Tag: university
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Ultrasound System Developed for Submarine Data, Power
An engineering doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York has developed a new system using ultrasound to transmit large quantities of data and power wirelessly through thick metal walls, like the hulls of ships and submarines. The system built and demonstrated by Tristan Lawry (pictured right) is one of three finalists for…
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Profs Develop, Patent Device to Encourage Senior Exercise
Nursing and engineering faculty at University of Rhode Island in Kingston developed a device to send friendly reminders to older people that they need to get more exercise. In November, the university patented this system that analyzes activity levels of senior citizens and generates audio reminder messages in familiar voices. The original idea for the…
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New Balloon Catheter Reduces Cardiac Surgery Invasiveness
A team of materials scientists, engineers, and physicians has successfully integrated stretchable electronics technology with standard balloon catheters now used inside the heart. The researchers from several universities and a company commercializing the technology, published their findings in the current online issue of the journal Nature Materials (paid subscription required). Catheters are long, flexible tubes…
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Universities License Regenerative Membrane Technology
The technology transfer offices at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah University Medical Center in Israel, say they have licensed technology for regenerative membrane implants developed at their institutions. RegeneCure, the licensee — also in Jerusalem — will further develop and commercialize the technology for bone tissue engineering in trauma, spine, and reconstructive cranial and…
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Hot Booze Found to Increase Iron Superconductivity
Scientists from the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan and University of Tsukuba found that soaking pellets of an iron-based compound in heated alcoholic beverages for 24 hours increases the pellets’ superconducting ability. Their findings appear in the current issue of the journal Superconductor Science and Technology (free registration required). Creating a faster…
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Grant Awarded for Device to Help Stroke Victims Speak
An engineering professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg is developing an electronic device to help bring back the voice of stroke patients and others who have suffered paralysis of the vocal folds, through electrical stimulation. National Science Foundation awarded Alexander Leonessa (right) awarded a $480,000 Faculty Early Career Development award for his research. Leonessa’s work…
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Online Cancer Genomics Tool for Clinicians Unveiled
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) in Nashville, Tennessee has launched a cancer decision-support tool to help physicians track the latest developments in personalized cancer medicine and find clinical research trials for their patients. The online service called My Cancer Genome (MyCancerGenome.org) is part of VICC’s Personalized Cancer Medicine Initiative, started last year. The Web-accessible database is…
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Improved Methods Match Suspect Sketches to Mugshots
A computer science/engineering team at Michigan State University in East Lansing has developed a set of algorithms and created software that automatically match hand-drawn facial sketches to mug shots stored in law enforcement databases. Their findings appear in the March 2011 issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (paid subscription…
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Trial Tests New Radiation Treatment for Head, Neck Cancer
Clinical trials of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) at Helsinki University Central Hospital in Finland indicate the therapy has potential to treat patients with advanced head and neck cancer who have not responded to previous treatments. The results of the trial were published online in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics (paid subscription…
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iPhone App to Test Brain Training in Older Adults
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, in Northern Ireland, U.K. are studying the value of brain training exercises for older adults with a prototype iPhone application to collect data and test the concept on live users. The Brain Jog app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch is available as a free download from Apple’s iTunes…