Tag: engineering
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Organoids Designed for Faster Cancer Diagnostics
A new process grows small samples of tumor tissue in the lab to enable high-speed diagnostics for personalized cancer treatments and drug testing.
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FDA Drafts Brain-Computer Device Regulatory Guidance
Food and Drug Administration is releasing for comment regulatory guidance for its review of implanted medical devices that connect human brains to computer systems.
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Infographic – Countries with Most Space Satellites
The advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists says space is an arena where most activity is for peaceful purposes, such as scientific research.
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Blockchain Prototype Designed for Clinical Trial Data
A bioinformatics lab developed a prototype system for securely transmitting and storing clinical trial data with blockchain that protects against corrupting trial records.
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Prosthetic Hand Gives Better Sense of Position, Movement
22 Feb. 2019. An advance in prosthetics and robotics enables artificial hands to provide a more natural sense of position and reach in the dark or without looking at objects. Researchers from institutions in Switzerland and Italy describe this development in the 20 February issue of the journal Science Robotics. A team from École Polytechnique…
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High-Speed Screens, A.I., Boost Nanoscale Medicines
Biomedical engineers are using high-throughput screening techniques and machine learning to speed and improve the design of new drugs based on nanoscale particles.
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Smart Watch in Development for Respiratory Diseases
A watch-like device is being designed to monitor for early onset of respiratory diseases like the flu, well before noticeable symptoms develop.
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Institute Developing Phone-Linked Graphene Sensors
A research institute is developing sensors made with graphene, worn like a patch on the skin, and connect to a mobile phone to measure key health indicators.
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Scenes From the AAAS Meeting, Fun With Science
Here are a few images from the annual meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science, held this weekend in Washington, D.C.
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Ships Are Becoming Safer With Technology
Here are just several big technological developments in safety that future ships may depend on.