Space Poop Challenge – Competition to source a system that routes and collects human waste away from the body, hands-free, for fully suited astronauts.

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Competition to source a system that routes and collects human waste away from the body, hands-free, for fully suited astronauts. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeks proposed solutions for urine, fecal and menstrual management systems to be used in the crew’s launch and entry suits over a continuous duration of up to 144 hours. An in-suit waste management system would be beneficial for contingency scenarios or for any long duration tasks. Waste management syste...
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Washington University School of Medicine research found excess weight increases the risk that a benign blood disorder will progress into multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood

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New research shows that excess weight increases the risk that a benign blood disorder will progress into multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood. The study, by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Carrying extra weight increases a person's risk that a benign blood disorder will develop into multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. This is particularly true for older, African-American men. Being overweight...
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‘GoVerifyID’ mobile biometric user authentication software that allows selfies to be the password

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ImageWare Systems is betting that businesses want better authentication — particularly for remote access from smartphones, tablets and laptops. GoVerifyID is an end-to-end mobile biometric user authentication Software as a Service. It allows an organization to easily and inexpensively add face, voice, and fingerprint authentication into any existing security process. It's so easy, you can authenticate with biometrics anywhere. You become the password. ImageWare Systems a San Diego based...
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NASA – Citizen Scientists Discover Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets

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NASA-led citizen science project, eight people with no formal training in astrophysics helped discover what could be a fruitful new place to search for planets outside our solar system – a large disk of gas and dust encircling a star known as a circumstellar disk. A paper, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and coauthored by eight citizen scientists involved in the discovery, describes a newly identified red dwarf star, AWI0005x3s, and its warm circumstellar disk, the kind associa...
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Study finds first time “older” mothers live longer

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Study finds “older” mothers live longer—to 95+. But, what exactly is “older?” In terms of maternal longevity, the definition of “older” just got younger. Six years ago I reported on The New England Centenarian Study that found women who give birth after age 40 were four times more likely to live to 100 or longer than were women who gave birth at younger ages. That was really good news since the number of women having babies after 40 had almost quadrupled at that time. It was also welcomed new...
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Propeller – Bluetooth-connected inhaler sensors and patient apps

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Propeller Health offers solutions, such as Bluetooth-connected inhaler sensors and patient apps, to help enhance compliance and treatment outcomes for respiratory patients, such as those with asthma or COPD. The system monitors how often patients take their medication and can send alerts to caregivers if the disease is considered poorly controlled. FDA approved the Propeller platform for use with GSK’s Ellipta inhaler.” David Van Sickle, CEO and co-founder of Propeller said, “Inclusion of GSK...
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Fast-cooking dry beans provide more protein, iron than ‘slower’ cooked

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Beans are a versatile, inexpensive staple that can boost essential nutrients in a diet, especially for people in low-resource areas where food options are limited. To get the most out of these legumes, new research suggests choosing fast-cooking dry beans could be the way to go. A study in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry found that fast-cooking beans retained more protein, iron and other minerals than “slower” dry beans. According to the World Health Organization about 2 billi...
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Colorado will be the first state in USA to offer drivers a digital version of their driver’s license.

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Colorado will soon become one of the first states in the nation to offer drivers a digital version of their driver's license. Colorado DMV has begun issuing driver licenses, instruction permits and identification cards with new designs in 2016. The card design includes an entirely new format and enhanced features, including laser-engraved information in grayscale, as well as new card material. Valid driver licenses, instruction permits and identification cards with the current design can b...
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EMOTIV INSIGHT – tracks and monitors your brain activity and gives you insight into how your brain is changing in real time.

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Emotiv Insight is a sleek, 5 channel, wireless headset that reads your brainwaves and a mobile app that translates those signals into meaningful data everyone can understand. Next generation Brainwear™ that tracks and monitors your brain activity and gives you insight into how your brain is changing in real time. Emotiv Insight allows you to optimize your brain fitness & performance, measure and monitor your own or your family’s cognitive health & wellbeing, and develop amazing new ap...
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Alcohoot – Smartphone based portable breathalyzer

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Alcohoot is a Smart Alcohol tracker designed to take the guesswork out of how your body responds to alcohol over the course of a night out with friends, or even a year. You’re in control with Alcohoot, our palm -sized alcohol tracker with police grade technology and our iOS and Android app. https://youtu.be/GrEEDEh8OjA Small in size. Serious technology inside. Leveraging Police grade technology, Alcohoot uses Platinum Electrochemical Fuel Cell Technology to ensure you have the most accura...
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Three-dimensional computer model of the human genome

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A group coordinated by the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste has built a three-dimensional computer model of the human genome. The shape of DNA (as well as its sequence) significantly affects biological processes and is therefore crucial for understanding its function. This new study has provided a first three-dimensional, approximate but realistic, identikit of the human genome. Thanks to the characteristics of the new method, the structural reconstruction based on...
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University of Wisconsin cold storage solution keeps organs at right temperature prior to transplantation

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Viaspan was the trademark under which the University of Wisconsin cold storage solution was sold. Currently, UW solution is sold under the ViaSpan trademark and several other trademarks. UW solution was the first solution thoughtfully designed for use in organ. Currently in the U.S. there are over 100,000 patients awaiting kidney or liver transplants with transplant rates of only 20% for kidney and 38% for liver. There is clearly a need to improve both preservation of the organs and to expand...
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NASA’s agency wide Innovation Mission Day – Nov1st

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NASA will host an agencywide event Tuesday, Nov. 1, highlighting innovation by NASA employees. NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman will discuss the importance of encouraging collaboration across the agency, and this keynote presentation will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website at noon EDT. The day-long event for agency employees also will feature activities at each NASA center, including an opportunity for employees to help select new creative ideas through the NASA Innovat...
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Northwestern Medicine scientists find new path in brain to ease depression

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Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a new pathway in the brain that can be manipulated to alleviate depression. The pathway offers a promising new target for developing a drug that could be effective in individuals for whom other antidepressants have failed. New antidepressant options are important because a significant number of patients don’t adequately improve with currently available antidepressant drugs. The lifetime prevalence of major depressive disorder is between 10 to 2...
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California Institute Of Technology researchers have genetically altered bacteria that release medicines to tumors

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A new helper in the fight against cancer and other diseases of the gut may be genetically altered bacteria that release medicines to tumors or the gut. Now, a new study performed using mice demonstrates how doctors might one day better regulate those therapeutic microbes by engineering them to respond to temperature. For instance, if engineered bacteria were administered to a patient with a disease, doctors could, in theory, instruct the bacteria to release medicine to just the site of intere...
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Turn your smartphone into a gold-standard DNA analysis tool

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Turn your smartphone into a gold-standard DNA analysis tool. No lab necessary. Biomeme's platform transforms your smartphone into a mobile lab for advanced DNA diagnostics and real-time disease surveillance. The system includes a docking station for real-time PCR, a mobile app to control the system and analyze results, and targeted test kits for preparing samples and identifying pathogens or diseases by their specific DNA or RNA signatures. The cutting edge platform performs to the gold stand...
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Dario – pocket-sized smartphone based all-in-one glucose meter

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Dario is a personalized, pocket-sized, all-in-one glucose meter coupled with a robust real time mobile app to manage diabetes quickly, efficiently and accurately. The Dario Smart Meter lets you test blood glucose levels in seconds, directly on your smartphone. Once connected to your mobile device, easily track, monitor and manage diabetes with a simple to use mobile app – when you need it, where you need it! The Dario mobile app delivers accurate results in real-time and actionab...
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Research suggests the brain uses color to help us choose what to eat

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Red means "Green light, go for it!" Green means: "hmm, better not!" Like an upside down traffic light in our brain, color helps us decide whether or not to eat something. This, according to a study at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste and recently published in the journal Scientific Reports stating that vision is the main sense we use to guide us in food choices. To evaluate calorie intake, we rely on a "color code." Non-human primates evaluate food quality base...
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Vegetables, fruits, and disease

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Vegetables and fruits are an important part of a healthy diet, and variety is as important as quantity. No single fruit or vegetable provides all of the nutrients you need to be healthy. Eat plenty everyday. A diet rich in vegetables and fruits can lower blood pressure, reduce risk of heart disease and stroke, prevent some types of cancer, lower risk of eye and digestive problems, and have a positive effect upon blood sugar which can help keep appetite in check. Eat a variety of types and c...
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln research shows that Predators can drive increase in virus populations.

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The transparent belly of a tiny beast has revealed how algae-infecting chloroviruses bloom in freshwater around the world, says a new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Millimeter-sized crustacean known as a copepod excretes partially digested paramecia and the green algae living inside those paramecia. A new study has shown that this partial digestion exposes the otherwise-protected algae to chloroviruses, allowing the viruses to replicate and bloom in their freshwater habitats. ...
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‘Digi Honeycomb’ – Real-time food monitoring for freshness

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Digi Honeycomb is a subscription-based food temperature monitoring solution that requires no capital expense. All that's required is placing wireless sensors wherever you want to monitor food temperature and plugging in our communications gateway. Launch our easy-to-configure application to instantly access your temperature records 24/7 on your cell phone or tablet anywhere in the world. https://youtu.be/dqwbOno4Ge0 Digi Honeycomb™ is a subscription-based service comprised of hand-held probe...
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Researchers at ORNL uncover the chemical reaction that helps break down biomass for biofuel

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Lignocellulosic biomass—plant matter such as cornstalks, straw, and woody plants—is a sustainable source for production of bio-based fuels and chemicals. However, the deconstruction of biomass is one of the most complex processes in bioenergy technologies. Although researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) had already uncovered information about how woody plants and waste biomass can be converted into biofuel more easily, they have now discovered t...
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Autonomous delivery robots have started delivering parcel, grocery and food

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Millions of people will have a chance to encounter autonomous delivery robots on the pavements of the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland as part of the testing program announced today by Starship Technologies and major industry partners. A similar program will be announced for the United States shortly. The largest European food delivery company Just Eat, leading German parcel delivery company Hermes, leading German retailer Metro Group, and innovative London food delivery startup Pronto...
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German Max Planck Institute for Meteorology has quantified relationship between individual CO2 emissions and the Arctic’s shrinking summer sea ice

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For each tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) that any person on our planet emits, three square metres of Arctic summer sea ice disappear. This is the finding of a study that has been published in the journal Science this week by Dirk Notz, leader of a Max Planck Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and Julienne Stroeve from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre. These figures enable us for the first time to grasp the individual contribution to global climate change. The study ...
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New Drug Clears Atopic Dermatitis in Clinical Trials

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Atopic dermatitis (AD), also known as atopic eczema, is a type of inflammation of the skin (dermatitis). It results in itchy, red, swollen, and cracked skin. Clear fluid may come from the affected areas, which often thicken over time. The condition typically starts in childhood with changing severity over the years.In children under one year of age much of the body may be affected. As people get older, the back of the knees and front of the elbows are the most common areas affected. In adults th...
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Gene Signature Predicts Response to Radiation Therapy

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Using clinical and genomic databases, a team of scientists including a Northwestern Medicine investigator developed and validated the first molecular signature that can predict responses to radiotherapy for patients with prostate cancer, according to a recently published paper in Lancet Oncology. “This work is an exciting step toward the integration of genomic data into the real life, decision-making process for our patients,” said Edward Schaeffer, MD, PhD, chair of Urology. Schaeffer is als...
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The future of photographic display

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Fracture will change the way you think about photo printing. Watch our introduction video to learn more!. The future of photographic display Fractures are different from traditional pictures and frames. Instead of printing on paper, we print directly on glass. Instead of separating the picture, frame, and mount, a Fracture combines all three into a beautiful, lasting, final product. Taking pictures is great. Printing pictures can be time consuming, overwhelming, and not all that fun. Fr...
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Aera smart home fragrance system powered by the Internet of Things

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Smart fragrance system Aera is looking to tackle outdated home perfuming methods through an activation powered by the Internet of Things. The Aera smart home fragrance system was developed by Prolitec, a brand known for its commercial perfuming systems found in retail and hospitality settings. Citing a lapse in market offerings, Prolitec’s Aera is the brand’s first venture into the consumer space, bringing with it expertise, knowledge and understanding of fragrance distribution and scent deve...
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National University of Singapore, and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have developed self driving scooter

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MIT’s 2016 Open House last spring, more than 100 visitors took rides on an autonomous mobility scooter in a trial of software designed by researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the National University of Singapore, and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). The researchers had previously used the same sensor configuration and software in trials of autonomous cars and golf carts, so the new trial completes the demonstratio...
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Wireless Brain and Spine Implant allows primates with spinal cord injurie to walk

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The research is a step toward the development of a system that might help in rehabilitating people who have suffered spinal cord injuries. An international team of scientists has used a wireless “brain-spinal interface” to bypass spinal cord injuries in a pair of rhesus macaques, restoring intentional walking movement to a temporarily paralyzed leg. The researchers, who describe their work in the journal Nature, say this is the first time a neural prosthetic has been used to restore walking m...
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