#Stronger black solar coating that retains original color and absorption properties Solar thermal panels developed at EPFL are are dressed up in unique and patented new materials.
One chiral form of Thalidomide worked as an effective treatment for morning sickness in early pregnancy,
resulting in more than 10,000 children worldwide being born with serious birth defects, such as shortened or missing limbs.
#Silly Putty material inspires better batteries Using a material found in Silly Putty and surgical tubing, a group of researchers at the University of California,
and medical devices and even fast food and using it to create next generation battery materials, "said Zachary Favors,
The structure of these nanometre scale machines is at the heart of our understanding of health and disease,
or DNA sequence from one animal into the genome of another plays a critical role in a wide range of medical researchncluding cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and diabetes.
and repel DNALLOWING injections to occur with a tiny, electrically conductive lance,"explained Brian Jensen, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University."
This ability to inject DNA into cells without causing cell death leads to"more efficient injections,
"This may enable future automation of the injections, without requiring manual injection, "Jensen says. It may also mean that injections can be performed in animals with cloudy or opaque embryos."
"Such animals, including many interesting larger ones like pigs, would be attractive for a variety of transgenic technologies,
"said Jensen.""We believe nanoinjection may open new fields of discovery in these animals.""As a next step, Jensen and colleagues are performing injections into cells in a cell culture using an array of lances that can inject hundreds of thousands of cells at once."
"We expect the lance array may enable gene therapy using a culture of a patient's own cells,
and are a key factor in illnesses that result from animal bites and stings and bacterial infections.
but if those nanoparticles cannot be digested effectively they can accumulate in the liver creating a risk of secondary poisoning especially among patients who are already at risk of liver failure.
This will inspire many new designs for detoxification techniques since 3d printing allows user-specific or site-specific manufacturing of highly functional products Chen said.
Nanosponge decoy fights superbug infections More information: Paper: Bio-inspired detoxification using 3d printed hydrogel nanocomposites www. nature. com/ncomms/2014/140full/ncomms4774. htm h
#Flexible supercapacitor raises bar for volumetric energy density Scientists have taken a large step toward making a fiber-like energy storage device that can be woven into clothing
They envision the fiber supercapacitor could be woven into clothing to power medical devices for people at home or communications devices for soldiers in the field.
and serve as energy-carrying wires in medical implants. Yuan Chen a professor of chemical engineering at NTU led the new study working with Dingshan Yu Kunli Goh Hong Wang Li Wei and Wenchao Jiang at NTU;
The device was subjected to constant mechanical stress and its performance was evaluated. The fiber supercapacitor continues to work without performance loss even after bending hundreds of times Yu said.
Such clothing could power biomedical monitoring devices a patient wears at home providing information to a doctor at a hospital Dai said.
Associate professor Baohua Jia led a team of researchers from Swinburne's Centre for Microphotonics to create a micrometre thin film with record-breaking optical nonlinearity suitable for high performance integrated photonic devices used in all-optical communications, biomedicine
Tumors appeared accelerate the tissue aging process by 36 years and healthy breast tissue near breast tumors were an average of 12 years older than tissue elsewhere in the body.
In contrast transforming adult human cells into#pluripotent stem cells which reprograms them to act like embryonic stem cells effectively resets the cells'clock to zero Horvath says.#
#To make it happen the team removed parts of skull from three patients experiencing frequent drug-resistant epileptic seizures then attached a packet of electrodes to their exposed brains.
#Fruit flies Boost STI Immunity Before Sex Among the promiscuous common fruit fly sexually-transmitted infections run rampant.
and stress response genes when they hear the courtship song of a male. This helps them fight off sexually-transmitted infection from the fungus Metarhizium robertsii.
One of these genes#Turandot M#(Totm)# specifically protected the flies against STIS. When the flies were exposed to#a topical infection of the same fungus the#expression of Totm didn't help at all.
The researchers suggest that this immune anticipation is likely to be far more common than currently appreciated in insects#as they write in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. T he courtship-induced preemptive upregulation of Totm might be representative of a general pattern of immune anticipation
#Wii Fit Plus Helps Diabetics Control Blood sugar As you might already know playing Wii Fit is a funny thing.
In a randomized controlled trial older adults with type 2 diabetes had better controlled blood sugar after playing Wii Fit Plus for half an hour a day every day for 12 weeks.
Their blood sugar#level#reductions were on par with study participants who received the â##standard careâ#doctors normally give people with diabetes the U k. s National Health service reports.
This is encouraging because getting set up to play Wii Fit Plus is cheaper than other forms of diabetes care National Health service reports.
The National Health service has a good breakdown of the study which is one of the first to so rigorously examine the health benefits of active video games.
The bottom line is that there s evidence playing Wii Fit Plus daily can help those with type 2 diabetes though it s not exactly a proven treatment yet.
#Preventing Superbugs By Deactivating Antibiotics With A Flash Of Light Bacterial resistance is becoming one of the most serious problems in the medical world
#Drug Cures Mice Of Down syndrome With A Single Dose Cure Down syndrome with a single injection?
A team of scientists from John Hopkins University and the National institutes of health have cured newborn mice of Down syndrome by injecting them with a drug that stimulates
People with Down syndrome usually have smaller brain volumes than control groups including significantly smaller cerebellums a portion of the brain involved in motor control.
The researchers led by Roger Reeves of the John Hopkins University School of medicine treated newborn mice that had been engineered genetically to have Down syndrome-like characteristics with a small molecule called SAG.
After a single injection of SAG on the day the mice were born their cerebellums developed normally into adulthood.
But the drug is a long way from becoming a human cure. The Hedgehog pathway plays an important role
It's possible enhancing the biochemical events that lead to growth in the brain would cause issues elsewhere in the body like potentially raising the risk of cancer.
Down syndrome is very complex and nobody thinks there's going to be a silver bullet that normalizes cognition Reeves said in a statement.
What about the physical characteristics of Downs syndrome? Will the child still have mongoloid characteristics
Down syndrome creates a great many genetic expressions to the individual. some dont get all that are possible. most likely any physiological characteristics would be largely permanent after birth.
The treatment could also create any number of problems being given in utero. this injection was given after the mice were born
and Android#that can be used for the detection of radioactivity in everyday life such as exposure on airplanes from medical patients or from contaminated products.
mosquitoes whiteflies and dragonflies which pick up dinner and pathogens from various food sources. We call them flying syringes she says.
Sampling the viruses they carry could enable her to detect a pathogen early. Usually you wait for an outbreak
An associate professor of food safety and plant biosecurity at Virgina Tech Schmale sends drones armed with petri dishes into the atmosphere to capture airborne crop pathogens.
The data he has gathered explains how pathogens ride on wind currents and provides a glimpse into an almost unknown ecosystem far above our heads.
He's planning to adapt his model to predict the movement of plant pathogens which could help farmers preemptively protect their crops by describing where to strategically deploy pesticides.
They dramatically sped up the study of genetics and disease. The techniques Zhang helped develop called TALE
Zhang plans to use the techniques to study the genetics of autism and schizophrenia. He has begun already to insert genes linked to each disorder one by one into animal models to observe their effects.
and reassembled as often happens in cancer even undamaged genes are expressed at different levels than in a normal chromosome.
Just last year, more than 200 people in Lahore died after contaminated cardiac medicines containing a toxic amount of an anti-malaria drug hit the city's supply.
and patients are desperate for affordable medicine. Consider this: The World health organization says that at least 10 percent to 30 percent of the pharmaceutical market in these countries is compromised."
"says Zaman, now a biomedical engineer at Boston University. The bogus-drug trade isn't just a problem for the world's poorest patients:
Zaman has made a cheap handheld scanner called Pharmacheck to quickly identify fake medicine in villages
clinics, and hospitals. Users (who need only a few days'training) dissolve samples inside a small beaker in the machine.
But others, particularly those in developing countries, might contain an ineffective amount of medicine or release the right amount in the wrong way;
Too strong a signal right away could mean that the medicine wasn't made properly and is probably toxic.
Others contain an ineffective amount of medicine. Meanwhile, the FDA is ramping up deployment of its own handheld scanners,
In the future such a clone could be a source of stem cells for super-personalized therapies made from people's own DNA.
You also fail to mention just how many advances in modern medicine we were given by the Germans.
And yes a lot of medical breakthroughs came from the horrible experiments done by the Nazi's
-which might not actually manage to develop into a human even under the right conditions-than of individuals who suffer daily with crippling diseases that were thrust upon them by chance
Stem cell research is an incredibly valuable source of information concerning real diseases that real humans are really suffering from right at this very moment.
Stem cell-derived organs might in future provide accurate disease models for screening of pharmaceutical compounds reducing the requirement for animal testing
and potentially getting new medicines to the people who need them more rapidly. Not to mention the potential applications of stem cell-derived organs in toxicology screens for new pharmaceutical compounds
in order to reduce the chances of severe side effects manifesting further down the line in real living people.
'there is enormous medical potential here and I think that to deny such potential for the individuals who will most benefit from it in future
#Which Drugs Actually Kill Americans Infographic Death reporting in the U s. requires an underlying cause the event or disease that lead to the death.
This chart represents all those listed in the CDC database as accidental poisoning intentional self-poisoning assault by drugs
or one on diabetes or obesity it would fit but not here. How can you put up this graph
But at the end at our death a doctor will often just list one or a few things that nailed our coffin not all
Upon autopsytheir fatty liver disease resembled that of an alcoholic. However the culprit was excess sugar
and need to be lumped in with'overdose by assault'(basically murder by poisoning) in order to even show up as a single pixel wide line on this graph.
but in reality those levels could never be reached. http://www. druglibrary. org/schaffer/library/mj overdose. htmmarijuana also doesn't cause cancer. http://www. washingtonpost. com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25
Remember the difference between a medicine and a poison is dose. I think the next question people should be asking
It does not show deaths from chronic health problems caused by drug use nor accidents (car crashes falls) nor suicides while intoxicated.
when people email about topics like cancer or depression ads for spiritual meditation services will appear.
They can also track protein buildup in numerous degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer s or Parkinson s. In fact nanoscopy can even be used to visualize the individual proteins in fertilized eggs.
Jonathan Viventi Builds Devices That Decode Thoughts Existing brain implants require individual electrodes to be wired to an external device for data processing.
In animal studies this enabled reseachers to recognize the subtle brain signals that seem to give rise to seizures#a capability#he hopes doctors can use to better understand epilepsy in humans.
These arrays have tremendous potential to improve the quality of life for people with many kinds of disabilities.
Technology can solve many medical problems Viventi says. We just have to plug away and apply what we already know.#
#Building Better Knees For The NBA The stress of repetitive jumping makes NBA players#particularly prone to painful even career-ending cartilage lesions.
For#decades microfracture surgery#pricking holes in the knee bone to stimulate tissue#regrowth#was the gold-standard repair.
So many new procedures coming out are superior says orthopedist Joshua Harris who studied#microfracture s impact on the NBA.
#The Substitute that Deliversto fix a lesion doctors use osteochondral autograft transplant#surgery#(OATS)# to transfer cartilage from a non-load-bearing section of the patient s knee.#
#Riley Williams director of the Institute for Cartilage Repair at the Hospital for#Special Surgery says that unlike microfracture this method implants the collagen-rich hyaline necessary to continue competing at the highest level.#
The New Last Resortused to treat large injuries autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) involves harvesting cartilage from the patient
The two-step process requires open surgery and up to a year of rehab which#dissuades some athletes.
It s difficult to convince people that an ACI is their best option says orthopedic surgeon Andreas Gomoll at Brigham and Women s Hospital even though it s a more durable fix than microfracture.
Because it s completed during a single surgery rehab time is minimal.##Similarly Neocart which is undergoing FDA trials implants collagen on a biodegradable scaffold.
Some studies have shown that non-athletes who#underwent Neocart recovered faster than microfracture patients.##Once#good cartilage products become available microfracture could become obsolete says Charles Roth of the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine.
This article originally appeared in the October 2014 issue of Popular Science e
#Satellite data Maps Sea floor's Hidden Depths While many detailed maps exist of Earth s continents
Paralyzed Rats Walk Again, Now Farther Than Ever Like a severed telephone line (from back in the days when phones had wires) a spinal cord injury can cut off communication between the brain
It's one of the leading causes of paralysis in the United states and the debilitating effects often can be permanent.
But over the past few years scientists have begun to overcome some kinds of paralysis using epidural electrical stimulation or EES for short.
With this technique researchers implant two electrode arrays onto the spine: one above the injury and one below.
Then the top array reads the electrical commands from the brain and beams them to the lower array.
Essentially the EES is a bridge that bypasses the spinal cord injury. The technology has given already paralyzed rats
In the experiment the rats'spinal cords were severed completely causing total paralysis of the hindlimbs. Yet the researchers got the rodents walking again with the help of EES and some training sessions (during
and even tuberculosis#have developed numerous mechanisms to keep themselves alive at all cost#mostly against antibiotics.
and even brain cancer but the MIT researchers are the first to use them to combat antibiotic resistance.#
They also guided the CRISPR to attack bacterial genes that make the microorganism capable of causing disease in the first place.
Meanwhile the phage-delivery method could be utilized more as a therapeutic tool. And depending on how the CRISPR system is designed it can work in one of two ways:
But if CRISPR is designed to remove the bacteria s genes that make them deadly in the first place the system can effectively destroy the infection.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at least 2 million people become infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria each year in the United states resulting in at least 23000 deaths.
Jenkins explains that some buildings such as hospitals may need to reconfigure their interior panels quickly to make way for another patient with different needs.
Hospitals are making decisions for what goes into an intensive care unit 10 years in advance says Jenkins.
if a blow was powerful enough to potentially cause a head injury. At a time when the sport has been hammered with bad news this#might be a game changer.
It also doesn't make use of any bleeding-edge technology. Instead it puts together neurorobotics software
Upper right corner for 1 bottom right corner for 0.)This part of the process takes advantage of technology that several labs have developed to allow people with paralysis to control computer cursors or robot arms.
Researchers have thought about using spider silk for everything from surgical thread to bulletproof vests. There's no reason to make a cute scarf from spider silk of course
Kidding aside an app like this could help people with conditions such as autism that makes it hard for them to read emotions.
#Boy Given A 3-D Printed Spine Implant Doctors at Peking University Third Hospital have implanted successfully the first ever 3-D-printed section of vertebra into the young patient.
The boy named Minghao had developed a malignant tumor on his spinal cord and some of his bones needed to be removed.
So during many hours of spinal cord surgery surgeons at the hospital replaced part of the cancerous vertebra in his neck with the implant.
Placed between his first and third vertebra the implant will allow Minghao to lift his head in the coming months.
which is used also in many other orthopedic implants. But unlike conventional implants 3-D printed structures are created from a virtual design based on the the patient's actual vertebra making them pretty similar to the existing bones
#and allowing them to integrate more naturally. It also means surgeons didn need t to use cement
or screws to hold it in place as they do manufactured with traditionally implants; instead they made tiny holes in the implant
so that surrounding bones can grow into the print and secure it in its spot. Though this surgery is a world s first 3-D printed orthopedic transplants have been gaining momentum within the past couple years.
In June 2011 the first 3-D printed jaw was implanted successfully in Belgium and in April 2013 the Mayo Clinic used a 3-D printer to create a customized artificial hip.
As for Minghao he had been lying in the orthopedics ward for more than two months before surgery.#
#Five days after the operation he still could not speak #but was said to be in good spirits.#
#He ll have to wear special gear for the next three months and it ll be a while before doctors know how the#implant holds up.
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#Emergency Fund Will Bankroll Ebola Research To Help In The Current Outbreak Public and private donors in the U k. have launched an emergency fund for researchers studying Ebola.
which Doctors Without Borders expects to last longer than six months. The Guardian describes what kind of research they're looking to fund:
and weak health infrastructure and where accurate data on the spread of the disease is difficult to come by.
and U s. federal agencies want to fast-track human trials of a promising vaccine. If all goes well,
the vaccine may be available sometime in 2015, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases, told USA Today.
The U k. fund comes from a pool worth $10. 8 million (6. 5 million British pounds),
#MERS Virus May be Able To Spread Through The Air Research strongly suggests that camels carry Middle east Respiratory Syndrome (MERS),
a viral illness that has sickened nearly 700 and killed at least 209 people as of early June, according to the latest update from the World health organization.
and the owner, who came down with MERS a week after administering a topical medicine to his camels'runny noses.
The finding implies that virus could possibly be spread in enclosed spaces such as hospitals and therefore"further studies are needed urgently,
and may be able to bridge the communication divide between cells and biomedical implants. Genetic engineering and Biotechnology News explains:
"or versatile nature, could be used to build implants and prosthetics that can more easily communicate with the human body.
which could help patients avoid additional surgeries. The squid protein reflectin is also being investigated to make better camouflage, thanks to its interesting optical qualities s
The researchers demonstrated that it is possible in principle to coat the structures with interesting biomedical materials by connecting antibodies to the surface of the spiral motors.#
Superparamagnetic Twist-Type Actuators with Shape-Independent Magnetic Properties and Surface Functionalization for Advanced Biomedical Applications.
When an electric current is applied to one of the DEAS it creates a biased stress between the two DEAS thus bending the actuator.
No casualties or even small injuries were reported although the area is being contained and treated with caution.
and related technologies in various fields extending out ofâ the manufacturing sector andâ into hotel distribution medical and elderly nursing-care services.
and actuation could be applied to various types of high-speed intelligent systems including high-speed robots manufacturing systems aircraft microscope image control for bio/medical applications and human-machine
A fun, affordable mealtime assistant for people with upper limb disabilities Shaped like a baby elephant Hellospoon is intended a robot to help children
An Interview with Conor Russomanno Brain-computer interfacing (BCI) is a rapidly growing field that offers huge potential for many applications such as medical grade BCIS to help people with sensory-motor disabilities.
A robotic learning coach for kids with type 1 diabetes Less than three campaign days left!
Back Sproutel#sâ crowdfunding campaignâ to help get robotic healthcare coach Jerry the Bear into the hands of kids with type 1 diabetes.
Jerry the Bear is a robotic learning coach for children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1d) that helps them master their medical procedures all through play!
and even become empowered to practice their own disease care. We were ecstatic to learn that over 5 months after this first shipment families are still playing with Jerry for over an hour each week.
The first bears distributed from our campaign will fulfill a queue of families that have submitted already hardship applications to the Type 1 Diabetes Network.
Android developer hacker hustler and resident diabetes expert if our bears ever become sentient you#ll know whom to blame.
Previouslyâ building rehabilitative toys for kids with cerebral palsy. Happiest in a machine shop with a well-made spreadsheet or fly fishing.
An acrobatic unicycling photographer and developer of mobile games and medical software. A well balanced member of the team.
The Korean government will enhance global cooperation through its Seven Robot Fusion Business Strategies roadmap initially involving the manufacturing automotive medical rehabilitation culture defense education
Other companies are Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited (industrial robotics) Â Absolute Robotics Limited (industrial robotics) Armstrong Healthcare Limited (robotics forâ surgeons
While EEG is less sensitive than implanting sensors on the brain it has the advantage of being noninvasive meaning that the teenager was required not to undergo surgery for this one-off event.
For someone who is paraplegic a major issue when using an exoskeleton is that the person is not able to feel their legs
along with giving those with disabilities a hope for the future. To keep up to date with NCCR Robotics please sign up to ourâ monthly infoletter
from helping nurses in hospitals to inspecting dangerous power plants and tedious farm work. Autonomous cars and drones are other examples of robots.
) geometry (with Droplets measuring angles and distances between them) or the spread of infectious diseases. Using the robots together with an overhead projector allows projecting an RGB coordinate system
It notably supports citizen empowerment through self management of health and disease health promotion and disease prevention.
Their advances have allowed individuals with extensive paralysis and locked-in syndrome to interact with the world around them by controlling a computer mouse with their mind.
Moving a mouse is something that most of us take for granted but an individual with locked-in syndrome that is fully awake and conscious has no other means of producing speech move limbs
or make facial movements. Through a device implanted in the skull the Braingate device interfaces with a computer allowing the individual to interact with their environment.
and supports assistive communication technologies for individuals who are unable to effectively communicate due to neurological injury and disease.
Says Bacher#if we develop a piece of technology for someone with a spinal cord injury who is moving their head to control a computer there s no reason that can#t help someone
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