Tag: mathematics
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Vital Signs Electronic Tag Designed to Aid First Responders
A simple electronic monitoring device that adheres to the chest aims to provide basic vital signs data to first responders and emergency medical staff in mass casualty situations.
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Radio Frequency Tags, A.I. Designed to Detect Unsafe Food
A computer engineering team designed a simple, inexpensive system for detecting food quality with radio-frequency tags applied to consumer products and machine learning algorithms.
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$200M Gift Supporting Translational Research, Start-Up Incubator
Harvard Medical School is the recipient of a gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation to develop innovative treatments, apply advanced digital technologies, and accelerate biotech and life science start-up companies.
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Munich Airport, MIT Lab Partner on Smart City
An engineering lab at MIT and the R&D hub at Munich, Germany’s international airport are studying the use of digital technologies to improve urban life, using the hub’s campus as a laboratory.
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Multiple Sensors, A.I. Power Digital Stethoscope
Researchers in Rochester, New York are developing a system combining functions of a conventional stethoscope and an electrocardiogram or ECG to better check on implanted heart pumps.
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NVIDIA, Scripps Partner on Medical Deep Learning Applications
A high-performance computer chip maker and life science research center are collaborating on extending deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence, into more areas of medical science and practice.
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Robotic Exoskeleton Systems Studied for Industrial Workforce
Control systems for whole-body robotic devices worn by industrial workers to help them perform their jobs are being designed and assessed by an academic-industry engineering team.
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Infectious Disease Sequencing Service, Training Launched
A cloud-based open-source genomic sequencing program is underway to identify the source and nature of infectious diseases anywhere in the world.
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Small Business Grant Aims to Cut Animals in Toxicity Testing
A grant from National Institute of Health supports work by a start-up enterprise in Indiana to better estimate doses needed to test drugs for toxicity and reduce the number of animals needed for those tests.
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Brain-Controlled Home Rehab for Stroke in Development
A robotic system for home use to help people recovering from a stroke regain use of their upper bodies is in development by an engineering lab, rehabilitation hospital, and 2 companies in Texas.