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Color-changing tattoos serve as diagnostic displays
Specially formulated pigments injected into the skin change color to signal the status of a specific health condition.
Girl Scouts announce more STEM-themed badges
Girls Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) has announced the addition of several new science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)-themed badges. The new badges, designed for Girl Scouts in middle and high school, extend knowledge and skills gained by earning similar badges as Daisies, Brownies and Junior Scouts.
Key welding techniques for medical applications
The medical industry’s unique needs also impose constraints on the choice of a welding technique. In particular, a technique needs to adapt to unique part geometries and metallurgy, and must have the ability to make a single spot weld on a small part without introducing an outside material like solder or braze.
Portable platform designed to personalize chemotherapy
The device can determine in real time whether targeted chemotherapy drugs are effective for individual cancer patients.
Pancreas-on-a-chip sheds light on cystic fibrosis-related diabetes
The microfluidic device can be used to study cystic fibrosis-related diabetes and glucose imbalance in specific individuals with the condition.
Report: Automation has tripled in the US manufacturing industry
Robots working in the United States manufacturing industry have tripled over the last couple of decades while in other parts of the world they have doubled, according to a new report.
Watch: Cucumbers cue artificial muscle fiber design
New polymer fiber-based actuators take their cue from cucumbers, or more accurately from the tightly coiled tendrils sprouted by young plants.
Researchers devise AI tool that can detect discrimination
Researchers from Penn State and Columbia University have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool capable of detecting discrimination.
Tiny fiber-optic sensor provides continuous blood flow monitoring
A tiny fiber-optic sensor could surpass traditional methods used to monitor blood flow during surgery or in intensive care settings.
Watch: Upside-down 3D-printing skin and bone for Mars missions
A 3D bioprinting method for use in space produces new skin and bone tissue with resources available to astronauts.
MIT's engineering department heads are now predominantly female
For the first time in the history of the university, the majority of engineering department heads at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are women.
Watch a tiny jellyfish robot swim through several tasks
The 5 mm diameter, untethered, robotic platform was inspired by juveniles of the most widely distributed jellyfish, scyphomedusa ephyra.
Intelligent catheter system relies on fiber optics and mirrors
The Intelligent Catheter Navigation method combines a catheter with an optical fiber containing microscopic mirrors, which reflect a portion of the light passing through the fiber.
Watch: Low-cost OCT system expands the field for eye scans
The compact optical coherence tomography unit is 15 times lighter and smaller than current commercial systems at less than a tenth the retail price.
Dynamically achieve magnetic bead separation and resuspension in one device
It is often necessary to isolate bio-molecules like DNA, RNA or proteins from a solution. The separation process is often carried out by using high-gradient magnetic fields to manipulate magnetic beads attached to the target particles.
Engineers develop man-made "skin" for wound healing
Engineers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have developed a new skin-like fabric for wound dressing with both the thickness and the elasticity to match specific regions of the body and that can eventually be absorbed by the body.
Seeing a patient’s pain with the aid of augmented reality
The system uses artificial intelligence to convert brain activity data into a pain signature visualization so that the clinician can assess pain levels.
Mini MRI produces keener knee scans
The magnet in the compact unit can rotate around the leg, changing the orientation of the magnetic field and improving the clarity of scans.
Wearable helps those with affective disorders monitor emotions
A smart wearable material helps those with depression, anxiety and other affective disorders identify issues and situations that affect their emotions.
Drug delivery is automatic with nanofluidic implant
The remote-controlled nanofluidic drug delivery implant can be tailored for treatment of chronic diseases.