- Published in Innovation News
The future of health care is in our cells
With a groundbreaking technology called nano-optoelectrodes, Virginia Tech associate professor Wei Zhou is working on a new way to make health care more personalized.
With a groundbreaking technology called nano-optoelectrodes, Virginia Tech associate professor Wei Zhou is working on a new way to make health care more personalized.
Xiaofeng Guo, an assistant professor of chemistry at Washington State University, is part of a national team of scientists that recently received $39 million in funding to develop market-ready technologies to increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition.
Researchers in the lab of Michael Mitchell in Penn Engineering have developed a method for delivering lipid nanoparticles across the blood-brain barrier specifically to targeted neurons.
Study reveals a mechanism behind multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C)
With the world’s population projected to reach ~10 billion in 30 years, scientists are working to use genetic technologies to address future food security problems. They have had some success, such as using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing process to develop more disease-resistant pigs, but the advance is useless if the pigs cannot be brought to market and if no one will eat their bacon.
Imagine being able to measure your blood sugar levels, know if you’ve had too much to drink, and track your muscle fatigue during a workout, all in one small device worn on your skin. Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a prototype of such a wearable that can continuously monitor several health stats—glucose, alcohol, and lactate levels—simultaneously in real-time.
Energy-efficient AI imaging technology developed by UCLA engineers works before a photo is snapped. In the diagrammatic example, the camera’s diffractive layers (colored surfaces in the middle) were custom-designed to recognize the handwritten number “2” but diffract light from other numbers, turning it into background noise.
The University of South Florida’s Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) was selected in 2021 by the U.S. Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Office to receive a $3.5M award. CUTR joined 23 other organizations in advancing the important R&D necessary to decarbonize the transportation sector. New technologies are now available for license.