Tag: physics
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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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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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Home Eye Pressure Gauge in the Works
An easy-to-use device for measuring intraocular pressure responsible for glaucoma is in development by University of Pittsburgh biomedical engineers.
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Univ Lab, Company Developing Phone-Based Virus Sensor
A biotechnology company is sponsoring university research on light waves reacting in characteristic patterns for detecting SARS-CoV-2 viruses by a smartphone camera.
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Brain Signal Synchronization Device in Development
An implantable mental health therapy system is being designed to synchronize signaling rhythms from various regions of the brain.
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Space Mission Testing Sail to Return Launch Vehicles
A space mission in November will test a device that works like a sail to bring back launch vehicles faster, designed by university aerospace lab and start-up company.
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Ultrasound Boosts Cancer Gene Therapy
Ultrasound waves are shown in tests with lab mice to increase the uptake of a gene therapy that invokes the immune system in treating solid tumor cancers.
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Fast Covid-19 Antibody Test Gets BARDA Funds
A company developing point-of-care diagnostics is receiving a federal government contract for a one-drop blood test that detects Covid-19 virus antibodies in five minutes.
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Non-Invasive Fetal Oxygen Monitor Designed
A university engineering lab created a device that safely monitors a fetus’s blood oxygen levels from outside the mother’s abdomen, which could reduce the rate of cesarean sections.
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MD Anderson to Advance Laser Immunotherapy
An experimental cancer treatment that uses lasers to activate drugs that invoke the immune system is being evaluated by MD Anderson Cancer Center.