Tag: university
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Micro Robots Made to Climb in Curved, Inverted Spaces
A robotics lab at Harvard University created a tiny, 4-legged robot that travels through tight spots, climbing on vertical surfaces and even upside down.
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Smartphone App Measures Wounds, Tracks Healing
The need for better ways of tracking the size and healing of wounds led a medical resident in Canada to help develop a smartphone app and start a company for these tasks.
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Chip Device to Test Gut Infections on Space Station
A device with human intestine tissue and cells will be launched into space to test effects of weightlessness on immune functions and bacterial infections in the gastrointestinal tract.
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Virtual Reality Illness Fix in Development
A computer science and engineering team in Texas is developing a technical solution for virtual reality experiences that can make some users physically ill, with symptoms like seasickness.
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A.I.-Aided Processes Reduce Chemical Reaction Time, Waste
A chemical engineering lab designed processes with artificial intelligence to screen chemical reactions in small quantities that can reduce the time and waste in current methods.
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Bluetooth Data Added to Ingestible Capsules
Engineers created a sensor device, which in tests with pigs can be packed into a capsule, swallowed, and communicate wirelessly for weeks with Bluetooth protocols.
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Mobile App, Start-Up Find Designated Drivers
A group of current and former students at Virginia Tech designed a smartphone app and started an organization to connect designated drivers to party-goers to take them home safely.
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Validation Scheme Proposed for Medical Algorithms
A law school professor urges developers, users, and regulators of machine learning in medicine to validate the algorithms that represent their underlying decision-making processes.
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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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Patent Set for Long-Term Drug Capsules
Techniques for delivering drugs in capsule form that last a week or longer in the patient are expected to receive a patent soon from U.S. authorities.