EURYI project to understand how the brain wires during embryogenesis
One of the great questions of neurobiology, how the brain is built up during embryonic development, could be resolved by a young French scientist in an award winning project organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European Heads of Research Councils (EuroHORCS). Sonia Garel has...Prototype, 7-foot-tall sanitizer automates disinfection of hard-to-clean hospital equipment
...The novel device can sanitize and disinfect equipment of all shapes and sizes, from intravenous line poles and blood pressure cuffs, to pulse oximeter wires and electrocardiogram (EKG) wires, to computer keyboards and cellphones. The invention, nicknamed "SUDS" for self-cleaning unit for the decontamina...UGA researchers achieve breakthrough in effort to develop tiny biological fuel cells
...olvents, attached to metal surfaces as ultra-thin films. "The molecular wires are actually polymer chains that have been grown from a metal surface at ve...transport from active site to electrode," he said. "Hopefully our molecular wires will provide a better conduit for charges to flow." While "flexible elec...Computers Causing Injuries in the Home
... Falling monitors, dangerous wires a growing risk, especially for kids, study shows TUESDAY, June ...slight: From 1994 to 2006, injuries caused by people tripping over computer wires or getting hit by falling equipment rose from about 1,300 a year to 9,300 a...Volcano Announces OCT Activities at EuroPCR 2009
...VH(R) IVUS tissue characterization and ChromaFlo(R). Volcano also provides functional measurement (FM) consoles and single-use pressure and flow guide wires and is developing a line of ultra-high resolution Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Forward Looking IVUS systems and catheters. Currently, more t...Volcano Corporation Presentation at JMP Conference to be Webcast
...VH(R) IVUS tissue characterization and ChromaFlo(R). Volcano also provides functional measurement (FM) consoles and single-use pressure and flow guide wires and is developing a line of ultra-high resolution Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems and catheters. Currently, more than 4,200 Volcano IVUS an...VA Studies Advanced Prosthetic Arm
... An array of sensors embedded in a shoe allows users to maneuver the arm by putting pressure on different parts of the foot. The current version uses wires to relay the signals to the arm, but future versions will be wireless. The arm can also be adapted to work with other control systems, including ...Device Blocking Stomach Nerve Signals Shows Promise in Obesity
...is worn during the daytime hours so that the blocking signal can influence how the stomach functions and food is digested following a meal. The lead wires are implanted in the abdomen laparoscopically, with electrodes attached to the vagal nerves and the neuroregulator, a pacemaker-sized device, is impla...New Study Proves That Minimally Invasive Aneurysm Treatment Yields Successful Long-Term Results
...ion deep in the brain makes a traditional, open neurosurgical approach more dangerous for the patient. Coiling, achieved by placing a mesh of platinum wires in the aneurysm (described as a "bulge" in an artery wall), prevents the aneurysm from rupturing, a serious and often life-threatening condition. Of ...AXIOM Artis dFC Magnetic Navigation
Description:...w method in electrophysiology and interventional cardiology. Assisted by two cutting-edge magnets, physicians are able to guide the catheter and guide wires through the vessels and chambers of the heart with utmost precision....The LifeSync Wireless ECG System
Description:...ough its unique and patented design, the LifeSync(R) System eliminates lead wires and trunk cables between patients and bedside, 12-lead or transport ECG mon...ave critical nurse time by eliminating the need to detach and reattach lead wires when transporting patients, and also facilitates patient mobility and ambul...The Sabet Lenticular Safety Net
Description:...h A 1mm Paracentesis Or Pars Plana Incision, And When Opened Inside The Eye, Provides A Large Surface Area For Fragment Support. Thin And Sturdy wires Minimize Traction In The Vitreous While Supporting A Nucleus....DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009
...her than flat like conventional wires, which lowers heat loss and eliminates energy loss, making longer transmission lengths possible. Superconducting wires can carry five times more power than copper cables and are capable of long-distance power transmission, interconnecting entire continents and providin...Music is the engine of new U-M lab-on-a-chip device
...The U-M system requires only one "off-chip" connection. "This system is a lot like fiberoptics, or cable television. Nobody's dragging 200 separate wires all over your house to power all those channels," Burns said. "There's one cable signal that gets decoded." The system developed by Burns, chemica...Robo-bats with metal muscles may be next generation of remote control flyers
...sponds to the heat from an electric current. That heat actuates micro-scale wires the size of a human hair, making them contract like 'metal muscles.' During the contraction, the powerful muscle wires also change their electric resistance, which can be easily measured, thus p...Crabs' memory of pain confirmed by Queen's academic
...ceans used in food industries are treated. Hermit crabs have no shell of their own so inhabit other structures, usually empty mollusc shells. wires were attached to shells to deliver the small shocks to the abdomen of the some of the crabs within the shells. The only crabs to get out of their s...UK robot sub searches for signs of melting 60 km into an Antarctic ice shelf cavity
...rise. Steve McPhail led the Autosub team during the ten-day survey. He said: "Autosub is a completely autonomous robot: there are no connecting wires with the ship and no pilot. Autosub has to avoid collisions with the jagged ice overhead and the unknown seabed below, and return to a predefined rend...American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- March 11, 2009
...y cleanly from hydrogen and oxygen), scientists have sought to produce long wires from this precious metal. Those wires could be woven into the first self-supporting webs of pure platinum for fue...'Freaks' help scientist unravel nature and nurture
...h controls a light. However, Blumberg points out that many factors control a light, including the person flipping the switch, the bulb, the electrical wires and the power supply. In the same way, he said, a wide range of environmental factors contribute to development. These developmental systems, Blumb...New models question old assumptions about how many molecules it takes to control cell division
...nd proteins," Tyson said. "You could compare it to a computer that is based on integrated circuits or to a mechanical control system based on sensors, wires and servomotors -- except that information processing in cells is unique in two ways. First, the cell is a sloppy, liquid environment, with molecules ...Nano-tetherball biosensor precisely detects glucose
...purpose sensor platform." The single-wall nanotubes are especially suited for electronic sensors because electricity flows more efficiently through wires only a few nanometers in diameter than it does through ordinary wires. The engineers have developed a technique to grow individual carbon nanotubes...Assembly technique for tiny wires may eventually help detect cancer and other diseases
Bottom-up manufacturing may hold the key to production of tiny medical devices capable of testing for multiple molecules like viruses or cancer markers, according to an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers. "Diagnostic chips can be made more useful by assembling, at predetermined lo...Growing tiny carbon nanotube wires to connect computer chips of the future
Computers and electronic devices of the future will utilise technologies not currently available. An example of such a technology is the use of carbon nanotubes as interconnects for computer chips. This is now a step closer to reality with some new work from nanotechnology researchers within the M...New small-scale generator produces alternating current by stretching zinc oxide wires
Researchers have developed a new type of small-scale electric power generator able to produce alternating current through the cyclical stretching and releasing of zinc oxide wires encapsulated in a flexible plastic substrate with two ends bonded. The new "flexible charge pump" generator is th...Molecules line up to make the tiniest of wires
As technology gets smaller and smaller, the computer industry is facing the complex challenge of finding ways to manufacture the minuscule components necessary. Computer chips are constantly getting smaller and smaller. Theres an unrelenting decrease in size. And the question arises, how do you...Motorola Canopy Wires Indian Reservations
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. Though electricity and telephones dont even exist at many of their residences, tribal communities and colleges are the next highly underserved segment to be wired by Motorola Canopy , the wireless unit announced on Monday. Motorola says Indian reservations could be the most unders...Volcano Corporation Presentation At Canaccord Adams Conference To Be Webcast
...VH(R) IVUS tissue characterization and ChromaFlo(R). Volcano also provides functional measurement (FM) consoles and single-use pressure and flow guide wires and is developing a line of ultra-high resolution Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Forward-Looking IVUS systems and catheters. Currently, more t...Plastics that convert light to electricity could have a big impact
...ke batter. The bubbles and channels affect how well the cell converts light into electricity and how much of the electric current actually gets to the wires leading out of the cell. The number of bubbles and channels and their configuration can be altered by how much heat is applied and for how long. T...Scientists create first electronic quantum processor
...simple algorithms. To perform their operations, the qubits communicate with one another using a "quantum bus"photons that transmit information through wires connecting the qubitspreviously developed by the Yale group. The key that made the two-qubit processor possible was getting the qubits to switch "...NIST discovers how strain at grain boundaries suppresses high-temperature superconductivity
...as power transmission, power grid reliability and advanced physics research. One of the main challenges in developing long-length, high-quality HTS wires is to mitigate the effect of granularity on wire performance because grain boundaries are prone to block current flow. Dislocationsdefects in the crys...