Tag: engineering
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Start-Up Company Creating Wearable Brain Scanner
A new enterprise, spun-off from a neuroscience lab in the U.K., is advancing a wearable scanner to detect and diagnose various brain disorders.
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Challenge Seeks Sustainable Chicken, Fish Alternatives
A new challenge competition from XPrize is looking for alternatives to chicken and fish that look and taste like the real thing, but are friendlier to the planet.
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Small Biz Grant Funds AI Repro Health Technology
A company developing health metrics with artificial intelligence received a grant to better understand polycystic ovary syndrome, an endocrine disorder affecting women.
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FDA Begins Qualifying Non-Animal Testing Options
The Food and Drug Administration began a pilot program for assessing alternative technologies to test drugs, biologics, and devices without animals.
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Start-Up Creating Digital Therapies for Alzheimer’s
A new enterprise is developing personalized digital therapeutics for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
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Inexpensive Chip Detects Covid-19, Other Pathogens
A small silicon lab-on-a-chip device costing about $0.35 to make is shown in lab tests to quickly detect SARS-CoV-2 viruses and infectious bacteria.
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Simpler Method Devised to Validate Covid-19 Tests
An engineering lab created simple and stable control probes to validate widely used diagnostic tests for SARS-Cov-2 viruses responsible for Covid-19.
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Therapist-Guided Home Stroke Rehab System in Works
A university lab is designing a system that allows for people with stroke to perform rehabilitation at home, while still guided remotely by a therapist.
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Lightweight AI Chip Designer Raises $2.8M in Seed Funds
A new company is designing computer chips and devices with artificial intelligence modeled on insect brains for autonomous vehicles and robotic systems.
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Biotech Manufacturing, Distribution Company Underway
A new enterprise providing manufacturing and supply chain services for biotechnology labs, including gene and RNA therapy developers, began operations.