Tag: engineering
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Infographic – Q3 A.I. Health Investments Set Record
Venture capital funding for companies worldwide building artificial intelligence solutions in health care set new highs in the third quarter of 2019.
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Phone-Based Infectious Disease Diagnostics Being Developed
An engineering lab is building a system for diagnosing viral infectious diseases with blood samples analyzed by a smartphone add-on.
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Artificial Kidney Component Passes Preclinical Test
A miniaturized bio-electronic device implanted in a pig can process filtered blood like a real kidney without triggering an immune response or blood clots.
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Chip Device More Accurate for Drug Toxicity Than Animals
A plastic chip device lined with liver cells is shown to better predict drug toxicity in humans than lab animals, including drugs that progressed to failed clinical trials.
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Small Biz Grants Fund Simpler Aneurysm Tests
Two recent federal small business grants are supporting development of simple tests to screen for unruptured brain aneurysms in asymptomatic patients.
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Gene Therapy Combo Treats Multiple Age-Related Diseases
A bio-engineering team shows a single experimental gene therapy cocktail can reduce or reverse four age-related diseases in lab mice.
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Smart Robotic Leg Prosthesis Being Developed
A project is underway to develop a smarter and lighter-weight motorized leg prosthetic device that gives the wearer better balance and control.
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Partnership to Assess Digital Gut Disease Treatments
A digital therapeutics enterprise and a company developing therapies for intestinal disorders are evaluating the potential of digital treatments for gut diseases.
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Consortium Building Framework to Boost IoT Data Trust
A group of companies and not-for-profit organizations are creating an open-source matrix of technologies to build trust in distributed smart networked systems.
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Graphene Material Designed for Wearable Devices
An engineering lab devised techniques for better adapting the material graphene to handle the physical stresses imposed by wearable devices.