Technology

Next-Generation Illumination Is Here: Quantum Dot-Based White-Blue LED

A Silicon (Si) quantum dot (QD)-based hybrid inorganic/organic light-emitting diode (LED) that exhibits white-blue electroluminescence has been created. A hybrid LED is expected to be a next-generation illumination device for producing flexible lighting an ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2015 - 8:36am

Stretchable Ceramics, Made By Flame

Scientists synthesizing nanoscale materials using simple and highly efficient flame technology have been able to “bake” nanostructures using tin oxide, which opens up a wide field of possible new applications. Metal oxides in bulk form are generally brittl ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2015 - 9:00am

AI Does Science: First Model Of Regeneration Discovered By Non-Human Intelligence

An artificial intelligence system has for the first time reverse-engineered the regeneration mechanism of planaria, small worms that can regrow body parts. This is the first model of regeneration discovered by a non-human intelligence and the first compreh ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2015 - 11:30am

Dynamic Whole-Body PET Scan Detects More Cancer

Imaging lung cancer requires both precision and innovation and clinical positron emission tomography (PET) imaging reates advanced whole-body parametric maps, which allow quantitative evaluation of tumors and metastases throughout the body, according to r ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2015 - 8:00am

Most Advanced Newborn Simulator- Newborn Tory

 The Newborn Tory S2210 is the industry's most advanced, life-like newborn patient simulator, according to manufacturer Gaumard Scientific Company. Fully tetherless and wireless, Newborn Tory enables health care professionals to easily administer and ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2015 - 8:34pm

Injectable Electronics Create Cyborg Tissue

Electronic devices that can be injected directly into the brain, or other body parts, have been a staple of science fiction for decades- and they seem a little closer to reality if you visit Charles Lieber's chemistry lab at Harvard.  A team of inter ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2015 - 2:00pm

Computer Operates On Water Droplets

Welcome to a new way to manipulate matter.  Mixing computers and water typically is usually a bad idea but bioengineers at Stanford have built a synchronous computer that operates using the physics of moving water droplets. They used droplet fluid dynamics ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2015 - 8:57am

First Child Born To Woman Using Ovarian Tissue Frozen During Her Childhood

A case study reports on a young woman who gave birth to a healthy child after doctors restored her fertility by transplanting ovarian tissue that had been removed and frozen while she was a child.  There have been reports of successful pregnancies after ov ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2015 - 10:53pm

SafeTraces: Biological Barcoding Could Contain Health Contamination Crises, So Why Is It Controversial?

Blue Bell Creameries has been battling a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak for the past five years. The potentially killer bacteria was found in ice cream served at a Kansas hospital and sold by retailers. Reports most recently are blaming plants in Alabama ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - Jun 17 2015 - 8:30am

Tests To Gauge Genetic Risks For Prostate Cancer Becoming Feasible

Men with an elevated, genetically inherited risk for prostate cancer could be routinely identified with a simple blood or urine test, scientists at UC San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente Northern California have concluded, potentially paving the way to be ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2015 - 6:00am