Tag: NSF
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Team Performance Explored in Multi-Sensory Work Sites
A research project is underway that examines the ways teams of workers adapt and perform in new industrial environments demanding attention to visual information as well as cues from sound and touch.
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Genome Editing Yields Quality Beer Without Hops
Academic scientists studying synthetic biology with help from professional brewers used genome editing to engineer yeast that produces beer with the taste of hops, but without adding hops.
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Biotech, Pharma Dominate U.S. Academic Patents
In 2016, patents on biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical technologies accounted for 40 percent of all academic patents, with measurement technologies and organic chemistry each getting 7 percent of the total.
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Math Models to Predict Animal-Borne Disease Outbreaks
A team of ecologists and mathematicians is applying machine learning and statistical models to forecast outbreaks of zoonotic diseases, those spread to humans from animals.
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Brown, Toy Maker Partner on Elder Assistance Robots
A collaboration between Brown University and toy maker Hasbro is developing robotic assistants for older people that build on Hasbro’s current line of robotic pets.
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Snake-Like Intelligent Robot in Development
An engineering team is creating a self-powered robot that can travel independently like a snake through uneven and cluttered surfaces, such as disaster sites.
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Brain-Computer Link in Development for Spinal Injury
A consortium of engineering labs is designing a system translating commands in the brain to prosthetic devices that help people walk with spinal cord injury.
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Wearable-Implant Diagnostics Device in Development
A university engineering lab is developing a device combining a sensor chip implanted under the skin and wrist band to diagnose serious diseases and transmit the data.
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Engineered Insulin-Producing Cells to Be Grown in Lab
A team from three universities is developing in the lab synthetic islet cells, the cells that produce insulin in the pancreas, for eventual transplantation in people with type 1 diabetes.
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Synthetic Beating Heart Repair Tissue Being Developed
A bioengineering team is developing a synthetic patch that contracts and sends electrical signals to repair heart muscle tissue after a heart attack.