Peer-Reviewed Publication AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MAGE: USING A BIOLUMINESCENT SUBSTRATE THAT REACTS WITH SARS-COV-2 SPIKE PROTEIN (SHOWN IN THE INSERT), RESEARCHERS HAVE DEVISED A POTENTIAL ONE-MINUTE COVID-19 TEST. CREDIT: RYO NISHIHARA Cold, flu and COVID-19 season brings that now-familiar ritual: swab, wait, look at the result. But what if, instead of taking 15 minutes or...
by Kristin Osborne, University of Washington Researchers at the University of Washington have developed GlucoScreen, a system that could enable people to self-screen for prediabetes. It uses a modified version of a commercially available test strip (white rectangle on the right) with any smartphone—no separate glucometer required. Leveraging the phone’s built-in capacitive touch sensing capabilities, GlucoScreen transmits...
UNIVERSITY OF MALAGA VIDEO: RESEARCHERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS HAVE DEVELOPED AN AUDIO-TACTILE ALGORITHM THAT CONVEYS MELODIC INFORMATION THROUGH VIBRATION CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF MALAGA People with hearing loss will be able to listen to music through the sense of touch thanks to a pioneering prototype that has been devised by researchers of the Department...
ONCE SWALLOWED, THIS CAPSULE IS DESIGNED TO COLLECT BACTERIA THROUGHOUT THE GUT. A SCIENTIST UNSCREWS THE CAP TO RETRIEVE THE SAMPLE AFTER THE CAPSULE HAS LEFT THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. view more Your gut bacteria could say a lot about you, such as why you’re diabetic or how you respond to certain drugs. But scientists can...
A technology developed initially at Case Western Reserve University is behind the global launch by a Portland, Oregon, company of a new, faster and low-cost diagnostic test for sickle cell disease (SCD). The announcement by Hemex Health comes just in advance of World Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Day. SCD is the most well-known among a...
A team of researchers led by ETH professor Martin Fussenegger has succeeded in using an electric current to directly control gene expression for the first time. Their work provides the basis for medical implants that can be switched on and off using electronic devices outside the body. Credit: Katja Schubert / after Krawczyk K et...
by American Heart Association Tommye Austin models one of her TM 2020 masks, which she likes to coordinate to her outfits. Credit: Tommye Austin As Tommye Austin made her way around the COVID-19 unit, she saw patients on ventilators fighting for each breath. She heard nurses, respiratory therapists and other workers talking about how anxious...
by University of Utah “Testing, testing, testing.” It’s a mantra that health officials have been constantly promoting because screening people for COVID-19 is the best way to contain its spread. In the U.S., however, that crucial necessity has been hampered due to a lack of supplies. But University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professor...
A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota have, for the first time, fully 3D printed an array of light receptors on a hemispherical surface. This discovery marks a significant step toward creating a “bionic eye” that could someday help blind people see or sighted people see better. The research is published today in Advanced Materials, a peer-reviewed scientific...
