When the Oculus Rift launched this March, one of our favorite qualities was its built-in audio. The integrated headphones, hanging from the headset band, gave the Rift a unified simplicity: Put Rift on head, start playing. Oculus’ new earphones add only a tinge of complexity, but more than make up for it with enhanced audio...
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Adding A Funny Form Of Carbon To Silly Putty Creates A Heart Monitor
Jonathan Coleman and his son compare graphene-infused Silly Putty (left) with the unadulterated kids stuff. Naoise Culhane/Amber Center, Trinity College Dublin Scientists in Ireland are using a rather unexpected material to make an extremely sensitive pressure detector: Silly Putty. The Irish researchers combined the kids’ plaything with a special form of carbon, and came up...
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Hand-held breathalyzer identifies which foods don’t agree with you
Aire is a hand-held device that figures out which foods disagree with your specific gut, and helps you plan a diet that avoids them(Credit: Foodmarble) It appears the gases coming out of our bodies may have something more to tell us besides the world’s oldest joke. Aire is a small, hand-held device that measures chemicals in your breath...
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Anti-aging research tool
The AI that could uncover the secret of eternal youth: Russian researchers reveal new tool to find life-extending drugs – and say it has already uncovered ten potential therapies GeroScope algorithm can identify the substances that extend healthy life The tool can compare changes in cells of young and old patients Then it searches for the substances...
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Liftware Level
Liftware Level™ Liftware Level — A computerized handle that keeps its attachments level for those with limited hand or arm mobility, which may be associated with cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, Huntington’s disease, or post-stroke deficits, eat more easily. Adapts to your range of motion Liftware Level uses electronic motion-stabilizing technology to keep your utensil...
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Now You Can Taste And Chew In Virtual Reality
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New form of autism found
An international team of researchers led by scientists at IST Austria identified a new form of syndromic autism | Study published in Cell Autism spectrum disorders affect around one percent of the world’s population and are characterized by a range of difficulties in social interaction and communication. In a new study published in Cell, a team...
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A comprehensive map of molecular drug targets
Abstract The success of mechanism-based drug discovery depends on the definition of the drug target. This definition becomes even more important as we try to link drug response to genetic variation, understand stratified clinical efficacy and safety, rationalize the differences between drugs in the same therapeutic class and predict drug utility in patient subgroups. However,...
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New Mechanism to Control Human Viral Infections Discovered
CREDIT: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION This image illustrates the beginning stages of an influenza infection and shows what happens after the influenza viruses enter the human body. RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — A team of researchers, co-led by a University of California, Riverside professor, has found a long-sought-after mechanism in human cells that creates...
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After one dose of gene therapy, hemophilia B patients maintain near-normal levels of clotting factor
Researchers are reporting the highest and most sustained levels to date of an essential blood-clotting factor IX in patients with the inherited bleeding disorder hemophilia B. After receiving a single dose of an experimental gene therapy in a clinical trial, patients with hemophilia produced near-normal levels of clotting factor IX, allowing them to stop clotting...