Researchers at the University of Tokyo identified the pathways for transferring electrons in the bacterial protein MtrF by ascertaining through computer simulation the protein's detailed molecular structure involved in anaerobic respiration, the process by which bacteria and other organisms produce energy in environments without oxygen.
While many living organisms, including humans, produce energy (ATP) for life activities through respiration that requires reduction, the transfer of electrons...
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Axess Mask is a single-use, medical lightweight nasal mask that isdesigned using nano technology to fit comfortably over the patient’s nose.
Crosstex International Inc. and its subsidiary, Accutron Inc., have launched Axess Mask, a single-use, lightweight, and low-profile nasal mask that is contoured to fit comfortably over the patient’s nose.
The Axess Mask and scavenging circuit are constructed of slender, lightweight tubing to reduce drag that can lead to mask displacement. The mask and circuit combined are designed to provide patients with a comfortable experience while offering clinicians easy and unobstructed access to the o...
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Skycamp is an EXPANDABLE hard-shell car roof top tent that gives you the freedom to camp whenever and wherever you want
Skycamp is an EXPANDABLE hard-shell roof top tent that offers phenomenal space: It’s king-size mattress easily fits 2 adults and 2 children, or 3 adults, making it a perfect tent for families, couples or friends on the road. The insulated honeycomb aluminum panel flooring and high density memory foam mattress also offers incredible comfort.
The Skycamp weighs only about 150 lbs (68kg), including the integrated ladder and mattress, which is incredibly lightweight considering the tent’s size ...
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Tokyo-based tire company has developed air-free bicycle tire
Tokyo-based tire company has developed air-free bicycle tire, created together with bridgestone cycle co. the next-generation wheel is a practical application of the company’s ‘air-free concept,’ which eliminates the need for tires to be inflated with air. instead, the tires support the rider’s weight by using a unique structure of spokes made from thermoplastic resin, which stretch along the inner sides of the wheel.
the ‘air-free concept’ removes the need for air by using resin spokes to su...
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Kitty Hawk Flyer is an “all-electric aircraft” that is designed to operate over water
The Kitty Hawk Flyer is a new, all-electric aircraft. It is safe, tested and legal to operate in the United States in uncongested areas under the Ultralight category of FAA regulations. We’ve designed our first version specifically to fly over water. You don’t need a pilot’s license and you’ll learn to fly it in minutes. We publicly revealed the working prototype in April 2017. The official Flyer will be available by the end of the year.
Designed for use over fresh water, the Kitty Hawk Flyer...
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Michigan University researchers have developed Soft silicone structured sugar mold
Anyone who has made Jello knows how difficult it can be to spring the wobbly treat from its mold intact. Now, imagine trying to dislodge something 10 times softer than gelatin, while keeping every detail unscathed down to a microscopic level. That was the problem faced by U-M biomedical engineering professor Shu Takayama.
His team is working with a type of silicone called Sylgard 527. It’s so soft that just a few cells can squeeze it out of shape.
“Soft silicone structures are useful for s...
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‘Black Phoenix’ is an ideation company that is creating an online album of state of the art designs that could represent a whole line of products from utility and semi-civilian drones to multi-purpose mobile weaponry systems and vehicles
Black Phoenix is a fictional corporation that manufactures robots in a not-so-distant future. The idea is creating an album that would be full of designs that could represent a whole line of products from utility and semi-civilian drones to multi-purpose mobile weaponry systems and vehicles.
“Black Phoenix Project” is a collaboration with photographer Maria Skotnikova who is responsible for creating HDR Environment Maps.
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FDA approved gammaCore Personal Non-Invasive headache treatment device
ElectroCore, a neuroscience and technology company dedicated to improving patient outcomes through technological advancement, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the use of gammaCore® (non-invasive vagus nerve stimulator) for the acute treatment of pain associated with episodic cluster headache in adult patients. gammaCore transmits a mild electrical stimulation to the vagus nerve through the skin, resulting in a reduction of pain. This is the first FDA prod...
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TempTraq is 24-hour intelligent thermometer patch that continuously senses, records, and sends alerts of a child’s temperature to your mobile device.
TempTraq is the first and only 24-hour intelligent thermometer that continuously senses, records, and sends alerts of a child’s temperature to your mobile device.
TempTraq can monitor multiple patches assigned to multiple children at the same time. You can set specific alert temperatures and notes for each child.
The value TempTraq offers is priceless, as it’s the only intelligent, wireless way to continuously monitor and track a sick child’s temperature. Unlike other thermometers, TempTraq an...
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DARPA Announces VTOL X-Plane Phase 2 Design
DARPA Announces VTOL X-Plane Phase 2 Design
Unorthodox unmanned aircraft would push the limits of technology to combine plane-like speed and helicopter-like agility into one breakthrough vehicle
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For decades, aircraft designers seeking to improve vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities have endured a substantial set of interrelated challenges. Dozens of attempts have been made to increase top speed without sacrificin...
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The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has discovered Giant viruses appear to have evolved from smaller viruses (not from cells) based on presence of nearly complete set of translation-related genes.
Giant viruses appear to have evolved from smaller viruses (not from cells) based on presence of nearly complete set of translation-related genes.
Viruses have a ubiquitous presence in the world. Their population is estimated to be 1031, 10 times greater than the nonillion (1030) of microbes on the planet—a figure that surpasses the number of stars in the Milky Way. Giant viruses are characterized by disproportionately large genomes and virions that house the viruses’ genetic material. T...
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University Of Seoul researchers have developed gene editing technique that will be helpful in combating genetic mutation that causes diseases such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, and color blindness.
Gene-Editing Breakthrough
Professor Kim Jin-Soo and training researcher Kim Daesik, both of the Department of Chemistry, were part of a research team at the Center for Genomic Engineering, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), that proved that a newly developed gene editing technique will be helpful in combatting genetic mutation that causes diseases such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, and color blindness.
The field of biology has been buzzing with the latest developments of...
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Music moves brain to pay attention according to Stanford University
Music moves brain to pay attention, Stanford study finds
Using brain images of people listening to short symphonies by an obscure 18th-century composer, a research team from the Stanford University School of Medicine has gained valuable insight into how the brain sorts out the chaotic world around it.
The research team showed that music engages the areas of the brain involved with paying attention, making predictions and updating the event in memory. Peak brain activity occurred ...
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Scientists at Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley have now developed a wearable sensor that stays on the skin, stimulates it and measuring the chloride concentration while the person can move around freely.
Scientists at Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley have now developed a wearable sensor that stays on the skin, stimulates it and measuring the chloride concentration while the person can move around freely.
A wearable sensor developed by Stanford researchers can diagnose diseases by measuring molecular constituents of sweat, such as chloride ions and glucose.
A wearable device that extracts sweat and analyzes its constituents to monitor health and d...
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New NeuroStar Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy System for Depression Cleared by FDA
NeuroStar TMS Therapy is an FDA-cleared safe and effective non-drug depression treatment for patients who are not satisfied with the results of standard drug therapy. This novel treatment option provides benefits without the side effects often associated with antidepressant medication.
What is NeuroStar TMS Therapy
(Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation):
Is similar to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Uses precisely targeted magnetic pulses
Stimulates key areas of the brain that are...
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UNSW Australia researchers have found a way to identify bipolar disorder by reviewing Smartphone usage
UNSW Head of Psychiatry Philip Mitchell has been involved in developing a smartphone application that will monitor technology use for the first signs of a manic episode.
The early signs of an episode of mania can be hard to detect, but people with bipolar disorder may soon get help from a smart and constant companion – their mobile phones.
Mental health organisation SANE Australia will soon trial a smartphone application that will monitor a person’s technology use for the f...
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NASA found compelling evidence that Enceladus, Saturn’s icy moon, contains the right chemicals to support life.
The space agency has found the most compelling evidence yet that the ocean underneath the icy crust of Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, could contain life. In the past, the Cassini spacecraft has observed jets of water containing organic chemicalsstreaming from Enceladus.
This latest finding adds a key ingredient for life to the mix: hydrogen. The presence of hydrogen in the jets makes NASA scientists suspect there are geothermal geysers on Enceladus’s ocean floor. Like the geothermal ve...
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You can watch NASA’s rocket lift off LIVE in 360 degrees
NASA wants to put viewers in the middle of the action for its rocket launch Tuesday in a way that's never been done before: by live-streaming a 360-degree video.
Viewers can watch an Atlas V rocket lift off on a supply mission to the International Space Station from the vantage point of the launch pad. If you have a virtual reality device, you can use it to feel as if you're actually at Cape Canaveral in Florida for the launch.
An Orbital ATK spacecraft will launch the United Launch Alliance (...
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Wireless motorcycle helmet has smart brake light that shines at motorist eye level
The brake lights on your motorcycle work okay. But they're mounted low on your bike and don't account for different types of braking. The new Wireless motorcycle helmet has beend evloped with smart brake light that shines at motorist eye level.
Motorcycle helmets are beneficial safety gear, but only in a "In case of emergency, break glass" sort of way, when things are already bad. California startup Brake Free wants to make your helmet useful in preventing the emergency in the first place, bu...
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DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office (TTO) is looking for concepts for designing, developing, and testing advanced technology platforms that provide U.S. forces with overwhelming tactical and strategic advantage on – Virtual Proposers Day on Wednesday and Thursday, May 3-4, 2017
DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office (TTO) focuses on conceiving, designing, developing, and testing advanced technology platforms that provide U.S. forces with overwhelming tactical and strategic advantage, including vehicles, weapons, and other full-scale, potentially field-deployable systems. Whether designed to operate on the ground, at sea, in the air, in space or across domains, TTO platforms and supporting technologies have a common origin: as innovative ideas generated by program managers ...
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Research Data Suggests, Americans’ Cancer Rates Differ by Birthplace
Cancer rates differ between African- and U.S.-born black Americans, a new study finds.
"Typically, cancer occurrence among blacks in the United States is presented as one homogenous group, with no breakdown by country or region of birth," said study co-author Dr. Ahmedin Jemal, an American Cancer Society epidemiologist.
"Our study shows that approach masks important potential differences that may be key to guiding cancer prevention programs for African-born black immigrants," Jemal added.
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University of Washington research have developed a method to identify novel marker for developmental instability by looking at the crooked bite that may indicate early life stress
Research has repeatedly confirmed that the first 1,000 days after conception strongly influence a person’s life expectancy and susceptibility to chronic diseases. The primary marker used to identify early life stress is low birth weight, which can, for instance, indicate poor nutrition of the mother during pregnancy.
But low birth weight is a marker only until birth, about 280 days – far short of a measurement useful for the first thousand days.
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Honda Miimo is an advanced robotic lawn mower that quietly and efficiently cuts your lawn in all weather conditions
Honda Miimo is an advanced robotic lawn mower that quietly and efficiently cuts your lawn in all weather conditions.
Miimo is the clever robotic lawnmowers range by Honda. Powered by its own batteries, Miimo works autonomously and is capable of recharging itself when needed. It can be programmed to a work to a schedule that suits you. Thanks to its micro-mulching capability, Miimo cuts grass clippings into tiny particles - falling into the grass and acting as a natural fertiliser. W...
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University of Utah researchers have developed a way to curb chronic pain by modulating genes that reduce tissue- and cell-damaging inflammation.
For millions of sufferers, there is nothing more debilitating than chronic back or joint pain. It can feel like a lifetime of misery.
But researchers led by University of Utah bioengineering assistant professor Robby Bowles have discovered a way to curb chronic pain by modulating genes that reduce tissue- and cell-damaging inflammation.
“This has applications for many inflammatory-driven diseases,” Bowles says. “It could be applied for arthritis or to therapeutic cells that are being deliv...
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University of Utah research has discovered that damage to collagen, can occur much earlier at a molecular level from too much physical stress, can be a good early warning system for diseases such as arthritis, tissue damage to ligament, tendon or cartilage
By the time someone realizes they damaged a ligament, tendon or cartilage from too much exercise or other types of physical activity, it’s too late. The tissue is stretched and torn and the person is writhing in pain.
But a team of researchers led by University of Utah bioengineering professors Jeffrey Weiss and Michael Yu has discovered that damage to collagen, the main building block of all human tissue, can occur much earlier at a molecular level from too much physical stress, alerting doc...
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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the American Academy of Neurology research found direct correlation to BMI (Body Mass Index)& Migraine. Both obesity and being underweight are associated with an increased risk for migraine
For neurologist Lee Peterlin, migraines run in the family. She and her sister, Jackie, both suffer from migraine headaches that have been, at times, completely debilitating. That’s one reason why, several years ago, she started looking into why they and 30 million other Americans suffer from a neurological disorder whose cause, at least in part, remains a mystery despite the wealth of potential research subjects.
One thing researchers have long known, however, is that migraine sufferers—or migr...
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Toyota has build rehabilitation assist robot designed to help people recovering from a stroke
The Human Support Robot (HSR) is being developed to assist people in their everyday activities. In the future, the HSR will coexist with family members in the home, providing support to improve living conditions and the overall quality of life.
Features
Three key features make it possible for the HSR to operate in indoor environments around people.
1.Compact, Lightweight Body
To better accommodate a wide variety of households, the HSR needs to be lightweight and maneuverable. An ar...
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Duke University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute have created a new technique called DART, that stands for Drugs Acutely Restricted by Tethering
Biomedical engineers have developed a way to deliver drugs to specific types of neurons in the brain, providing an unprecedented ability to study neurological diseases while also promising a more targeted way to treat them.
Drugs are the tool of choice for studying the connections between neurons, and continue to be the mainstream treatment for neurological disease. But a major drawback in both endeavors is that the drugs affect all types of neurons, complicating the study of how cell recepto...
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‘DreamStation Go’ is a small ‘positive airway pressure’ (PAP) device designed to simplify travel for patients living with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
Royal Philips has launched 'DreamStation Go', its a small 'positive airway pressure' (PAP) device designed to simplify travel for patients living with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). At half the size of Philips’ previous generation devices, DreamStation Go delivers the same clinically-proven performance and comfort, for reliable, convenient therapy on-the-go.
Philips simplifies travel for sleep apnea patients with new compact and connected DreamStation Go sleep therapy device
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University Of Utah Research Suggests Multivitamins May Not Help Men’s Hearts, Even When Diet Is Poor
Millions of American men pop a multivitamin each day, but new research shows the pills won't help the heart -- even if a man's nutrition is lacking.
"Many had thought that men with 'poor' nutritional status at baseline may benefit more from long-term multivitamin use on cardiovascular outcomes; however, we did not see any evidence for this in our recent analysis," study author Howard Sesso, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said in a hospital news release.
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