Month: September 2015

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Repairing a Damaged, Beating Heart with Glue

– HARVARD UNIVERSITY, MA, USA. An intricate surgical device that delivers glue to internal organs through...
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Discovery of New System for Genome Editing to Dramatically Improve Genetic Engineering

– It is of no doubt that the recent advancements of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technique has...
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How Innovation Occurs: Lessons from Sports

– The history of tennis and the high jump shows us that major innovations may emerge...
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The Next Generation Computer: Bio-computers – Computers Inside Living Cells

– Imagine if you could control the metabolism of cells or organs in your body to...
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The Evasive Agents: How Drug-delivering Nanoparticles Avoid the Immune System

– The use of artificially-designed and synthesized nanoparticles as drug delivery vehicles into the human body...
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Analytical Chemistry and the Hidden Risks of Laser Tattoo Removal

– It might not be obvious from everyday experience, but according to the 2012 Harris Poll,...
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The New Herbalism: Synthetic Biology Provides Alternative Sources for Herbal Extracts

– Throughout human history, there has been an extensive reliance on herbs (and their extracts) as...
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Wearables and Predictive agents: Towards Better Behaving, Cognitive-offloaded Humans

– “A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive […] exertion. The law asserts that...
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US Government Announces Proposal to Revise Current Regulations Related to Human-Subjects Research

– On 8th of September, the Federal Register published a notice jointly made by 14 US...
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Flu Vaccine: The End of Gambling with Nature?

– With the last bit of thunderstorm warning retreats into Lake Michigan, the hot and humid...
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Navigating Sensitive Soft Tissues Using Robotically Steered Flexible Needles

– UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE, ENSCHEDE, NETHERLANDS. Robotically steering flexible needles have been produced to reach tissues...
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Taxibots: The Possible Future of Personal Transportation

– It is 7:30am. You just had your breakfast and are now leaving your building with...
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IOT Persuasive Applications: Getting the Environment to Help in Achieving our Goals

– One of the most attractive applications for consumer IOT consists of creating a physical environment...
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Simple Mathematics Law Used for Fraud Detection

– In 1931, Frank Benford stated a law about the frequency distribution of leading digits in...

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