Scientists are recycling nutrients in the oceans to make waterproof glue. Today, animal glues made from bone glue, hide or skin glue, and fish glue are sparsely used for making and restoring objects, paintings, and illuminated parchment manuscripts due to difficulty of storage in a wet state and constant requirement for fresh raw materials. For 20 years, Sam Bowser, a scientist at the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center, has been doing research on a single-celled creatur...

Invented by orthopedic surgeons, HipGrid™ is one of the latest non-invasive measurement systems for hip replacement. This measurement system surgeons is used during operations to access the implant position and restoration of anatomic alignment of the patient. With the help of this technology, they can visualize and quantify where the implants are positioned in relation to key anatomical landmarks while operating. Patients rely on their surgeons' ability to ensure proper positioning and align...

GeoBee!, a new intelligent, accessible, and affordable tablet game, can provide training for skills for children with learning disabilities. Today, there is a tremendous need for vision support in school and in rehabilitation. Children and adults with developmental and language disorders are constantly looking for tools to help boost their performance. GeoBee! is the flagship game from VisionMechanic, Inc., a new tech technology company led by Dr. Charles Boulet who works on vision and motor ...

Scientists at Pennsylvania State University have create a power plastic that sticks together with a drop of water. This mold-able polymer heals itself when exposed to water. It was observed that all squids around the world had proteins in their system which allow them to self-heal. This observation was the basis for creating this polymer. The yield of these proteins is quite low per squid meaning that many animals would have to be processed in order to obtain a usable amount for use in pol...

Imagine having a 360-degree experience to capture, explore with a device that can fit snugly in your hand. The Theta camera, from the Japanese firm Ricoh, is the world's first handheld camera that takes fully spherical photos with just one press of a button. The device fits comfortably in the palm of a hand, similar to a remote control. Its twin-lens system captures the scene around, above and below the device. The shutter button is positioned below the lens making it easy to take the p...

The Assisi Loop provides non-invasive pain relief therapy for pets, an alternative to conventional drug-based treatments. Assisi Animal Health is a science-based company specializing in offering clinical therapeutic solutions to veterinarians or by veterinary prescription to pet owners. As of today, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are the primary therapy mode for treating pain in animals. Yet they account for the largest number of adverse drug reactions as reported to the FDA. To add...

MARVEL is the world’s first 3D, high definition endoscope under 4mm with rotating tip . MARVEL which stands for Multi Angle Rear Viewing tool, has just received the award for Outstanding technology from the federal laboratory Consortium for Innovation in brain surgery Industry today has shifted from open skull operations to the latest techniques in which a tiny camera and tools are inserted through a small hole in the brain called an endoscope, a device that examines the interior of a body...

A novel non-drug treatment, the Freespira Breathing System, can train individuals with panic disorder to adjust their breathing, reducing the number of panic attack occurrences substantially—all at home. Individuals with panic disorder have a different breathing pattern than others, even during times when they are not having a panic attack. Scientists have proved this difference through research that has shown varying respiration rates and exhaled CO2 levels between those with panic disorder ...

A. T. C. G. These four letters, put into a specific order, help determine who we are--our physical traits, personality, intelligence, risk for certain diseases later in life, and much more. And scientists have put their heads together and developed a simple, quick way to edit this order.  It is designed to remove unwanted genes (perhaps a gene that is linked to a genetic disorder) and "paste" other As, Ts, Cs, and Gs. CRISPR, as the technology is called, consists of RNA and a nuclease. The RN...

MIT has created a robot cheetah that is futuristic, innovative, and is pushing the boundaries in robotics. Technology is evolving at a rapid pace. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a particularly interesting field. Many important innovations and breakthroughs arguably are in this area. MIT researchers have created a robot cheetah which has the ability to jump over obstacles (almost like humans jump over hurdles for track and field). "I really wanted to... The cheetah uses a sy...

The electrophoresis market has recently seen the entry of a new series of safer DNA electrophoresis solutions by Cleaver Scientific. These products have been specifically designed to not only improve the safety of electrophoresis procedures but also to reduce the cost and make them more convenient for medical professionals. More conventional DNA gel electrophoresis have the ability to damage both eyes and skin, due to the usage of Ethidium Bromide stain and UV illumination. ‘Combining Cleaver...

Google describes Project Tango as something that gives “mobile devices a human-scale understand of space and motion.” Essentially, sensors in a Project Tango tablet can track the user’s body movements. Usually, virtual reality headsets “are dependent on external technology — in the case of Oculus, the headset is tethered to a PC, while the Vive requires special ‘lighthouse’ base stations that use lasers to scan your immediate environment.” This reliance poses limitations. Project Tango tablet...

Harvard stem cell researchers announced that they have made a giant leap forward in the quest to find a truly effective treatment for type 1 diabetes, a condition that affects an estimated 3 million Americans at a cost of about $15 billion annually: With human embryonic stem cells as a starting point, the scientists are for the first time able to produce, in the kind of massive quantities needed for cell transplantation and pharmaceutical purposes, human insulin-producing beta cells equivalen...

For people who suffer from migraines, cluster headaches, and other causes of chronic, excruciating head or facial pain, the "take two aspirins and call me in the morning" method is useless. Doctors have long associated the most severe, chronic forms of headache with the sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG), a facial nerve bundle, but haven't yet found a treatment that works on the SPG long-term. A technology under clinical investigation at Autonomic Technologies, Inc., (Redwood City, CA) is a patien...

3D printers have been used to make everything from human stem cells to food to full-size cars, and now researchers are using the technology to build models of rocks to study how fluid seeps underground. Geologists are reproducing the microscopic, intricate porenetworks of rocks in scaled up3D-printed models. Franek Hasiuk, a professor of geological and atmospheric sciences at Iowa State University in Ames, is printing replicas of the tiny holes at huge magnifications to get a better look at h...

  Stanford scientists develop water splitter that runs on ordinary AAA battery   Hongjie Dai and colleagues have developed a cheap, emissions-free device that uses a 1.5-volt battery to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen gas could be used to power fuel cells in zero-emissions vehicles. BY MARK SHWARTZ Mark Shwartz/Precourt Institute for EnergyStanford University Professor Hongjie Dai has developed an emissions-free electrolytic device that splits ...

The brains of children with autism are relatively inflexible at switching from rest to task performance, according to a new brain-imaging study from the Stanford University School of Medicine. Instead of changing to accommodate a job, connectivity in key brain networks of autistic children looks similar to connectivity in the resting brain. And the greater this inflexibility, the more severe the child’s manifestations of repetitive and restrictive behaviors that characterize autism, the study...

Be cautious, the plants have ears. Or, far more accurately, they are ears. In a boon to eavesdroppers, researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have figured out a way to reproduce speech by analyzing the surface vibrations of every day objects using our eyes. In one experiment, for example, the researchers shot higher-speed video by means of soundproof glass of a potato chip bag sitting on the floor even though a individual spoke. Even though to the naked eye the bag was just a pi...

It took eight years of research, but the inventor of the Segway finally succeeded in developing the closest thing to a replacement for amputated arms—and it’s a game changer. Dean Kamen’s bionic version works by picking up on the electric signals near the point of amputation and translating those to the prosthetic, a transparent replica of a human arm and hand, complete with fingers and a thumb. Named Luke after the Star Wars hero who lost his hand in a light-saber duel, the arm gives users t...

                                                                                     In what is believed to be the largest genetic analysis of what triggers and propels progression of tumor growth in a common childhood blood cancer, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center report that they have identified a possible new drug target for treating the disease. This time, the treatment doesn’t include chemotherapy. T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is one of the most common and aggressive chil...

Tooth decay is an issue that most of us would prefer not to deal with. Fortunately, the creators of SMaRT Replacement Therapy have come up with an innovative solution to combat this widespread ailment: Use bacteria. SMaRT Replacement Therapy is designed to be a painless, one-time, five-minute topical treatment applied to the teeth that has the potential to offer lifelong protection against tooth decay caused by S. mutans, the principal cause of this disease. The creators have extensively a...