Tag: software
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Computer Game Being Designed to Combat Domestic Violence
15 January 2016. Social scientists and designers in the U.K. are developing a computer game to teach empathy and non-violence in family relationships. The game, for use in the Caribbean and the U.K., is funded by a €400,000 ($US 434,000) grant from the European Commission. The funding, from the EU’s delegation to the Eastern Caribbean…
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Organovo, UC-San Diego Partner on 3-D Liver Tissue
15 January 2016. Organovo Holdings and University of California in San Diego are collaborating on isolating and better understanding human liver cells for the production of 3-D printed liver tissue. Financial and intellectual property aspects of the agreement were not disclosed. Organovo designs and produces human tissue for research and transplant, using its own bio-printing…
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Yahoo Releases User Interaction Data for Machine Learning
14 January 2016. The online company Yahoo is releasing an extensive data set of individual user interactions with some of its popular services to the academic community as raw material for studies of machine learning. The de-identified data sets will be part of Yahoo’s Webscope reference library offered to academic researchers. The data sets cover…
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Smart Pills Detect, Measure Gases in Gut
13 January 2016. A team at RMIT University in Australia developed a device, swallowed like a pill, that measures gas concentrations in the intestine and sends its data to an outside receiver. Proof-of-concept results from tests with pigs appear in the January 2016 issue of the journal Gastroenterology. Researchers led by RMIT engineering professor Kourosh…
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Phillips, Banyan Partner on Point-of-Care Concussion Test
7 January 2016. A collaboration between electronics manufacturer Royal Phillips and medical diagnostics company Banyan Biomarkers Inc. is developing a handheld blood test for concussions and other mild traumatic brain injuries. Financial and intellectual property aspects of the partnership were not disclosed. Traumatic brain injury is caused by a blow or jolt to the head,…
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Clinical Trials to Test Artificial Pancreas
4 January 2016. Two new clinical trials are planned to test a smartphone-based closed-loop artificial pancreas system for people with type 1 diabetes. The system is developed by teams at University of Virginia in Charlottesville and Harvard University, and licensed for commercial development by TypeZero LLC, also in Charlottesville. The trials are funded by a…
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Autism App Adapts Facial Analysis Software
31 December 2015. A research team at Duke University is using facial analysis software routines developed for the U.S. Navy in building a smartphone app to screen for autism. The Duke team, led by engineering professor Guillermo Sapiro, adapted algorithms designed for the Office of Naval Research to analyze emotions displayed through facial expressions. Sapiro…
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Cancer Genome Data Visualization Tool Developed
29 December 2015. A bioinformatics team at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital created a Web-based system that illustrates genetic mutations behind pediatric cancers. The software and database in ProteinPaint, as the system is called, are described in a letter in today’s issue of the journal Nature Genetics (paid subscription required). The team led by Jinghui…
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Detailed Brain Activity Imaging Being Developed
17 December 2015. An engineering group at University of Arizona is developing a new technology that promises to provide better images of electrical activity in the brain. The project, led by Arizona biomedical engineering professor Russell Witte, is funded by a three-year, $1.15 million grant from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of…
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Computer Vision Devised as Drug Discovery Technique
15 December 2015. Pharmaceutical chemists at University of California in San Francisco developed techniques for adapting computer vision, like those used in robotics, to early-stage drug discovery. The team led by UC-San Francisco’s Steven Altschuler and Lani Wu describe its discovery in yesterday’s issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology (paid subscription required). Altschuler and Wu,…