automated prescription systems and found error rates similar to prescriptions written manually. The team’s findings appear online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (paid subscription required). The panel of clinicians reviewed 3,850 prescription records from a…
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Survey: Public Wants Informed Consent for Biobanks
A survey and focus groups on public attitudes toward informed consent for participation in collections of tissue samples, show a preference for giving consent in advance, balanced with convenience for the contributors. The findings from researchers at the University of Iowa College of Medicine appear in the online issue of the journal Genetics in Medicine…
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Integrated Robotic Tactile Skin Sensitivity Developed
Researchers at Technical University Munich (Technische Universität München, TUM) have built small hexagonal plates, which when joined together, provide a tactile-sensitive skin for autonomous robots. A paper describing these developments appears in the June issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Robotics (paid subscription required). The TUM scientists have developed an artificial skin for robots…
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Ink-Jet Printing Method Tested to Make Solar Cells
Engineers at Oregon State University in Corvallis have devised a method of producing a type of solar cell using ink-jet technology. The process, for which a patent has been applied, is described in an upcoming issue of the journal Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (paid subscription required). The OSU team led by engineering professor…
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Rollerball Pen Enables Hand-Drawn Electrical Circuits
Materials scientists and engineers at University of Illinois in Champaign have developed a rollerball pen (pictured left) capable of writing electrical circuits and interconnects on paper, wood, and other surfaces. The team of faculty, postdoc, and students published their findings in the online issue of the journal Advanced Materials (paid subscription required). While it looks…