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Privacy-Enhanced Contact Tracing App in the Works

A mobile app for Covid-19 contact tracing, designed to protect the user’s personal privacy, is being developed by two university engineering labs.

A new challenge from XPrize seeks evidence-based models using artificial intelligence to help governments reopen their economies during the pandemic.

Researchers devised a technique that in lab mice carries immune system enzymes on red blood cells to stop the spread of cancer in the lungs.

Four companies from the computer technology and genomics industries are starting a coalition to advance DNA as a data storage medium.

A new enterprise spun-off from University of Connecticut is acquiring a technology for continuous manufacturing of nanoscale drug particles.

An engineering lab developed a chip device that uses gene editing and an electric field to detect viruses responsible for Covid-19 infections.

Biomedical engineers designed a thin flexible implantable patch that attaches to the heart, monitors its functions, and can perform therapeutics.

Data from smart watches and fitness trackers, when combined with symptom reports, can show that the wearers likely have Covid-19 infections.

The Food and Drug Administration plans to use organ-on-chip models to test mechanisms for preventing Covid-19 infections, and other processes.

Let’s explore some of these possibilities in turn to answer this question.