Portable in Biological News

New discovery may enhance MRI scans, lead to portable MRI machines

COLLEGE PARK, MD, Nov. 25, 2008 -- Researchers in Ohio and France have solved a longstanding scientific mystery involving magnetic resonance -- the physical phenomenon that allows MRI instruments in modern hospitals to image tissues deep within the human body. Their discovery, a new mathematical ...

Silex Introduces SX-SDWAG 802.11a/b/g SDIO Radio Card for OEM Portable Device Applications

World's First Tri-Band WLAN Module in SDIO Card Form Factor TUSTIN, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Silex Technology today announced the SX-SDWAG, the first world's first wireless module that provides 802.11a/b/g capabilities in an SDIO card form factor. Designed for wireless local area ...

MXI Security and Communication Intelligence Corporation Team up to Deliver the First Green Portable Security Solution for Financial Institutions

MXI Security Recyclable Award Winning Portable Security Devices and CIC's Paperless Biometric and Electronic Signature Solution Offer a Sustainable Approach to Security for Financial Services REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. and MONTREAL, May 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Communication Intell...

Smiths Detection to launch a portable diagnostic system for foot-and-mouth disease and avian flu

PINE BROOK, N.J. (Oct. 13, 2007) Smiths Detection, part of the global technology business Smiths Group, today announces it is to launch a portable detection system that will enable veterinarians to carry out on-site diagnosis of animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth and avian flu. This new techn...

A new portable biosensor detects traces of contaminants in food more quickly and cheaply

Scientists at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), in cooperation with the CSIC, have developed a new electro-chemical biosensor which detects the presence, in food, of very small amounts of atrazine –one of the most widely used herbicides in agriculture and which also has very long lasting...

'Juiced-up' battery fueled by sugar could power small portable electronics

Dutch researcher Harm Veling has demonstrated that our brains fend off distractions. If we are busy with something we suppress disrupting external influences. If we are tired, we can no longer do this. Social-psychologist Veling proved that the brain selects incoming information to remember usef...

MIT designs portable 'lab on a chip'

Testing soldiers to see if they have been exposed to biological or chemical weapons could soon be much faster and easier, thanks to MIT researchers who are helping to develop a tiny diagnostic device that could be carried into battle. By tweaking the design of a tiny pump, researchers affiliated ...

Researchers develop portable 'vein finder' for faster, more accurate injections

When medics are treating trauma patients, every second counts. Yet bruises, burns, and other physical conditions often make it difficult to locate veins and administer lifesaving drugs or solutions. In response, a team of Georgia Institute of Technology researchers is developing an inexpensive, h...

Nanotechnology to provide portable genetic risk detection

Currently being developed by the IST project OPTONANOGEN, a prototype of the system will initially be used to detect mutations of the BRCA1 gene that are responsible for between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the incidence of breast cancer in women. The final system, however, could be used to detect virtual...

Development of portable infectious disease detector

A portable device similar to today's home pregnancy tests that can quickly detect the presence of infectious diseases, including HIV-AIDS and measles, as well as biological agents such as ricin and anthrax, is the object of a new joint university/industry research project. Vanderbilt University's I...

DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

...censed to RFinity of Idaho Falls. Water Sample Concentrator Automated portable device that concentrates and packages a sample of suspected contaminated wa...airs.llnl.gov/news/news_releases/2009/NR-09-07-03.html GeMini - a portable gamma-ray spectrometer based on germanium technology. The instrument is so ...

Toxin detection as close as an inkjet printer

...rinted enzyme retains full activity for at least two months when stored properly, suggesting that such sensor strips should have a good shelf life. portable bio-sensing papers are expected to be extremely useful in monitoring environmental and food-based toxins, as well as in remote settings in less indust...

Clinical trial shows quadriplegics can operate powered wheelchair with tongue drive system

...d by an array of magnetic field sensors mounted on wireless headphones worn by the subject. The sensor output signals were wirelessly transmitted to a portable computer, which was carried on the wheelchair. The signals were processed to determine the relative motion of the magnet with respect to the array ...

Novel handheld device detects anthrax with outstanding accuracy and reliability

...erence confirm the exceptional accuracy of its Ceeker (pronounced "seeker") portable bacterial detection device in discriminating between anthrax spores and sim...itide. "Even better, these extraordinary results were generated by a small portable handheld system that requires no special skills or training to operate and ...

University of Houston diesel testing center teams with state transportation agency to cut emissions

...issions assessment" of each vehicle before the BlueMAX unit is installed. After the installation, the team will monitor the unit's performance using a portable emission measurement system, which is connected to the vehicle during operation in the field. UH's diesel-testing facility, established in 2003 to ...

Uniloc Unveils Industry-First Authentication Technology for Comprehensive Protection of Critical Infrastructure

... devices that attempt to access high-value technology assets. Uniloc provides a patented method of uniquely identifying a user device, such as a PC or portable device, using the naturally occurring, inherent physical characteristics of that device. Uniloc has applied its expertise in Physical Device Recogniti...

Uniloc Unveils Industry-First Authentication Technology for Comprehensive Protection of Critical Infrastructure

... devices that attempt to access high-value technology assets. Uniloc provides a patented method of uniquely identifying a user device, such as a PC or portable device, using the naturally occurring, inherent physical characteristics of that device. Uniloc has applied its expertise in Physical Device Recogniti...

Star Trek-like technology offers noninvasive monitor for patients and athletes

... colleagues. It has the capability to measure blood and tissue chemistry, metabolic rate (oxygen consumption) and other parameters. The sensor and portable monitor are funded by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) for use in space. Soller said the technology's multiple, real-time appl...

Ultrasound imaging now possible with a smartphone

...cabinet-sized to a tiny circuit board one inch by three inches. A typical, portable ultrasound device may cost as much as $30,000. Some of these USB-based pro...e military. Medics could quickly diagnose wounded soldiers with the small, portable probe and phone to detect quickly the site of shrapnel wounds in order to m...

New high-throughput screening technique makes probing puzzling proteins possible

...as anticancer drugs, and the enzymes' broader roles. The success of both experiments offers evidence of fluopol-ABPP's potential. "It's definitely portable among classes and to many enzymes within the same class, so that should increase the scope of use," says Cravatt. The team has already developed d...

New method for detecting explosives

...ts are fast, sensitive, and reliable, they are also expensive and bulky, leading many researchers in the last few years to try to find a cheaper, more portable device for detecting explosives. Much of this research focuses on "micromechanical" devices -- tiny sensors that have microscopic probes on which a...

Revealing new applications for carbon nanomaterials in hydrogen storage

...t on new methods to store and convert energy for new, environmentally friendly modes of transportation and electrical energy generation as well as for portable electronics. Mobility the transport of people and goods is a socioeconomic reality that will surely increase in the coming years. Hydrogen, which c...

Portable kit may 1 day detect plant disease before disastrous outbreak

...eady named the futuristic kit Pathogen Detection Lab-On-a-Chip. "It's a portable system," Shim said. "The idea is to shorten the current detection process t...a better detection system. "There's a need for a system that is not only portable but rapid, accurate and 'dummy proof' so that someone with no background in...

New rainforest mapping technology gets huge support

...rne Observatory (CAO)a unique airborne mapping system that can inventory and probe rain forest vegetation over nearly 40,000 acres per day. The highly portable CAO is flown aboard a fixed-wing aircraft. It uses waveform LiDAR (light detection and ranging) system that maps the 3-dimensional structure of vegeta...

A BBVA Foundation project comes up with a system enabling detection of cetacean hearing loss

...e UPC (Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya) has developed the world's first portable system for measuring cetacean hearing sensitivity. This audiogram measur...health of stranded individuals. Among the innovative features of the new portable system developed by Michel Andr's team with the aid of the BBVA Foundation ...

VUANCE Announces Crime Scene Security and Evidentiary Tracking Development Project

...RFID technologies, including RFID chips implanted in secure credentials and portable readers which can be quickly and easily set up to secure crime scenes. Thes...e capability to integrate active and passive RFID technology, sophisticated portable readers and simple but effective software to manage the overall solution. T...

Compact research freezers to debut in space

...l boost the biological research capacity of the shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS). Capable of minus 160 degrees Celsius, the small, portable freezers can hold laboratory trays, test tubes and various research containers used in biology, chemistry, physics, medicine and other space-based exp...

Rhode Island Hospital simulation center examines benefits and applications of medical simulation

...es describe how simulation centers, along with new portable simulation technology, offer unique training oppor...nologies currently used in simulation centers to a portable platform. In the first article, "Educational and Research Implications of portable Human Patient Simulation in Acute Care Medicine," ...

A card-swipe for medical tests

... The prototype works on the same principle giant magnetoresistance or GMR that is used to read data on computer hard drives or listen to tunes on portable digital music players. "Think how fast your PC reads data on a hard drive, and imagine using the same technology to monitor your health," says Mar...

Scientists map soils on an extinct American volcano

...ts have now begun graduate work at LSU. Ongoing research at the LSU AgCenter is focusing on the validation of soils data and the use of new field portable technologies such as x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) in soil survey. Accurate soils information is vi...

IronKey Opens New European Office

...e rapidly deployed in heterogeneous environments with complete control. Featuring always-on military-grade hardware encryption, strong authentication, portable applications and ultra-fast memory, IronKey delivers unique market opportunities for its channel partners and unprecedented mobile data security solut...

Algal biomonitor

...NA - to detect the algae quickly and easily without the need for highly sophisticated methods or equipment. Crucial to success is the development of a portable device that could be used on board research vessels or fishing vessels equally as well. ...

Advance offers revolution in food safety testing

...use. These advances should be possible and progress is being made on both issues in continuing research, she said. It's possible, Trempy said, that portable kits could be developed that would not require specialized training to use. Results would be available in minutes, convenient and would allow food pro...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Sept. 10, 2008

... +86-21-34205553 Email: qfli@sjtu.edu.cn ARTICLE #4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Flower-shaped nanoparticles may lead to better batteries for portable electronics Nano Letters Want more power and longer battery life for that cell phone, laptop, and digital music player? "Flower power" may be...

New 'chemical radar' among national security innovations in ACS podcast

...ety of surfaces, and withstands common household cleaners. The podcasts are available without charge for listening on computers and downloading to portable digital audio devices at iTunes and other podcasting sites. They also can be accessed on ACS's Global Challenges web site . The site provides audi...

Asthma monitoring on the Web

... more accurate and can provide a clear indication of whether or not medication is being effective. The team has developed the device as a low-cost, portable spirometer built around a pressure sensor for detecting airflow. The sensor is fabricated using technology similar to that for manufacturing computer ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 13, 2008

...a chance of curing it." The system is called FLARE, or Fluorescence-Assisted Resection and Exploration. Under development for the past decade, the portable system consists of a near-infrared (NIR) imaging system, a video monitor, and a computer. "The system has no moving parts, uses LEDs instead of lasers...

Sony Cyber-shot Cameras Get Smarter

...your favorite photos in the camera. It is also possible to export photos shot by other cameras or archived on other media into the camera. The PMB portable software inside the camera lets you easily upload photos or videos to popular social networking sites like YouTube(TM) (a trademark of Google Inc.) us...

ID Analytics Study Reveals Employees' Criminal Misuse of Stolen Identities

...ity, common internal security measures include employee education programs, data access monitoring, and strict policies regarding use of USB ports and portable devices. However, intentional data theft and unintentional data loss by authorized employees continue to be the most common sources of data breaches. ...

Closing the hydrogen economic loop

... The inventor of the nickel metal hydride (NiMH) technology used for building batteries for countless portable electronic gadgets and now hybrid gas-electric cars believes the hydrogen economy is already upon us. In a paper published in the current issue of...