by mokosam on November 15, 2009
Zoo Atlanta recently became the first zoological institution in the world to obtain voluntary blood pressure readings from a gorilla. This groundbreaking stride was made possible by the Gorilla Tough Cuff, a blood pressure reading system devised through partnership with the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Created as [...]
by mokosam on November 10, 2009
A group of engineers working on a novel manufacturing technique at NASA`s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., have come up with a new twist on the popular old saying about dreaming and doing: "If you can slice it, we can build it."
That`s because layers mean everything to the environmentally-friendly construction process called Electron Beam [...]
by mokosam on November 10, 2009
When paramedics rush to the scene of a multi-car pileup or a terror attack, their first task is to assess who needs immediate care. But blood hemorrhaging can obscure damage, and the gruesome mess means paramedics can`t always determine who should be treated first.
Tel Aviv University`s new LifeFlow device, currently in development, could become the [...]
by mokosam on December 23, 2008
A prototype of a therapeutic ultrasound device, developed by a Cornell graduate student, fits in the palm of a hand, is battery-powered and packs enough punch to stabilize a gunshot wound or deliver drugs to brain cancer patients. It is wired to a ceramic probe, called a transducer, and it creates sound waves so strong [...]
by mokosam on November 14, 2008
A new configurable chip, which can correct faults in newly manufactured transistors and can be implemented in mainstream devices such as mobile phones and computers, has been developed by engineers at the University of Southampton.
In a paper just published in Electronics Letters, Dr Peter Wilson and Dr Reuben Wilcock from the University`s School of Electronics [...]