Tag: Asia
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Repair Patch Devised for Heart Attacks
Researchers in the U.S. and China designed a hydrogel patch that in lab animals reduces the damage to heart muscle occurring after a heart attack.
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Genetic Risk Analysis Shows Ethnic Bias
Techniques analyzing data from across the genome that reveal risks of diseases, better predict disorders in the main ethnicity of the population studied than other ethnic groups.
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Wireless Sensors Monitor Newborns in ICUs
An international team developed two wireless sensors that safely monitor the vital signs of newborn infants in intensive care units, replacing the multiple wired devices used today.
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Expanding Gel Pill Designed for Long-Term Diagnostics
An ingestible gel capsule is shown in tests with animals to expand and reside in the stomach for as long as a month for delivering drugs or monitoring bodily functions.
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Designing Strawberry Varieties for Japanese Farms
An agricultural genomics company in Israel and auto maker Toyota began a joint project to design new varieties of strawberries to grow on Japanese farms
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Nanotech Gene Therapy Company Raises $8.5M in Seed Funds
A start-up company developing nanoscale particles to deliver gene-editing enzymes, including those for Crispr, is raising $8.5 million in its seed funding round.
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Report – U.S. Lags in Robotic Adoption
A report released today shows the U.S. and most European countries are falling behind most other developed countries, in adopting robotics into their economies.
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Infographic — Can Digital Tech Make a Better World?
Large segments of the public in 10 advanced countries — but not a majority — still believe digital technology can help solve many of the world’s challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and climate change.
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Infographic – Countries with Fastest Internet Speeds
In this weekend’s infographic, we offer a report from the Worldwide Broadband Speed League, a year-long compilation of 163 million Internet speed tests in 200 countries.
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Fully Biodegradable Plastic Straws in Testing
A university research center and biodegradable plastics company are testing a new type of drink straw that degrades completely after use in normal soil and water conditions.