Tag: engineering
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Phone Video Algorithm Screens for Stroke
A medical informatics team designed a computer model from patient videos to help emergency room physicians quickly diagnose stroke.
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Carb-X Funding Nanoscale Sponge to Treat Sepsis
A company developing tiny particles made of cellular material to soak-up toxins in the body received a $4 million award to advance its sepsis treatment.
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Software Designed to Model, Visualize Brain Circuits
An academic-industry team designed a web-based software tool to ease the computer modeling, simulation, and visualization of the brain’s nerve cell circuits.
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Individual Cells Explored with Virtual Reality
A new software package uses virtual reality to allow biologists and medical researchers to visualize and explore inside individual cells in three dimensions.
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Start-Up Gains Access to Vaccine Nasal Spray Technology
A company developing techniques to deliver vaccines like Covid-19 with a nasal spray received an opportunity to license the process from University of Houston.
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New Funds Advance Hand-Wrist Neural Rehab Device
Developers of a system to help people with spinal cord injuries regain use of their hands and wrists, are configuring the device for home use.
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How Will 5G Affect Business?
Here is a brief guide to 5G and what to expect from this new generation of mobile network.
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DoD Funding Mobile Vaccine/Therapy Manufacturing Lab
The U.S. Defense Department’s research agency is funding a prototype mobile lab to produce RNA-based vaccines and therapies in the field on demand.
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Stimulation Device Shown to Reduce Tinnitus Symptoms
Results from a clinical trial show a device that sends audio and electrical signals to the ears and tongue reduces tinnitus symptoms for as long as one year.
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New Company IDs Drugs Targeting Cancer Cell Networks
A start-up company is using artificial intelligence to discover drugs that address the tumor stroma, a cellular network supporting cancerous tumors.