‘Smart’ segmented ring device delivers medications to stop HIV transmission
Credit: Yannick Traore, a recent University of Waterloo PhD graduate. Researchers have designed a device that delivers two medications that ...
Tag: Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering
‘Wonder material’ can be used to detect COVID-19 quickly, accurately
Researchers show a graphene-based sensor can detect SARS-CoV-2Credit: Vikas Berry Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have successfully used ...
Bruisable artificial skin could help prosthetics, robots sense injuries
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c04911 When someone bumps their elbow against a wall, they ...
Particles with ‘eyes’ allow a closer look at rotational dynamics
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Colloids--mixtures of particles made from one substance, dispersed ...
Regenerating damaged eyes with mussel protein and amniotic membrane
Credit: POSTECH The eye is the first sensory organ that recognizes the presence or shape of an object. The conjunctiva ...
New research finds 1M deaths in 2017 attributable to fossil fuel combustion
Contemporary and comprehensive evaluation of source sector and fuel contributions to the PM2.5 disease burden across over 200 countriesCredit: Lab ...
Does zinc inhibit or promote growth of kidney stones? Well, both
First study to validate conflicting theoriesCredit: University of Houston A funny thing happened on the way to discovering how zinc ...
Brain capillary structures show a correlation with their neuron structures
Credit: TMIMS Drs. Itokawa, Mizutani and colleagues performed microtomography experiments the BL20XU beamline of the SPring-8 synchrotron radiation facility and ...
NUS engineers devise novel approach to wirelessly power wearable devices
Researchers successfully demonstrated the use of the human body as a medium for transmitting and harvesting energy to power wearablesCredit: ...
New program fuels Canada’s sustainable energy critical skills training and research
Credit: SFU A new national research and training program will help to jumpstart the development of greener and more resilient ...
Stents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract
MIT engineers used kirigami-style etching to design a stent that can temporarily lodge in tubular organs to release drugs.Credit: MIT ...
Florida Python Hunters May Have a New Tool Thanks to Optics Research at UCF
Special small, mobile cameras help detect more snakes and could lead to an automated python tracker.Credit: University of Central Florida ...
Combating maritime litter
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon categorizes innovative solutions for fighting pollution in the oceansCredit: Photo: Brian Yurasits via Unsplash Plastic bottles drifting in ...
Researchers turned transparent calcite into artificial gold
Credit: Tel Aviv University Breakthrough in metamaterials: for the first time in the world, researchers at Tel Aviv University developed ...
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