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$1.2 million grant will help researchers to develop AI tools for improving adolescents' diets

With a $1.2 million grant from Fondation Botnar, an international team of researchers will assess the feasibility of creating and launching a global-scale artificial intelligence (AI) app for mobile devices that diagnoses diet-related problems and offers nutritional advice to adolescent girls living in urban settings in Ghana and Vietnam.

26 Aug 2020

Novel device rapidly measures trace levels of toxic lead in sediments

Rutgers researchers have created a miniature device for measuring trace levels of toxic lead in sediments at the bottom of harbors, rivers and other waterways within minutes - far faster than currently available laboratory-based tests, which take days.

26 Aug 2020

Online assessment tool helps patients make informed decisions

About one in five U.S. adults, an estimated 47 million people, lives with a mental illness. Fewer than half of them receive treatment, counseling or medication. In recent years, smartphone apps have emerged as potentially cost-effective means of expanding access to mental healthcare.

26 Aug 2020

Online health technology can close the gap on racial disparities

New research from Boston Medical Center highlights the benefits of using health technology to engage African American and Black women earlier in preconception care in an effort to close the gap on racial disparities in birth outcomes and maternal mortality.

26 Aug 2020

Synthetic gene fragments from SARS-CoV-2 can help produce accurate diagnostic tests

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have produced synthetic gene fragments from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This material, which is non-infectious and safe to handle, can help manufacturers produce more accurate and reliable diagnostic tests for the disease.

26 Aug 2020

Forsyth Institute to provide research and development support for saliva-based COVID-19 tests

As a world leader in oral biology and salivary diagnostics, the Forsyth Institute is working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative as an advisor and critical resource in the effort to develop and eventually deploy millions of accurate, rapid COVID-19 point-of-care tests used daily in schools, colleges, universities, and for testing underserved populations.

26 Aug 2020

Dartmouth receives $2.5 million to develop device for detecting tumor left behind during surgery

Dartmouth engineers have been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop and test a device--a microendoscopic electrical impedance sensing probe-- that could be used by surgeons to detect prostate cancer still left in the body during surgery.

25 Aug 2020

Artificial intelligence method can rapidly and remotely detect fentanyl and derivatives

To help keep first responders safe, University of Central Florida researchers have developed an artificial intelligence method that not only rapidly and remotely detects the powerful drug fentanyl, but also teaches itself to detect any previously unknown derivatives made in clandestine batches.

25 Aug 2020

New biosensors detect disease-specific miRNA

University of Queensland researchers have developed biosensors that use nanoengineered porous gold which more effectively detect early signs of disease, potentially improving patient outcomes.

25 Aug 2020

Researchers develop new technique to improve cancer treatments

An innovative technique to improve cancer treatments using tumour biopsies less than 30 minutes after they're taken has been developed at The University of Queensland.

25 Aug 2020

Researchers seek to understand the causes of 'cybersickness' and ways to prevent it

‘Cybersickness’ might sound right out of a sci-fi novel, but it’s an illness impacting people across industries today. UNSW Sydney researchers are trying to understand what causes this sickness – and how to prevent it.

25 Aug 2020

Researchers propose new technique to prevent imaging cyberthreats

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a new artificial intelligence technique that will protect medical devices from malicious operating instructions in a cyberattack as well as other human and system errors.

25 Aug 2020

New strategies automate the assessment of stored red blood cell quality

Each year, nearly 120 million units of donated blood flow from donor veins into storage bags at collection centres around the world. The fluid is packed, processed and reserved for later use. But once outside the body, stored red blood cells (RBCs) undergo continuous deterioration. By day 42 in most countries, the products are no longer usable.

25 Aug 2020

Patient monitoring systems show inconsistent effects on sepsis outcomes

Automated patient monitoring systems have been designed to reduce delays in diagnosis of sepsis in hospitalized patients.

24 Aug 2020

New, low-cost technology for subcutaneous injection of viscous formulations

MIT researchers have developed a simple, low-cost technology to administer powerful drug formulations that are too viscous to be injected using conventional medical syringes.

24 Aug 2020

Wide personality traits and attributes can be predicted from social media information

Principle Investigator HARUNO Masahiko and Dr. MORI Kazuma at the Center for Information and Neural Networks, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki, Ph.D.), report the use of machine learning to analyze behavior on Twitter and predict a wide range of personality traits and attributes such as intelligence and extraversion.

24 Aug 2020

Harvard's Wyss Institute launches Torus Biosystems to develop, commercialize DNA nanotechnology

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today that Cambridge, MA-based Torus BiosystemsTM, Inc., will develop and commercialize DNA nanotechnology developed at the Wyss Institute by Peng Yin and David Zhang.

21 Aug 2020

Device / Technology News

$1.2 million grant will help researchers to develop AI tools for improving adolescents' diets

Novel device rapidly measures trace levels of toxic lead in sediments

Online assessment tool helps patients make informed decisions

Online health technology can close the gap on racial disparities

Synthetic gene fragments from SARS-CoV-2 can help produce accurate diagnostic tests

Forsyth Institute to provide research and development support for saliva-based COVID-19 tests

Dartmouth receives $2.5 million to develop device for detecting tumor left behind during surgery

Artificial intelligence method can rapidly and remotely detect fentanyl and derivatives

New biosensors detect disease-specific miRNA

Researchers develop new technique to improve cancer treatments

Researchers seek to understand the causes of 'cybersickness' and ways to prevent it

Researchers propose new technique to prevent imaging cyberthreats

New strategies automate the assessment of stored red blood cell quality

Patient monitoring systems show inconsistent effects on sepsis outcomes

New, low-cost technology for subcutaneous injection of viscous formulations

Wide personality traits and attributes can be predicted from social media information

Harvard's Wyss Institute launches Torus Biosystems to develop, commercialize DNA nanotechnology

Artificial intelligence can help detect heart disease based on facial photos

NPL scientists design a simple, low-cost ventilator

NIST study advances exoskeleton research

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