Food Storage Technology Improves Consumer Satisfaction

North Carolina State University

To provide consumers with the freshest, highest-quality fruits and vegetables, researchers have long been interested in managing the production of ethylene, which is a naturally occurring hormone in fruit that causes ripening, and eventually, soft...

A Device to Treat Solid GI Tract Tumors

A precision cancer therapy procedure invented at University College Cork (UCC) treats solid tumors of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, including difficult-to-treat esophageal cancer, in an outpatient setting, minimizing hospital time. Developed ...

Web-based Software Uses Math to Grade Students’ Writing

Univeristy of Colorado, Boulder

After 10 years of research, Thomas K. Landauer, Ph.D., a psychology professor at University of Colorado in Boulder, Peter Foltz, Ph.D., a psychology professor at New Mexico State University, and Darrell Laham, Ph.D., a graduate student at Universi...

Molecular Biomarkers Improve Treatment of Colorectal Cancers

University of Southern California USC

Surgery has always been the most accepted treatment for early-stage colorectal cancers, but a groundbreaking discovery from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California will likely provide physicians with more treatment opt...

Synthetic Vitamin D Protects Bone Strength in Kidney Failure Patients

University of Wisconsin Madison

A serious side effect from kidney failure is the depletion of vitamin D hormone, which is manufactured by the kidneys and regulates calcium absorption from the intestines. Without adequate levels of vitamin D hormone in the bloodstream, the body c...

Serving a Better Cup of Coffee

University of Guelph

In recent years, the popularity of single-serve coffee makers has increased dramatically. The handy appliances — commonplace in many homes, office break rooms and hotels — provide convenience for consumers, but at a high cost to the en...

3D Prototyping Technology Cuts Manufacturing Time, Costs

Bowling Green State University

Ceramics are typically manufactured using prototype negative molds. Creating the mold is a time-consuming step that adds extra cost to the manufacturing process. Faculty at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Bowling Green,  Ohio, have d...

3-D Virtual Colonoscopies: Changing Attitudes, Reducing Cancer

SUNY Stony Brook

Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide and claims about 677,000 men and women annually, according to the World Health Organization. This cancer burden can be decreased if cases are detected and treated early. Unfor...

Assay Pinpoints Natural Killer Cells To Improve Transplant Outcomes

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

A bone marrow or stem cell transplant in which stem cells from a donor (called allogeneic) are transplanted into a patient is often the best chance for a cure for patients with recurrent or resistant cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma. However,...

A Novel Partnership Tackles Meningitis

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

In the middle of 2003, Marc LaForce was having trouble sleeping. As the director of the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP), he was missing a vital piece of a difficult puzzle. The MVP sought to commercialize a vaccine that would help prevent Af...

Abilex Device Restores Patients’ Ability to Speak, Swallow

University of Western Ontario

A man injured in a car crash was able to eat by mouth for the first time in five months after using Abilex. A woman left without speech for three years after her stroke used Abilex and is now able to swallow and speak.   The Abilex device ...

Portal Infuses Technology Into K-12 Classrooms

PLS 3rd Learning

Univeristy at Buffalo Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach

University at Buffalo

If Don Jacobs gets his wish, K-12 classrooms soon will be transformed by disruptive and innovative new teaching methods. He also hopes to be part of that change, through his own innovation: web-based systems that offer teachers a searchable curric...

Acadia’s Pest v. Pesticide Challenge

Partnership Seeks “Green” Ways to Save Trees, Crops

Acadia University

Dalhousie University

University of New Brunswick

With rising concerns about the adverse environmental and health effects of traditional pesticides, a major push is under way to develop more “green” approaches to pest management—and not just in Canada but around the world.

ACE Inhibitors Found to Treat Diabetic Nephropathy

Brigham & Women's Hospital

For those with high blood pressure, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors) are a dream come true. By opening arteries, these drugs lower blood pressure and the resultant strain on the heart. But it turns out that ACE inhibitors ...

Activated-Carbon Fabric Garments Absorb Viruses, Toxins and Other Deadly Contaminants

Feng Chia University

What can help people resist the SARS virus, or protect them from contaminated water and air, or electromagnetic waves? The answer is a highly absorbent material called “PAN-Based Activated Carbon Fabrics” that was invented at Feng Chia...

Activator Puts the Brakes on Cancer

University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

As a kid, James Allison loved to figure out how things worked. “I wanted to be the first person on the planet to know something before anyone else,” says Allison, who prepared for a life of discovery by pursuing a bachelor’s degr...

Acuvane: Maximizing wind turbine clean-electricity generation

École de technologie supérieure

If a wind turbine vane is misaligned by just five degrees, the resulting energy loss could cost up to $1 million per year per wind farm. ETS’s Department of Mechanical Engineering created a laser alignment process to calibrate the blades.

Adaptive Technologies Ideal for Small, Adjustable Camera Lenses

University of Central Florida

A scientist at the University of Central Florida’s Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) in Orlando has invented adaptive lenses that change their light focusing properties in response to stimulus such as electrical ...

Adenocard Helps Patients with Abnormally Rapid Heartbeats

University of Virginia

Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) can best be described as an abnormally rapid series of heartbeats that can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. It typically surfaces for the first time in childhood or early adulthood, al...

Invention Holds the Promise of Earlier, More Accurate Alzheimer's Detection

University of Glasgow

Diagnostic Potentials Ltd., a spin-off from the University of Glasgow, has completed a pivotal clinical trial demonstrating that the ADEPT System can detect Alzheimer’s at an early stage. Coupling dense array EEG with a computer program desi...

Advanced Urine-Testing System Delivers Test Results in Hours

George Mason University

A process can go no faster than the slowest step in that process. In urine culture testing, one of the slowest steps takes up to two days to deliver results. However, scientists at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., have invented an innovati...

Sealing Heating and Air Conditioning Leaks from the Inside Out

Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab

Aeroseal, now a division of Carrier Corp., revolutionized the process of searching for, and sealing, hidden leaks in heating and air ducts. Move over duct tape, a new competitor on the market is getting the job done faster and with more energy sav...

Aguru Images Shines Light on Digital Imaging

New York University

University of Southern California

In the world of academic technology transfer, one contact often leads to another, ultimately resulting in new discoveries that enter the marketplace. That is the story of Aguru Images, which merged brilliant academic discoveries from universities ...

ALEKS Tutors Students in Learning to Succeed

University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine)

The groundbreaking intelligent tutoring system developed at the University of California, Irvine, equalizes educational opportunities because it knows exactly what the student knows and what the student is ready to learn. “Alan,” a stu...

Partnership Yields Revolutionary Cancer Drug

Eli Lilly and Co.

Princeton University

The brimstone butterfly adorns the business cards of Edward C. Taylor, Ph.D. A fitting homage to his life’s work, the butterfly symbolizes Taylor’s inspiration to develop the anticancer drug Alimta (pemetrexed). Alimta is currently app...

The Birth of Allegra: Nothing to Sneeze at

Georgetown University

The FDA approved over-the-counter (OTC) sales of Allegra in 2011. Five years later, sales topped $221 million, making Allegra one of the top-five-selling OTC allergy medicines in the United States.

Increasing Mobility for Amputees

Bloorview Research Institute

Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

University of Toronto

Worldwide, about 30 million people require a prosthetic device to walk, yet only 10 percent of those individuals have access to the devices. Prosthetic devices available in developing countries are often rudimentary and do not offer the functional...

Innovative Bandage Saves Lives

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Severe blood loss is one of the leading causes of death in traumatic injury cases. Despite the abundant research that exists on ways to stop surface bleeding (hemostasis), little work has been done to develop special materials that can be applied ...

An Accurate and Definitive Diagnose: the Promise of Altropane®

Harvard University

A fortuitous discovery of a molecule that can differentiate between normal and abnormal levels of brain cells that bear dopamine transporters may hold the key to more accurate and early diagnoses of Parkinson’s disease and attention deficit ...

From Diagnostic to Vaccine: The Fight Against Tropical Disease Continues

TechLab

University of Virginia

University of Virginia Patent Foundation

Each year, more than 3 million children around the world die of diarrhea and other gastrointestinal ailments, primarily in developing countries. Scientists at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) and TechLab, a medical diagnostic manufacturer based ...

Ohio University Researcher Discovers Key to Producing Cheap Hydrogen Fuel

Ohio University

What do nuclear submarines and petrochemical plants have in common? Both use ammonia. Ben Schafer learned about this colorless, pungent gas during a stint as a submariner — or “bubble head” — in the U.S. Navy. Gerardine Bot...

An Effective Therapeutic for Sickle Cell Disease

Virginia Commonwealth University

Donald Abraham’s quest to find a new drug to treat sickle cell disease (SCD) has all the intrigue and plot twists of a suspense novel: It’s a decades-long, against-all-odds pursuit filled with overwhelming obstacles, false starts, unca...

A Promising Tool Against Prostate Cancer

University of Maryland Baltimore

Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer in America (skin cancers excluded) affecting one in six men. In fact, more than 234,000 men in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, according to the Prostate Cancer F...

AnemoCheck Makes At-Home Hemoglobin Testing Easy and Affordable

Emory University

Before the invention of AnemoCheck, hemoglobin levels were measured from blood samples using hematology analyzers housed in hospitals, clinics, or commercial laboratories that requiring skilled technicians to operate. Now, it’s easy and co...

From Pilot Study to Market in Less than 4 Years, Angiotensin II Stabilizes Critically Ill Patients

George Washington University

By targeting a new route to raise blood pressure, the first and only FDA-approved drug of its kind, angiotensin II (trade name GIAPREZA™), may save patients’ lives.An infection (sepsis), allergic reaction, or severe accident can decrea...

Crash-Test Software Saves Lives and Money

Wayne State University

Using crash-test dummies is a good way to make cars safer for dummies — but not necessarily people.

Promising New Antibiotics Effective Against Infections Resistant to and Tolerant of Current Treatments

St Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

For over 100 years, antibiotics have been used to fight bacterial infection and disease. However, bacteria are increasingly developing resistance to front line antibiotics,and new therapies are needed to treat these bacterial strains. Dr. Richard ...

Antimicrobial Coating for Implanted Medical Decices Reduces Risk of Post-Op Infections

Columbia University

Infections are a growing problem in health care settings. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there are 4.5 hospital infections for every 100 patient admissions, and nearly 100,000 deaths annually from hospital infections. To fight this ...

Anti-Sway Control System Improves Crane Safety, Saves Time

National University of Singapore

Industrial crane operators typically manipulate the independent motions of trolley, hoisting and traverse when they are moving payloads. This, however, can result in an uncontrolled swaying motion, which slows down the construction process because...

Taking the Bite Out of Bed Bugs

The Pennsylvania State University

You may have heard stories from those who’ve brought home bed bugs and then spent thousands exterminating the pests. A new biopesticide takes the bite out of expensive remediation.

HALTing PFAs: "Forever" Chemicals That Are No Longer Eternal

University of Washington

PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are synthetic chemicals with strong carbon-fluorine bonds, making them useful for resisting heat, stains and water, but nearly impossible to destroy – they are man-made “forever” chemica...

From Hardware Store to Operating Room

University of British Columbia

Healthcare facilities in the developing world lack many resources, including access to expensive surgical equipment. As a result, some 5 billion people lack access to safe surgery because surgeons do not have access to the right medical equipment....

Designing Devices for Africa's Rural Poor

University of Georgia

University of Georgia Research Foundation

In industrialized countries, a milk cooler is where shoppers grab a gallon of milk at the grocery store. A nutcracker is something people use to pry open a pecan. But in developing countries, those two devices can look quite different. In some cou...

Bovine Intervention: Sleeping Sickness a Thing of the Past

University of Greenwich

One of Africa’s most harmful pests, the tsetse fly, has been all but eradicated from parts of the continent thanks to a novel artificial cow developed by an international group of researchers, including scientists from the University of Gree...

Artificial Lung Helps Patients Breathe Easier

University of Pittsburgh

A 76-year-old woman with chronic emphysema was admitted to a hospital in India earlier this year. She was complaining of shortness of breath and was diagnosed as being in respiratory failure, meaning she had a buildup of carbon dioxide in her lung...

Life-Changing Artificial Pancreas Helps Manage Type 1 Diabetes

University of Virginia

Living with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) requires constant management. Due to a deficient pancreas, food and exercise must be manually balanced against blood sugar and regular insulin injections. Even for patients with insulin pumps and compact monitors,...

UW-Madison Startup's Device Helps Detect Arrhythmias in Infants After Heart Surgery

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

The idea began with alligator clips and electrical tape. Now, a University of Wisconsin Madison startup company is improving care for the tiniest and most vulnerable heart surgery patients. A doctor’s vision for a better way to detect arrhyt...

Emory Researchers at the Forefront of HIV Antivirals

Emory University

More than 90 percent of people in the U.S. who have HIV, and many around the world, take at least one of the drugs invented by Emory researchers Ray Schinazi, Dennis Liotta, and Woo-Baeg Choi. In the early 1990s, Schinazi, an infectious disease ...

Market by Mandate: Weill Cornell Medicine Certified Appropriate Use Criteria

Cornell University

The United States spends approximately twice as much as other high-income countries on medical care, yet utilization rates are similar to those in other nations. One exception is advanced imaging tests, such as MRIs and CTs, which have a higher ut...

Audax Medical Licenses Northeastern U Nano Tech to Battle COVID

Northeastern University

Audax Medical, Inc., a Massachusetts-based medical innovations developer, worked with Northeastern University to license a repurposed pre-market technology that uses a nano-molecular approach to viral therapy and can be deployed in the fight again...

Augmented Neuromuscular Training Helps Heal Injuries, Improve Performance

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

One in two adults are affected by a musculoskeletal condition and 61% of all sports injuries are musculoskeletal*. Conventional treatment of musculoskeletal injury begins with a subjective assessment of an individual’s physical movements. Th...

Automation Technology Speeds DNA Analysis

Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

In the event of a disease outbreak or biochemical terrorist attack, identifying the pathological agents as quickly as possible is critical for mitigating losses. Technology developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., ...

A Better View of Cancer Treatment

Emory University

Thanks to research conducted at Emory University, an imaging compound called Axumin® (fluciclovine F-18) can help provide more accurate diagnostic scans, which allow more informed treatment decisions.

“Magic Bullet” Azedra Gives Hope to Patients with Rare Adrenal Cancer

University of Western Ontario

Western University Chemistry Professor Emeritus Duncan Hunter gets a little choked up when it’s noted the work he began more than three decades ago will now, finally, be applied to saving hundreds of lives in the form of the drug Azedra. &...

Sri Lankan Superfruit Drives Health and Economic Recovery

University of Jaffna

To address the health and economic needs of the region, researchers at the University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka developed a yogurt drink flavored with bael fruit syrup that features the medicinal and therapeutic properties of bael fruit.

Improved Diagnostic Test Targets Hard-to-Detect Bacteria

North Carolina State University

By the time Edward Breitschwerdt was in 9th grade, he knew he wanted to become a veterinarian. After turning that childhood dream into a degree, Breitschwerdt, D.V.M., expected to spend his career taking care of the local animals in Maryland, wher...

Be Free Odor-Eliminating System Offers Freedom to Ostomates

Emory University

Cynthia Timms (BSN, RN, CWOCN), a nurse at Emory Healthcare in the Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing (WOCN) Department in Atlanta, GA, ended up with an ostomy in her twenties due to Crohn’s disease. As a result of her experience of the anx...

Berkeley-Darfur Stoves Improve Women’s Safety and Feed Refugees

Engineers Without Borders

Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab

University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan has displaced nearly 2.3 million people. While many of these individuals live within the safe confines of refugee camps, they are not always out of harm’s way. Women must venture ...

Better Plantlets for Better Plants

Washington State University

Washington State University Office of Commercialization

Using a proprietary growing method developed at Washington State University (WSU), start-up company Phytelligence is producing plants and trees faster than ever, offering a fresh alternative to tree farmers in an industry overripe for innovation. ...

BevShots Takes Flight with Cocktail Imagery

Florida State University

Michael Davidson, of the FSU Magnetic Laboratory, created images of mixed drinks photographed using a light microscope and polarized light. The photo galleries of the pictures were first used by Stonehenge Inc in NYC, a NeckTie business, to create...

BeadChip Types Platelets for Better Transfusion Outcomes

BioArray Solutions

BloodCenter of Wisconsin

In a hospital birthing suite, a mother’s labors are rewarded, and a new life enters the world. But the baby appears to be severely bruised, almost as if it had been beaten in the womb. How could this have happened? In another hospital, a can...

Diagnostic: Nano Biosensors Help Identify and Slow Spread of Major Diseases

Argonne Natl Lab

Throughout history, human migration has contributed greatly to the spread of infectious diseases. Trade caravans, religious pilgrimages and military maneuvers spread many diseases such as influenza, plague and smallpox. Today, epidemics continue a...

3D Bone Implants Developed to Improve Skull Repair

National University of Singapore

“Brain injury occurs more frequently than breast cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury,” remarks Allan I. Bergman, president and chief executive officer of the Brain Injury Association. Standard treatment to prevent b...

Biodegradable Boards Made From Plant Fibers Provide Alternative to Standard Materials

Cornell University

Composite materials, such as particleboard, fiberglass and carbon-fiber products, are held together with a moldable glue or resin. Unfortunately, most glues are not safe for the environment, are not biodegradable, and are often toxic. Many of the ...

Biodegradable Inks Make Tattoo Removal Easy, Affordable

Massachusetts General Hospital

People get tattoos for lots of reasons that seem great at the time — but as life and love change, tattoos, especially if they are highly visible, may cause problems. Removing a tattoo can be painful and expensive and may lead to permanent sk...

Bioengineered, Insect-Resistant Variety of Eggplant Developed

Cornell University

Eggplant is an essential crop in many tropical countries around the world, including India  and the Philippines. However, eggplant fields are often attacked by the eggplant fruit and shoot borer (EFSB), an insect that can causes widespread cr...

Antibody-Based Kits Detect Nut Contamination in Food Processing Machinery

Florida State University

BioFront Technology's MonoTrace ELISAs represent the first line of monoclonal antibody-based kits (MABs) for detecting nut contamination in food matrices. Precisely defined MABs targeting major allergenic proteins help insure sensitive, specif...

Blood Test Helps With Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

Rowan University researchers have invented a blood test to aid in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) based on detection of disease-specific autoantibodies as blood-based biomarkers. Thus far, there are no blood-based diagnostic ...

Biomarkers and Blood Test Breathe New Life into Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Illness

Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research

University of Cambridge

 Early detection and proper care is a common message used by health care organizations in their efforts to educate people and governments throughout the world about winning the war against certain cancers and other chronic diseases. But does ...

Biomarkers Identify Best Options for Leukemia Patients

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

In 2001 the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gleevec™ as a firstline therapy for treating chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). To date results have been impressive. Over 90 percent of the patients who received Gleevec responded...

Technology Converts Agricultural “Leftovers” into Useful Products

University of Western Ontario

A new technology developed at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, enables farmers to convert biomass “leftovers” into valuable commodities such as heating oil, pharmaceuticals and food additives. Department of biochemi...

Bio-Material Improves Heart Surgery Outcomes

Purdue Research Foundation

More than 650,000 open heart surgeries are performed every year. During open heart surgery, the thin sac or casing surrounding the heart is cut open and sometimes even damaged. It’s usually left unrepaired because a compatible repair materia...

Biorefinery Technologies Maximize the Value of Renewable Resources

Research Foundation of SUNY

Forest biorefinery is defined as the full conversion of wood biomass into fibers, chemicals and energy. For decades pulp mills have burned or discarded wood sugars and chemicellulose, which can be used in the manufacturing of plastics, ethanol and...

Small, Biodegradable Spheres May Have Big Impact on Tumor Treatments

University of Minnesota

Jafar Golzarian, M.D., has spent nearly 20 years redirecting traffic — not for vehicles, but for blood flow. Golzarian works in University of Minnesota's Department of Radiology as an interventional radiologist, a specialist who uses ima...

BIOX Technology Makes Biodiesel Faster to Manufacture, Cheaper

University of Toronto

A University of Toronto chemistry professor’s research that began with sewage sludge oils has led to breakthroughs in producing biodiesel — a cleaner form of fuel for diesel engines. Oil and water don’t mix, as any elementary sch...

Black Silicon Revolutionizes How Light is Captured and Stored

Harvard University

In 1999 Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur accidentally created a remarkable new material in his laboratory by subjecting gray silicon to ultra-short bursts of energy from a high-intensity laser. He discovered the surface of the now-b...

Bloodchip Technology Could Change the Face of Blood Testing

University of the West of England, Bristol

Bloodchip® is a new approach to testing blood groups that could save many lives and significantly improve patient care in Europe and worldwide. The new test is intended to replace traditional methods of blood grouping with a highly accurate ge...

University of Michigan Developed Software Recognized for Successfully Battling Lead Pipe Water Contamination

Lead pipes contaminate drinking water, endangering people across the United States, but it can be hard for water utilities to tell which homes are most at risk because they lack accurate service line inventories. This uncertainty delays replacemen...

BluePRO Water Filtration System: Saving Water Resources and Money

University of Idaho

Municipalities and industrial plants are under pressure to meet increasingly stringent clean-water regulations, which often are costly to implement. But they may get some assistance from a cutting-edge firm that has commercialized an innovative wa...

Body Sensor Networks Monitor Physical Data Wirelessly in Real Time

Imperial College London

Professor Guang-Zhong Yang and his team at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London have developed Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) that effectively monitor readouts of heart-rate, blood oxygen levels, temperature and physical activity with...

Planting Seeds to Faster Recovery

Emory University

Tiny “seeds” of radiation placed within the coronary artery minimize growth of cells at the angioplasty site — reducing the amount of scar tissue and improving recovery.

Researchers Realize a Vision to Help the Blind

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)

Sometimes the path technology takes to the marketplace is dotted with people who raise a quizzical eyebrow and say, You want to do what? In the case of the Brainport vision device, some of the first people to do so were two of the co-inventors. Th...

BRCA1 and BRCA2: Predictive Gene Testing Lets Women Know if They Are at Risk for Developing Breast Cancer

University of Utah

Every year, nearly 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Predictive testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes has become a key tool in the fight against the disease.

Breast CT: A New Alternative to Mammography

University of California, Davis (UC Davis)

Computed tomography (CT) is used extensively to identify tumors and other abnormalities in the brain, abdomen and pelvis. In contrast to medical X-rays, which produce a single-layer 2-D image, a CT scan records hundreds of images of multiple tissu...

Crop Protection Gets a Boost with Biotechnology

InsectiGen

University of Georgia

University of Georgia Research Foundation

Big problems can come in small packages. Case in point: The insect pests that feed on crops. Each year, these tiny creatures cause large-scale agricultural devastation around the world. For farmers, that erodes revenue worth billions of dollars an...

Helping Newborns and Their Parents Breathe Easier

Rice University

Each year, millions of babies are born with an urgent struggle: breathing. It’s particularly common for premature babies who don’t have fully developed lungs, and one solution that can save lives is a machine called a bubble CPAP (whic...

Buffalograss May Bring Relaxation Back to Your Summer

University of Nebraska

For hundreds of years, hearty, drought-resistant buffalograsses have thrived on the Great Plains of America. The search for improved, urbanized buffalograsses that could be used for lawns, golf courses, parks, and other commercial turf application...

BullEx Digital Safety Makes Hot Product Out of Fire Extinguisher Training

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Not all technology breakthroughs spring from the brains and laboratories of those with a Ph.D. Sometimes undergraduates have pretty darn good ideas, too. That’s the whole point of the Inventor’s Studio at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institu...

Breakthrough Rare-Disease Therapy Gives Children the Opportunity to Live Healthy Lives

Indiana University

A breakthrough therapy that can treat two rare childrens’ diseases has been brought to market thanks to the efforts of Indiana University faculty and its Innovation and Commercialization Office (ICO).Burosumab, brand name Crysvita, has orpha...

Emory Expands Existing Tech to Build COVID Symptom Checker

Emory University

Feeling feverish? Wondering if it’s coronavirus? In 2020-21, Emory University quickly pivoted to adapt existing software into a free online symptom checker to help anyone assess the likelihood they've contracted COVID-19. Based on the an...

Tumor Marker Assay Helps Identify the Recurrence of Breast Cancer

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

The monitoring of breast and other types of cancer with blood tests is critical for improving the odds of successful treatment. Discovering cancer markers that identify the progression of cancer at early stages is a research goal for many medical ...

Methodology and Tool for Mechanically Sorting and Cleaning C. Elegans

The nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), is a premier model organism for genetic studies across a range of basic and biomedical research. In addition to the straightforward and controlled nature of their cultivation in the laborator...

Campath: Collaborations Across Continents Prove Successful

University of Cambridge

It is fitting that the promising cancer therapy called Campath® begins with the letter “C” — the same letter that starts the word “collaboration” (not to mention “continents” and “commitment.&rdq...

Campus Incident Tracking System Supports Campus Security

Boston University

Campus safety is a top priority among college and university administrators. When director Peter Schneider and associate director Ron Slade of Boston University’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety (OEHS) realized there was no softwar...

New Test Kit Improves In Vitro Fertilization Success Rates

McGill University

In vitro fertilization (IVF) can be an emotional roller coaster for many couples, one that often ends in disappointment; using current methods, about 85 percent of healthy-looking embryos transferred through IVF fail to result in pregnancy. Aside ...

Carbon Nanotechnology Lowers Cost of Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Florida State University

To keep the world’s growing army of cell phone towers constantly powered so mobile phone users can enjoy ubiquitous service, telecommunication providers are scrambling to find viable solutions to supplement unstable power grids or meet new r...

Carbovir Compounds Offer New Alternatives for AIDS Patients

University of Minnesota

When the National Institutes of Health requested that he patent his discovery, Dr. Robert Vince, professor of medicinal chemistry and director of the Center for Drug Design at the University of Minnesota, realized the impact his anti-HIV Carbovir ...

Ultrasound Technology Helps Maximize Beef Production

Kansas State University

A more efficient and profitable form of beef production became possible with the invention of the innovative carcass ultrasound technology invented by Kansas State Professor John Brethour. The technology offers beef producers a fast, non-invasive ...

Visual Acuity Test Helps Determine Vision Problems in Young Children, the Intellectually Impaired

Cardiff University

When people cannot express in words what they see, it is difficult for health care professionals to determine the nature of visual problems they may have. That’s why Professor Maggie Woodhouse, Ph.D., at the Cardiff University School of Opto...

Electronic Career Portfolio Reports Skills, Not Just Jobs

Florida State University

Oftentimes what makes or breaks students’ success in getting a job is their ability to demonstrate that they have obtained knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for the required position throughout their college experience. The standard...

CaseNEX Brings Research to Life in Classrooms Everywhere

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia developed CaseNEX in early 2000 — a research-based methodology that educators apply during case study analysis. The CaseNEX methodology represents the type of jobembedded professional development required by the fe...

CATCH: Comprehensive Assessment for Tracking Community Health

University of South Florida

Three University of South Florida professors from the colleges of Public Health, Computer Information Sciences and Business Administration joined forces more than 10 years ago to use their combined expertise to develop a tool for assessing communi...

Colorful Hybrids Brighten Gardens Across America

University of Connecticut

Millions of home gardeners have beautified their yards with colorful flowers developed by Professor Ron Parker, Ph.D., at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. Parker’s plant-breeding work was highly unusual in that he made extensive use of ...

Scientific Visualization Leads to the CAVE

University of Illinois, Chicago

Imagine being able to stand inside a human heart and watch blood flow around you. Or, imagine test-driving a car, before it actually has been built. Through the wonders of the CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment), the first technology to wide...

Antimicrobial Agent Kills Food-Borne Pathogens Safely

University of Arkansas

Deadly microbes such as Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria are a big concern for food-processing plants. Despite the food industry’s efforts to maintain clean work environments, these organisms still enter the food chain and sicken thousands ...

Cell Biology Tools Offer Unique Benefits

University of South Florida

Cell proliferation assays are widely used in cell biology research, in academia, and in the burgeoning global biotech and pharmaceutical sectors. Assays, or scientific tests, are used to measure the impact of a given substance or environmental tre...

Cellulosic Ethanol Technology Holds Key to Inexpensive Fuel

Dartmouth College

Timing, alas, is nearly everything. For years, Alla Kan, the director of the Technology Transfer Office at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., shopped around the cellulosic ethanol technology developed by professor Lee Lynd at Dartmouth’s Th...

Cellulosic Ethanol: A Cleaner, Lower-Cost Alternative to Petroleum

University of Florida

Because of increasing costs and dwindling reserves of petroleum, the world is focusing more on ethanol as an alternative fuel. Ethanol can be created from a variety of plants, the most well-known being corn. In the late 1980s, professor Lonnie Ing...

Green Power of Centia Moves Biofuel Energy Closer to Reality

North Carolina State University

The cry for alternative fuels echoes around the world. It doesn’t really matter whether individual cries are in mourning the toll of global warming, or in fear of the ever-diminishing supply of fossil fuels, or both. In any case, the plainti...

Using a Pill, Rather Than an IV, to Treat Gaucher Disease

University of Michigan

During the 1980s, an important collaboration took shape at the University of Michigan between two researchers: Norm Radin, a neurochemist; and Jim Shayman, a nephrologist (a doctor who specializes in kidneys). They shared an interest in studying l...

Viewing Blood Flow in the Brain

University of Missouri

The first drug of its kind to help physicians look at blood flow abnormalities in the brain of patients with neurological disorders — providing an important diagnostic tool in brain research and medical treatment.

Scientists Find Promising Treatment for Neglected Killer Diseases

University of Washington

Yale University

A University of Washington and Yale University collaboration yields a set of chemical compounds that may hold the key for treating infectious parasitic diseases including Chagas’ disease and malaria. The compound was licensed to a nonprofit ...

Innovative Chemical Clean-up Techniques Help Restore the Earth

Univerersity of Connecticut

University of Connecticut

Long before George Hoag took an academic interest in the environment, he forged a personal connection with it. “As a child, I just loved being outdoors,” he says. “Camping, skiing, biking, you name it.” Hoag, an avid hiker,...

Microchip Diagnostic Revolutionizes HIV Monitoring in Developing Countries

University of Toronto

An HIV-positive woman living in a remote African village walks 37 kilometers, six-month-old baby in tow, to the nearest health clinic for a simple blood test to determine if her disease has progressed to AIDS. She will have to make the same arduou...

Cholera Vaccine Keeps Turkeys Healthy

Brigham Young University

If you enjoyed that gobbler you and your family ate at Thanksgiving, or simply like the occasional turkey-on-rye sandwich, you may be indebted to a Brigham Young University (BYU) emeritus professor of microbiology named Marcus Jensen. Jensen, who ...

Minichromosomes Carry the Key to Improved Crops, Better Yields

University of Chicago

Unversity of Chicago

The projections are dire. “World Population in 2300,” a report released by the United Nations’ Expert Meeting on World Population in 2004, predicted that the planet’s population will grow nearly 50 percent — to more t...

Cinnamon Extract Provides Powerful Defense Against Viruses

Tel Aviv University

With antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” on the rise, new strategies and materials are desperately needed to combat these and other potentially deadly microorganisms, including human and avian influenza. Tel Aviv University, Isarel, has t...

Magnetic Imaging Identifies Microchip Failure Quickly, Accurately

Brown University

When microchips fail in semiconductors and electronic devices, the root cause can be difficult to diagnose. Complex circuits and equipment often have to be painstakingly disassembled piece by piece, and even then the reason for the system failure ...

Chemotherapy Drug Offers Hope for Hairy Cell Leukemia

Brigham Young University

Hairy cell leukemia represents about two percent of all forms of leukemia, typically affecting men and women between the ages of 40 and 70. Most patients are white males over 40. Men are four to five times more likely to be affected by this form o...

Processing Text With Domain-Specific Spreading Activation Methods

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

The launch of Clarigent Health’s Clairity app comes as clinicians respond to a mental health crisis linked to months of stress, anxiety, and isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The continued need for social distancing has prope...

New COVID-19 Saliva Swab Boosts Testing Capacity

SUNY Upstate Medical University

Testing is critical to prevent and contain the spread of COVID-19. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization for Clarifi COVID-19 on September 22, 2020. The new, rapid diagnostic test developed by re...

ClearGlide Eases Vessel Harvesting for Coronary Bypass Surgery

Emory University

Sixteen years ago, Alan Lumsden, M.D., FACS, was a heart surgeon and professor at Emory University, and he was troubled. A small but necessary step in preparing for coronary bypass surgery was causing disproportionate problems for his patient...

Single Use Vaginal Speculum Improved Patient Outcomes

University of South Florida

The ClearSpec® Single Use Vaginal Speculum is an innovative device that can not only improve patient outcomes but can also improve patient discomfort often associated with gynecological exams. ClearSpec® Single Use Vaginal Speculum has bee...

Seeing More Means Hearing More

Univesity of Illinois

As the father of a child with recurring ear infections, Ryan Shelton felt the frustration that many parents experience because inner ear problems are so difficult to diagnose and treat. But unlike most parents, Shelton had a doctorate in biomedica...

Cloned Enzymes Identify Bacterial Toxins at Extremely Low Levels

National University of Singapore

Because horseshoe crab blood immediately clots when it comes into contact with bacteria, the blood of this unique animal has been used for decades by pharmaceutical companies for testing the purity of sterilized medical equipment and human injecta...

Cochlear Implant Brings Sound and Language to Thousands

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

An electronic hearing device developed by neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco gives the gift of sound to thousands of people who have lost their hearing and brings normal language to people who have been deaf since birth...

Serving a Greener Cup of Coffee

University of Guelph

Thanks to researchers at University of Guelph, consumers are now brewing a more earth-friendly cup of coffee. The popularity of single-serve coffee makers has grown dramatically in recent years. The handy appliances provide convenience for consume...

Cogmed Working Memory Training Improves Memory, Reasoning

Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

Much has been discovered about working memory and how problems with it can affect how we function and how we learn. Working memory problems occur in a range of populations including those afflicted with attention deficit and/or hyperactivity disor...

EKU-Developed Test Kit Shines a Light on E. Coli Detection

Eastern Kentucky University

When Eastern Kentucky University professor, Dr. Jason Marion traveled to East Africa with a group of students studying public and environmental health, he encouraged them to identify concerns close to home that they could research and solve for. W...

New Oral Vaccine Will Improves Health of Swine Herds Worldwide

Université de Montréal

Maintaining healthy livestock is one of the best ways for producers and ranchers to ensure profitability, as well as food safety. Researchers at the Université de Montréal in Quebec, Canada, have developed an oral vaccine that prevents and control...

Color-Coded Beads Help Women Avoid Unwanted Pregnancies

Georgetown University

Women who are poorly informed about pregnancy prevention — especially in poor or developing nations — are at much higher risk for unplanned births. Large numbers of children can create additional economic and emotional hardships for st...

CLA: A Versatile Fatty Acid with Promising Applications

University of Wisconsin Madison

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)

The pivotal collaborations that lead to groundbreaking inventions are typically born in the hallways of research institutes or during coffee breaks at scientific conferences. But on a running path? That’s where two ambitious scientists with ...

Lincoln Lab Designs COVID-19 Contact Tracing System

Lincoln Lab

To better see who an individual interacted with and where they were before a COVID-19 diagnosis, a team of researchers from MIT and Lincoln Laboratory led institutional partners in developing a digital "contact tracing" app that users ca...

Reducing Rat Populations Through Non-lethal Pest Control

University of Arizona

Two mating rats can produce 15,000 descendants in one year alone. They have achieved evolutionary success, to be sure, but that success becomes problematic when those populations cross paths with humans.  They spread disease, eat and destro...

CEA Systems Offers Efficient Ways to Bring Food to the Table, Lab

CEA Systems

CEA Systems, and its partner, Cornell University, have developed an agricultural technology that could save energy, provide better food security and control, and lead to the creation of products for pharmaceuticals and other high-value plant-based...

Letting Cooler Roofs Prevail

Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab

Imagine it’s a hot summer day, and you can choose between walking barefoot on a black asphalt sidewalk or one that’s concrete. Unless you’re a glutton for punishment, you’d probably choose the relatively cooler, light-color...

Northeastern Startup Turns Cool Idea into Greener Alternative to Air Conditioning

Northeastern University

A technology invented at Northeastern University is poised to provide an environmentally friendly alternative to air conditioning systems for homes and other buildings—a cool idea that began with an overflowing paper recycling bin and a blen...

From Tamales to Skateboards: A Green Idea Harvested from the Corn Belt

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Professor Scott White, Ph.D., had a regular weekly lunch date with two colleagues in the early 1990s who, like him, had recently been hired at the University of Illinois. They had similar backgrounds in designing composite materials, so they start...

Staggered Banknote Identification Card Aids the Blind

Universidad de Costa Rica

In order to improve the quality of life of the blind and visually-impaired people, Costa Rican banknotes use different colors, sizes, and tactile marks to distinguish the different types of banknotes used in the country. Proffesor Eric Hidalgo-Val...

UW-Madison Research Yields the Most Widely Prescribed Blood Thinner

University of Wisconsin Madison

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)

Coumadin, a blood thinner for treating heart patients and preventing blood clotting, is today the most widely prescribed blood thinner in the world.

Grading the Professor: Online Tools Give Instructors Feedback on Their Courses

University at Buffalo

University instructors depend on evaluation and feedback from their students to revise and improve their study materials and teaching methods. This information is also useful for academic planning and accreditation activities. Researchers at the U...

UMN Develops First-of-Its-Kind Alternative to Traditional Ventilators

University of Minnesota

Ventilators serve a crucial role in treating COVID-19—but the surge in patients outpaced the number of ventilators available. The low-cost device, known as the “Coventor” was designed by University of Minnesota researchers and an...

Surgically Implanted Plate Ideal for Challenging Fractures

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Metaphyseal fractures are breaks that occur at the end of a bone, near the junction between the tubular shaft and the blocky end of the bone. Standard methods of repair, including casts, external fixators, pins and plates, may result in less-than-...

As America Rediscovers the Sweet Potato, a Variety Takes Root

North Carolina State University

Traditionally served just once a year on American’s Thanksgiving Day dinner tables, sweet potatoes are starting to pop up everywhere, from pancakes and salsa to fine dining and fast food restaurant menus. Reaping the benefits of the vegetabl...

Cryoablation Catheter Reduces Risk of Heart Complications

Emory University

Since medication helps only about half of the seven million people worldwide who experience atrial fibrillation (AF)—a sustained fluttering or rapid beating of the heart—alternative, catheter-based treatments are vital. Episodes can la...

New Imaging Technique an Early Indicator of Treatment Response

We cannot survive without oxygen. The hemoglobin in our blood transports oxygen from our lungs to every organ throughout our body. Interruption of blood flow can lead to death of oxygen-starved tissue. Blood flow, or tissue perfusion, is measured ...

Columbia, Med Center Researchers Team to Produce 1.5M+ Face Shields

Columbia University

In just one week, Columbia Engineers designed, prototyped, scaled up, and manufactured thousands of face shields for NYC-area health care workers. By the end of the week, 1.5 million more shields were on order for New York-Presbyterian and other h...

University of Oklahoma Spin-out Delivers Next-Gen Antibody Blood Panel That Helps Diagnose Neuropsychiatric Disorders

University of Oklahoma

Grace Harper was a healthy, outgoing 5-year-old before she suddenly began having unexplained fits of rage and obsessive-compulsive behaviors so severe that she was suspended from kindergarten. She had few friends, struggled in school and was torme...

Shedding Light on Cancer Surgery and Treatment

Phil Low, Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, is working to revolutionize cancer treatment by developing several ‘cancer-lighting’ molecules. Low and his team of researchers in West Lafayette, IN,...

Cytokine Intervention Shows Promise for Fighting the Painful Inflammation of Rheumatoid Arthritis

University of Glasgow

New methods of modifying the immune response are showing great promise in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. One of these methods is “cytokine blockade,” best shown by the success of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blockers. Cytokines ...

Providing a Live View of the Cellular World

Auburn University

When Vitaly Vodyanoy wanted to see something that had forever been invisible, he figured out a way to see it. Cobbling together glass lenses and playing with the angles of various light sources, he built a novel microscope that allowed him to see ...

Leprosy: Test Kit Tackles a Disease That is Forgotten but Not Gone

A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore

Scientists from A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore have developed a genetic testing kit to identify the potential for dangerous adverse reactions to leprosy medication.

Helping Educators Empower Diabetic Patients

University of Illinois, Chicago

Nearly 26 million Americans are affected by diabetes, a disease that impairs the body’s ability to produce or use the hormone called insulin that controls glucose (sugar) levels in the blood. The disease, which can lead to devastating health...

Anonymizing Health Care Information for Higher Use

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)

University of Ottawa

Privacy Analytics, a Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute Inc. and University of Ottawa spin-off, has developed the world’s only proven, responsible way of unlocking the value of health data, ultimately impr...

De-inking Technology Enhances the Value of Recycled Material

University of Georgia

Adequately removing ink from wastepaper pulp has always been a challenge for the paper industry. De-inked pulps that appear dirty and dark are less in demand and have fewer markets, especially for high-quality printing, writing and tissue paper gr...

Technology Advances Lead to Reduced Motor Vehicle Fatalities

University of Nebraska

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, more than 38,800 people were killed in the U.S. in 2020 as a result of motor vehicle accidents. Hoping to battle back that annual statistic, researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL...

Pioneering Researcher Plants Seeds of Biotechnology Success

University of Calgary

For more than two decades, University of Calgary Professor Maurice Moloney, Ph.D., has focused on the molecular biology of plant development. But it was his research on seeds and oilbodies — the protein-covered spheres within seeds that are ...

Diagnostic Test Warns Mothers Before Preeclampsia Strikes

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ctr

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Preeclampsia is a potentially dangerous complication of pregnancy that can strike women as early as the 20th week of gestation with little notice. It is characterized by a sudden spike in maternal blood pressure, edema and protein in the urine. In...

Diagnostic Kits Speed Detection of Infectious Diseases

National University of Singapore

Malaria and dengue fever are mosquito-borne diseases that affect millions of people in the tropics, with malaria killing about three million people worldwide every year. Rapid, accurate diagnosis is paramount for timely treatment or emergency resp...

U ANDES Develops Dialect Platform to Assess K-12 Reading Skills

Universidad de los Andes

International standardized test results show Chilean reading skills are still very poor, with more than 60 percent of K-12 students failing to reach a baseline level of proficiency.  In an effort to change this, in 2012 researchers from the...

Lens Helps Cataract Patients See at All Distances

University of Arizona

Imagine having cataracts, then finding a way to see - at all ranges - without contacts or glasses. Previous cataract surgeries offered clarity for only two distances: near and far. What about the intermediate range? A University of Arizona optic...

Direct Injection Retrofit Kit for Two-Stroke Cycle Engines Cuts Pollution

Colorado State University

Carbureted two-stroke engines are one of the world’s largest sources of air pollution, specially in Southeast Asia. Nearly 35 percent of the fuel in these engines escapes directly into the exhaust and never burns, resulting in high hydrocarb...

CSU dGH Technology Helps Detect Genomic Structural Variation, Health Risks

Colorado State University

NASA’s first One Year Mission attracted much media attention as the mission’s astronaut, Scott Kelly, had an identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, who was also an astronaut and former Navy test pilot. The perfect “out-of-this world...

Cystic Fibrosis Discovery Hailed as a Medical Milestone

Hospital for Sick Children

The discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene by researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and the University of Michigan leads to improved health care and global scientific knowledge. Sixteen years ago, Grant Boyle’s birth was a ...

Discrete Element Model Helps Prevent Wheel Slips

Coupi's Polyphysica particle-based simulation model and discrete element method is a software product and method originally developed to support NASA missions to explore surfaces of the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and comets. It was created by rese...

Chemical-Free Strategy Keeps Food Pest-Free

University of California, Davis (UC Davis)

Every day at mealtime, millions of people worldwide are joined by uninvited guests: namely, pathogens and other pests that reside in food. When consumed, the contamination often leads to dire consequences. Microbes like E.coli and salmonella harbo...

DNA Testing: Changing Lives with Billion-in-One Precision

University of Glasgow

Verifying identities through DNA testing has become a part of daily life as well, leading to richly rewarding experiences that include solving crimes, reuniting families and bringing people closer together.

Life-Saving Warmth for Newborns with Hypothermia

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Hypothermia contributes to the death of an estimated one million newborns every year, almost exclusively in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs). These deaths are especially tragic because they are easily preventable. Premature or low bi...

Smartphone App Steers Drivers Toward Safety

University of Minnesota

Alec Gorjestani, M.Sc., showed an early interest in transportation innovation — as a teenager, he built a go-cart from a lawnmower engine. Years later, he's moved beyond backyard DIY projects. Gorjestani's problem-solving skills...

Drug Combination of Antacid and H2 Antagonist

Brigham & Women's Hospital

Heartburn is a prevailing condition for many Americans that can lead to gastro reflux disease, scarring of the esophagus, painful or difficult swallowing, and precancerous lesions. More than 60 million Americans have heartburn at least once a mont...

Drug Technology Targets Alzheimer’s Disease

Tel Aviv University

Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder that is increasing at alarming rates around the world. The Alzheimer’s Association estimates that by 2050 nearly 12 million Americans and 45 million people worldwide will ...

Intoxication Tests Help Keep Roads Safe

Indiana University

Indiana University Professor Rolla Hager, M.D., introduced the Drunkometer in 1938, marking the beginning of a long, fruitful relationship between the university and the fight against drunk driving. Patented in 1936, the Drunkometer was the first ...

Desired Sensation Level Software Gives Infants, Children Gift of Hearing, Again

University of Western Ontario

For nearly 15 years, Desired Sensation Level (DSL) software has helped clinicians around the world provide infants and children with the gift of hearing.   DSL was originally designed for use in children’s hearing aids but has been u...

The Dual Lumen Cannula: UCLA’s Lifesaving Heart-Lung Technology

University of California, Los Angeles

After contracting COVID-19, a 27-year-old patient needed a lung transplant – his lungs were failing. The patient was transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to receive treatment using the Dual Lumen Cannula®. Four...

DYNA6.1 Software Helps Design Foundations That Can Withstand Catastrophic Events

University of Western Ontario

DYNA6.1 is used worldwide for the design of foundations subjected to dynamic loads, such as those under large factory equipment or buildings susceptible to earthquakes.   The highly versatile software program has been used to formulate fou...

Children with Dyslexia Overcoming Hurdles Thanks to Dytective

Carnegie Mellon University

Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects a person’s ability to read, write and spell; however, signs of dyslexia in children often go unnoticed by educators, parents or casual observers. As a result, dyslexia remains a formidab...

Labor of Love Helps Severely Disabled Communicate

Boston College

How can we tell if people with severe disabilities have an active mental life? That’s a question Jim Gips has grappled with for more than 20 years.

Composting Toilet Is Environmentally Friendly

University of Washington

Managing human and animal waste can be a big problem in remote, rural, or environmentally-sensitive areas. But University of Washington-Bothell professor Chuck Henry, Ph.D., has taken a big step toward managing this challenge by inventing an inexp...

LBNL Tech Removes Arsenic and Excess Fluoride, Providing Safe Drinking Water in India

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dangerous arsenic and flouride are present in high levels in groundwater across India, making safe drinking water a major challenge. Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed two technologies to combat these threats.

Software Program Gets to the Heart of Electrocardiogram (ECG) Results

University of Glasgow

Back in the late 1960s, a University of Glasgow professor sat down with a piece of blank paper and a pencil to begin developing software for electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis. “No equipment whatsoever,” chuckles Peter Macfarlane, who st...

Affordable, Green Buildings Hit Home for Students and the Community

University of Virginia

University of Virginia Patent Foundation

For most of its 50-plus year history in the United States, the prefabricated or prefab home has been the ugly stepsister of the housing industry, disparaged for substandard quality and lack of design aesthetic. But a confluence of factors — ...

Low-Frequency Vibration Device Provides Non-invasive, Mobile Therapy to Those in Need

National University of Science and Technology

According to the World Health Organization, more than 1 billion people throughout the world are affected by some type of neurological disease. Nearly 7 million people die every year as the result of a neurological disorder. A team of biomedical ...

Recycle and Reuse…with Electrochemistry: Electrifying the Chemical Decomposition of Plastic 

University of Colorado Boulder

Polyethylene terephthalate, known as PET, is a common plastic found in water bottles, blister packs and even polyester fabric. Although recycling initiatives have increased, plastic waste remains a worldwide problem, as most waste ends up in landf...

Electronic Pill Crusher Improves the Task

British Columbia Inst of Tech (BCIT)

The health care environment is often a hectic, fast-paced, and sometimes hazardous workplace for nurses and other providers. One of those hazards is the risk of developing painful and often debilitating carpel tunnel syndrome from repeatedly grind...

Electrostatic Sprayers Find New Use During Pandemic

As the world began to reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists looked for ways to limit the spread of germs on high-touch surfaces. They had to look no further than their garden sheds, where a common pesticide sprayer, once used to keep the...

Gene Therapy from Nationwide Children’s Hospital is First to Receive FDA Approval for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Nationwide Children’s Hospital

In children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a gene mutation causes progressive weakness and damage to muscles—including muscles responsible for heart function and breathing—that lead to death in early adulthood. Now children wi...

The Tell-Tale Heart: Emory's Cardiac Toolbox

Emory University

A three-dimensional image of a beating heart rotates on the computer monitor in Ernest Garcia's first-floor office at Emory Hospital. On another screen, color-coded virtual "slices" of the heart show the distribution of blood flow wh...

Software Helps Professionals Design Highly Energy-Efficient Buildings

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

In the 1990s the federal government was eager to replace its outdated software for calculating heating and cooling loads in the buildings it constructed. The U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, the Department of Energy’s ...

Hearth Health: Cooking up a Safer Way to Prepare Meals

Colorado State University

Every day, millions of people around the world engage in an essential task: preparing meals for themselves and their families. It’s a life-sustaining endeavor, but cooking can also pose life-threatening problems. That’s because ne...

Enzyme Therapy Fights the Rare and Often-Deadly Pompe Disease

Erasmus University

MyozymeTM  is the first medicine produced for Pompe disease and the first ever treatment for an inherited muscle disorder. Pompe disease is a rare genetic disorder, which can affect infants, children, and adults; only about 5,000 to 10,000 pe...

Electronic Glasses Bring Sight to Low Vision and Legally Blind

University of Arizona

Research developed at the University of Arizona (UA) has led to the eSight 3, electronic glasses that help the blind see.

Biomarkers and Balloons Help in the Fight Against Esophageal Cancer

Case Western Reserve University

Esophageal cancer is the fastest growing cause of death from solid cancers, primarily because it is hard to detect early enough to be cured. Two new testing methods developed at Case Western Reserve University have the potential to save thousands ...

TyraTech: Bringing "Green Pesticides" to the World Marketplace

University of California, Davis (UC Davis)

Vanderbilt University

One day in the early 1990s, it was business as usual for Essam Enan, Ph.D. Enan was performing cancer related research on essential plant oils in his laboratory at the University of California, Davis, where he was working as a research professor. ...

Etanercept Helps Those Suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis

Massachusetts General Hospital

Rheumatoid arthritis is a debilitating illness that affects nearly two million people in the U.S. alone, mostly women. While its cause is unknown, rheumatoid arthritis causes chronic joint inflammation and potentially can lead to joint destruction...

eTriage® Helps Emergency Rooms Prioritize Patient Care

University of Alberta

The eTRIAGE® technology, developed in 2002 by a research team led by Michael Bullard, M.D., at the University of Alberta, is improving triage efficiency in emergency rooms across North America. Triage methods prioritize a patient’s need ...

UWA Drug Treatment Offers Hope for Young Sufferers of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

University of Western Australia

University of Western Australia’s Centre for Neuromuscular and Neurological Disorders

Western Australian Neuroscience Research Institute

Some 20,000 chlidren are diagnosed each year with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal muscle wasting disease, which is caused by errors in their dystrophin gene. Affected children are usually confined to a wheelchair by the age of 12 and succumb ...

Discovery of a Fundamental Lung Function Leads to Higher Survival Rates for Premature Infants

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

A University of California, San Francisco professor dedicated his career to studying how lungs work, then created a treatment that helps babies suffering from respiratory distress syndrome breathe. The result is a dramatic decline in infant mortal...

Library Management Software Streamlines Day-to-Day Operations

Clemson University

Library operations are complex and include production processing setup, expediting resource requests, scheduling operator activities, supporting unattended operations and dealing with processing delays. To streamline these operations, Clemson Univ...

Extraction Technology Allows Researchers to Identify Genetic Information from Preserved Tissue

University of Southern California

Until an innovative extraction technology was invented at the University of Southern California, it was impossible to extract meaningful genetic information from diagnostic specimens fixed and stored in paraffin. Ribonucleic acid (RNA), a molecule...

EZ-IO: Using the Bone When the Veins Won't Do

University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

More than six million emergency room patients annually cannot have intravenous (IV) therapy started successfully when they need it. In situations in which the patients’ veins collapse due to shock, low blood pressure, cardiac arrest or other...

Discovery Leads to the Development of a Treatment for Acquired Hemophilia A

Emory University

A serendipitous discovery leads to the development of a treatment for acquired hemophilia A.

For Amber Waves of Grain: High-Yield Wheat Stretches Around the World

North Dakota State University

North Dakota State University Research Foundation

Developing a new variety of wheat takes time — as much as 10 years. So James Faller, a research specialist who worked in the hard red spring wheat breeding program at North Dakota State University (NDSU) for more than 30 years, knew it might...

Farecast: The First and Only Airfare Prediction Web Site

University of Washington

A University of Washington professor developed Farecast.com, a Web site that helps travelers save money by forecasting the best time to buy airline tickets for the best prices. Oren Etzioni doesn’t believe in getting mad. But making sure he ...

Innovative Resuscitation System Saves Lives in Critical Patient Care

British Columbia Inst of Tech (BCIT)

Seconds can mean the difference between life and death in medical emergencies. Trauma patients in car accidents, life-threatening situations at home, on battlefields, or on ambulance crash carts and in hospitals, need life-saving medicine and flui...

Glass Fiber Reinforcement Provides Dental Material Strength and Flexibility

University of Connecticut

Two researchers at the University of Connecticut Health Center create a new dental composite named FibreKor® with the strength characteristics of a stealth bomber’s surface, and aesthetic characteristics that please dentists and patients...

As Fire Seasons Stretch Longer and Hotter, a University of Nebraska–Lincoln Start-up is Using Drones to Fight Fire With Fire

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Drone Amplified is headed by Carrick Detweiler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor of computer science and engineering. The company’s drone-mounted technology carries chemical spheres the size of ping pong balls. At the press...

University of Buffalo Pill Crusher Makes Medicine Easier to Swallow

University of Buffalo

Have you ever had to manually crush a pill for a child, an elderly person or one of the millions of Americans with documented swallowing difficulties (dysphagia)? Perhaps you have had to crush medication for yourself because the large pill size wo...

Vaccine Developed to Shield Newborn Calves from Deadly Rotavirus

Baylor College of Medicine

The Ohio State University

After more than 20 years of basic research on the structure and biology of rotavirus, Dr. Mary Estes’ and colleagues in her lab at Baylor College of Medicine and The Ohio State University, have contributed to the development of a vaccine tha...

One Robot Could Transform the Lives of People with Disabilities Across the World

Staffordshire University

Even the most basic tasks such as shaving, cooking or cleaning can be a struggle if you are disabled or elderly, forcing you to rely on others just to get through life’s daily chores. But a robotic caterpillar developed by scientists at Staf...

Florida Pearl Captivates Consumers

University of Florida

Florida farmers are growing a new white variety strawberry, branded Florida Pearl and have taken consumers and the internet by storm due to its unique color and taste. Although the fruit looks a little like the traditional, red strawberry, there a...

Flowmi Cell Strainers

St Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is known for performing groundbreaking and life changing research; and the Office of Technology Licensing endeavors to facilitate the development of innovations originating during this research into prod...

Ending the Contamination of Public Watersheds

The largest environmental contaminant cleanup of the 21st century is underway to clean toxic "forever chemicals" known as PFAS from the global environment. Aquagga, Inc. is leveraging their expertise as scientists and entrepreneurs to ad...

FluMist Reshapes the Fight Against Flu

St Louis University School of Medicine

University of Michigan

FluMist, which has been available in the United States since 2003, is a trailblazer in the annals of flu prevention. The research behind its innovation spanned seven presidencies, but for millions of people nationwide, was well worth the wait.

Fluorescent proteins: Aequorin and Luciferase

University of Georgia Research Foundation

Bioluminescent animals possess special enzymes, pigments and other compounds that, when present in sufficient concentrations, can produce flashes of dazzling blue and green light that they use to communicate, attract mates, distract predators or l...

Fluxless Soldering Method Eliminates Expensive, Environmentally Hazardous Cleaning

University of North Carolina Charlotte

In most soldering methods, the first step involves pre-cleaning and deoxidation of surface oxides, usually involving a liquid flux material. While this method gets the job done, fusing of traditional lead-tin solders leaves flux residue that has t...

Natural Folates Help Battle Major Diseases

University of South Alabama

Although for many years folate has been used to treat anemia and prevent birth defects, it is now clear that deficiency in this critical vitamin is also related to the risk of colon cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and vascular diseases. Folate c...

Clean Eating A Possibility With Food Sterilization System

Washington State University Office of Commercialization

After decades of food trends and practices have made the American diet less nutritious and overly dependent on processed foods, a refreshing new movement is afoot: clean eating.  Consumers are increasingly looking for ways to eat clean by inc...

FreezePruf Offers Protection for Crops Threatened by Falling Temperatures

University of Alabama

When freezing temperatures hit Florida with unexpected strength in early 2010, they wiped out 30 percent of some growers’ citrus crops, killed 70 percent of tomatoes in southwest Florida and wreaked havoc on crops ranging from sweet cor...

A Unique Video-Based Approach Makes French Easier

Yale University

In an effort to break away from traditional “classroom French,” Yale University language professor and researcher Pierre Capretz created “French in Action,” a video-based curriculum that teaches French syntax, vocabulary and culture.

FSU SmartCard Technology Leads the Way

Florida State University

At Florida State University (FSU) one card does it all! This city-size university, with a student population of 29,000, added functionality to their student ID cards and paved the way for the SmartCard technology on university campuses across the ...

Stanford and Columbia Researchers Pioneer Antibody Production Methods

Stanford University

Monoclonal antibodies play a key role in diagnosing and treating various diseases. These man-made antibodies are derived from a single cell, and can be tailor-made to locate and attach themselves to specific substances, such as cancer cells, in th...

Case Western Reserve University Licenses Rapid Malaria, Hemoglobin Disorder Tests

The odds for the successful diagnosis and treatment of two devastating diseases – malaria and sickle cell – will dramatically increase with Hemex Health’s inexpensive, portable, and easy-to-use Gazelle diagnostic device. The devi...

Altered Yeast Strains Hold the Promise of Expanded Biofuel Supplies

Indiana University

Indiana University Research and Technology Corp.

Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about yeast, but in fact, it plays extremely important roles in our lives. A singlecelled fungi with hundreds of variations, it digests sugars in plant materials, in the process leavening flours...

Tailoring Apple Cultivation with Precision - A Global Economic Safeguard

Cornell

As consumers stroll through the aisles of their local grocery store, plucking their favorite fresh apples from the shelves, they may not realize the profound innovation that underpins the root system for the apple trees that bear these fruits. The...

Working for a Good Clause: Canadian University Negotiates Global Access Licensing Deal for a Drug Reformulation That Could Save Thousands of Lives

University of British Columbia

Whenever Mommy and Daddy start talking about work, 6-year-old John Paul Wasan is quick to quip, “Oh, no! Not that science thing again!” But the tedious dinner conversation that Ellen and Kishor Wasan’s son is so eager to change i...

Global Swine Disease Vaccine Will Save Millions of Animals

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Post-weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) has been a major threat to the global swine industry for more than a decade, especially in Europe and Asia. Porcine Circovirus Type 2 (PCV2) disrupts the immune system in pigs and severely constr...

Universities in the U.S. and the Netherlands Team up to Feed the World

University of Nebraska

How do you feed a growing population while protecting the environment? Using global data, University of Nebraska-Lincoln agronomist Patricio Grassini is helping agricultural stakeholders find common ground through the development of an online plat...

Tiny Monitor Gives Diabetics Frequent, Automatic Readings

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

The first non-invasive continuous monitoring device, pioneered at the University of California, San Francisco, helps patients better manage diabetes. In 2002, many people with type 1 diabetes rejoiced when they learned that a new technology offere...

UCF’s Low-Impact “Dirt” Technology is a Safer, Cheaper Way to Clean Water

It may look like dirt and feel like dirt, but the Bold & Gold® (B&G) technology from the University of Central Florida (UCF) is far from “just dirt.” B&G safely removes harmful nutrients and pathogens from our most valu...

Taking a Chance on Google

Stanford University

After Google incorporated in 1998, Stanford licensed the PageRank algorithm to the new start-up. In just two years, Google became the world’s largest search engine, with more than 1 billion webpage addresses in its index.
 

Identifying Safer, More Effective Molecular Drug Candidates

McGill University

Université de Montréal

Université de Sherbrooke

In both the human body and the field of molecular pharmacology, proteins known as G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are superstars. When naturally occurring molecules (called ligands) bind to GPCRs, the complex hubs prompt much of the cellular...

Converting Mango Waste Into Valuable Products

University of San Carlos

Every day, thousands of tons of mango peels and seeds headed to open dumpsites in Evelyn Taboada’s home province of Cebu in the Philippines. And she knew it. Left to rot, the mango waste piled high in dumpsites released foul odors and attrac...

Green Steel Gets the Lead Out

University of Pittsburgh

Two professors at the University of Pittsburgh discovered a better alternative to the millions of tons of lead-containing steel produced worldwide every year. They found that tin can perform the same function as lead. Just as lead has been removed...

Nebraska Turfgrass Tech Means the Grass is Always Greener

NUtech Ventures

It’s usually the last thing on golfers’ minds as they putt: the turf itself. A new software application helps keep turfgrass up to par.

Groovy Drum Skimmer Improves Oil-Spill Recovery Rates

University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara)

Oil-recovery methods from oil spills have essentially stayed the same for decades. A rotating drum with an oil-adhering surface called a “drum skimmer” turns in the contaminated water, removing oil that is then scraped into a collector...

Decision-Planning Technology Generates More Efficient, Higher Quality Meetings

University of Arizona

Some of the most important work that people do — brainstorming, strategic planning, problem solving, organizing and information gathering — occurs during group meetings. With that idea in mind, Jay Nunamaker, Ph.D., Regents Professor a...

Detachable Coils Defeat Brain Aneurysms With Skill and Ingenuity

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Brain aneurysms are usually symptom free while they are developing but are devastating when they finally make their presence known. Most of these bulges in the arteries of the brain remain undetected until they’ve swollen to the point of bur...

Turning Quitters Into Winners: the Nicotine Patch Success Story

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

A casual conversation between two brothers in the early 1980s leads to the research and development of the Habitrol® nicotine patch, which has helped thousands kick the smoking habit each year. When Jed Rose, Ph.D., gave his brother a ride to ...

Giving a Hand to Vision Tests

Emory University

As a teacher for visually impaired students, Cindy Lou Harrington found that she didn’t always trust the results that came back from her students’ vision tests. “I had kids who didn’t speak English, or had cerebral palsy or...

Harnessing Patient’s Immune System to Fight Cancer

St Jude Children's Research Hospital

For patients with leukemia or lymphoma, today’s treatments can fall short. If a patient’s cancer recurs, sometimes It can be more aggressive and more difficult to treat. Even when treatments are successful, therapies often have dangero...

Heart-Healthy Buttery Spread

Brandeis University

Diets high in the wrong kinds of  fats, especially trans fats, can lead to serious health problems such as high LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Now researchers at Brandeis University in Waltha...

Hemophilia B Treated with Gene Therapy Vector from St. Jude

St Jude Children's Research Hospital

Hemophilia B, a disease in which the patient’s blood fails to clot properly, affects about one in 30,000 individuals, mainly males. It is caused by a mutation in the gene coding for Factor IX (FIX), a factor involved in blood clotting. Peopl...

Chronic Hepatitis B: Battling a Global Killer With a New Drug

Emory University

Hepatitis B, a virus that inflames the liver, is one of the top ten killers worldwide. Globally, about 350 million people, about 5 percent of the world's population, are chronic carriers, and thousands die each year from complications of chron...

Breeding Selection Technology Allows Dairy Farmers to Raise Healthier Herds

University of Guelph

The rate of disease in the global dairy population has increased each year since 1996. The selection of low heritability traits, which does not directly measure an animal's ability to resist diseases, has not provided a significant change in t...

Berkeley Lab and Symyx Technologies: A Winning Combination

Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab

With its unique approach to materials identification and analysis, Symyx Technologies is helping  powerhouse companies worldwide blaze new trails  in the realm of research and development. Take one brilliant idea, a supportive national l...

Green Power for the Planet's Biggest Polluters

University of British Columbia

Westport Innovations, a small company in Vancouver, British Columbia, is driving a change in the way the world powers its buses and trucks, which are a major source of urban air pollution and greenhouse gases in industrialized areas around the glo...

Rapid Screening Fits Patients for New HIV-fighting Drugs

New York State Department of Health

A new diagnostic assay developed by the New York State Department of Health and Health Research allows physicians to quickly screen potential candidates for a new class of HIV drugs. The technology was developed at the Wadsworth Center of the New ...

Holographic images of the body ideal for security, fashion

Pacific Northwest Natl Lab

With airline security in mind, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a federal research facility in Richland, Wash., developed its Millimeter Wave Holographic Body Scanner technology in the late 1980s. Researchers Doug McMakin, Tom Hall, J...

Honeycrisp: The Apple of Minnesota’s Eye

University of Minnesota

The Honeycrisp apple has brought much-needed revenue to small family-run orchards in the upper Midwest and New York state, and today sells at a premium price because of a sweet-tart flavor and firm texture that appeals.

HPV Vaccine: Global Effort Defeats Cancer-Causing Virus

Georgetown University

German Cancer Research Ctr (DKFZ)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

University of Queensland, Australia

University of Rochester Medical Center

The world’s first vaccine against human papilloma viruses (HPV) is also the world’s first vaccine developed to specifically combat cancer. The vaccine is widely known for its effectiveness against precursors of cervical cancer in women.

University at Albany Creates Living Duplicate of Eye Tissue

University of Albany

With the costs of developing a new drug or medical device now averaging more than $2.5 billion, companies large and small are constantly looking to embrace concepts that shorten the timelines, reduce risk, conserve resources and save money for bot...

Promising Hydrogen Sensor Technology

Niigata University

Some of the best inventions are the ones that are the least expected. Just ask Shuji Harada, Ph.D., a professor in the Institute of Science and Technology at Niigata University in Niigata, Japan. Harada has focused much of his research on metal-hy...

HyGreen

University of Florida

Alcholo Sniffer Gives Hospitals a Hand Tackling Super Bug InfectionsAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), health care-associated infections (HAIs) are the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. This despit...

Cell Sample Testing 30 Times Faster with Flow Cytometer System

University of New Mexico

Flow cytometers can examine cells by using a laser to measure molecular biomarkers in each cell. Standard flow cytometers rely on a manual sample feed, where technicians place individual samples into the flow cytometers one at a time. This process...

HyRed Gives Cranberry Growers a Competitive Edge

University of Wisconsin Madison

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)

Color and yield are everything if you’re a cranberry farmer. Traditionally, farmers have relied on the deep red pigment of ripe cranberries to signal that it was time for harvesting. But in cold weather states like Wisconsin, the world&rsquo...

Inspired by His Son, Boston University Professor Invents Bionic Pancreas to Manage Type 1 Diabetes

Boston University

The mental math of monitoring one’s blood sugar can be exhausting, as anyone who lives with type 1 diabetes knows. How do I compensate for the cookie in the breakroom? What if I take an extra-long hike today? Do I have supplies ready if my b...

ILLiad Makes Interlibrary Operations More Efficient

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

The interlibrary borrowing process became less labor-intensive and more customer friendly thanks to Virginia Tech's development of ILLiad, a groundbreaking interlibrary loan automation software system. ILLiad, an acronym for InterLibrary Loan ...

Researchers Revolutionize Soft Tissue Surgery

Vanderbilt University

For more than a decade, image-guided technology has been used successfully for brain, skull, spine and joint surgery. These rigid anatomy applications have helped surgeons do more complicated procedures. Research led by Bob Galloway, M.D., of Vand...

Implanted Medical Device Relieves the Pain of Spinal Stenosis

Yale University

Over 500,000 older Americans suffer from lumbar spinal stenosis. Progressive degeneration of the skeletal structure in the lumbar area (lower back) with aging can create a narrowing of the spinal canal, or spinal stenosis. This condition compresse...

Helping Those With Spinal Injury Stand, Walk Again

Parker Hannifin Corporation

Vanderbilt University

The dream of regaining the ability to stand up and walk has come closer to reality for people paralyzed below the waist who thought they would never take another step. A team of engineers at Vanderbilt University’s Center for Intel...

Partnership Results in Advanced Energy Solutions

Los Alamos National Laboratory

It’s been the dream of researchers for years — to revolutionize the development of energy resources. Consider that in the last 125 years, according to Cambridge Energy Research Associates, the world has used one trillion barrels of oil...

Inflatable Design Could Make Solar Energy More Affordable

Florida State University

In 1973, Ian Winger experienced a harsh reality that would stick with him for the next 40 years. He had just graduated from high school and was starting to enjoy the freedom of owning a car. But that year, a stumbling block wedged itself between W...

Scanning for Survival: Portable Head Scanner Makes Time-Critical Injury Diagnosis Possible

Baylor College of Medicine

Drexel University

Infrascan

University of Pennsylvania

About 25 years ago, Alok Sharma, M.D., watched an episode of the “Star Trek” science fiction television series that featured a USS Enterprise crew member having his injured head examined with a hand-held device. Sharma thought this con...

Web Site Provides Instant Access to Available Emergency Housing

Florida State University

Finding temporary shelter quickly after losing a home in a natural disaster such as a hurricane, earthquake, or forest fire is one of the most stressful challenges anyone can face. A new online resource created by faculty at Florida State Universi...

InstaTrak Helps Doctors Operate in Confined Spaces

Boston University/Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital deliver an electromagnetic, three-dimensional surgery system that provides real-time images to surgeons performing sensitive surgical procedures. Fresh out of Boston University Medical schoo...

Wireless, Mobile Access to Medical Data Means the Doctor Is Always In

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Doctors are expected to respond quickly and appropriately as their patients’ medical needs dictate. In an ideal world, physicians would have access to all medical data for a patient at their fingertips, but in the real world information must...

IntegritE-DNA Environmental Test Protects At-Risk Species and Their Environment

University of Victoria

Biological impact assessments, biodiversity monitoring, and species inventories play an integral role in environmental risk, conducted to discover the impact of a new development on the surrounding ecological area; and remediation assessments, con...

Intravenous Catheter Design Eliminates Risk of Potentially Dangerous Needlesticks

City of Hope Natl Med Ctr

Health care workers who suffer accidental needlestick injuries are at significant risk of contracting life-threatening diseases including hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV-AIDS. It has been estimated that 600,000 to 800,000 needlesticks and other s...

A Seasoned Discovery Helps Keep Crops Fresh and "Unweathered"

North Carolina State University

Contrary to the image of scientists having sudden, stunning insights that abruptly change the world, most scientific advances occur in progressive steps over time, one stage building on another through years of systematic research. A case in point...

IRENE Restores Sound from Old or Damaged Recordings

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Recorded media is constantly evolving; what was once state-of the-art is now ancient technology. Media such as wax and plastic cylinders, vinyl discs, and acetate sheets that are more than 100 years old, are usually damaged by scratches or mold, o...

Computer Scientists Create New Routing Software for Web-based Companies

Boston University

Large Internet sites tend to require a cluster of expensive equipment to handle customer queries. Typically a customized centralized router — a computer networking device that forwards data across a network toward its destinations — is...

Researchers Help Make Cellular Therapies a Reality

Johns Hopkins University

For many years, some cancer patients have received an aggressive treatment using state-of-the-art stem cell transplantation techniques developed from monoclonal antibody technology pioneered at The Johns Hopkins University. And in the future, as a...

World’s Smallest Medical Implant Delivers Big Results

University of California Irvine

More than 3 million Americans suffer from glaucoma, a disease that blocks the eyes’ drains, causing fluid to build up and increase pressure in the eye, potentially damaging the optic nerve. The result is eye pain and vision loss, which make ...

Intravenous Busulfan Offers Hope to Leukemia Patients

University of Texas

Back in 1990, Borje S. Andersson, M.D, Ph.D., recognized that lethal liver failure in one of every four to five patients undergoing stem cell transplantation for leukemia was unacceptable. He traced this to the unpredictable effect of high-dose bu...

Jersey Giant Hybrid Proves Bigger is Better

Rutgers University

Researchers at Rutgers University made a major breakthrough for asparagus production when they developed Jersey Giant — the first all-male asparagus hybrid. Asparagus is dioecious, which means a plant is either male or female. Because male p...

Using Transgenic Chickens to Treat Rare Human Diseases

University of Georgia

Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (LAL Deficiency) is a rare disease affecting an enzyme, lysosomal acid lipase, which is responsible for breaking down fat, including cholesterol, within the body. LAL Deficiency can be devastating considering it is...

Precision Engineered Device Relieves Pressure for Glaucoma Patients

University of Colorado Anschutz

More than three million people in the United States, and 60 million people globally, are affected by glaucoma. In 2012 Dr. Malik Kahook set out to create a surgical tool, the Kahook Dual Blade (KDB), to help ophthalmologists treat patients that su...

Kepivance Improves Quality of Life for Cancer Patients

National Cancer Institute

Chemotherapy and radiation are widely accepted treatments for many forms of cancers. Although they can be highly effective in eliminating or shrinking tumors, they often have serious side effects that destroy normal tissues. One of the most painfu...

KineMed Offers Kinetic View of the Body

University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

KineMed is a drug development company built upon a new way of seeing the inner workings of the human body and thus predicting clinical outcomes. KineMed intends to change the way the world sees health and disease. The biotechnology company, based ...

Device Helps Knee-Pain Sufferers Get Back on Their Feet

Ecole de Technologie Superieure

Most drivers hate red lights. But motorists with knee pain might want to reconsider. Thanks to a chance meeting at a stoplight, patients can now get more accurate diagnosis and treatment for their conditions. The key is a motion-capture-and-analys...

Innovative Computer Tool Helps Hearing Impaired ‘Train’ at Home

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

The aging of the baby boomer generation is stimulating innovation in many areas of technology important for seniors. Hearing loss is an especially common experience as humans age, and an estimated 28 million Americans currently suffer some degree ...

Large-area Graphene Fabrication Method

Grolltex and Graduate student at UC San Diego

Univ. California

University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego)

Graphene is pure carbon in the form of a very thin, nearly transparent sheet, one atom thick. It is remarkably strong for its very low weight (100 times stronger than steel) and it conducts heat and electricity with great efficiency. Graphene rese...

Rapid, Cost-Effective Diagnostic System Based on Innovative Nano Biosensors Helps Identify and Slow Spread of Major Diseases

Indiana University

Indiana University Research and Technology Corp.

Throughout history, human migration has contributed greatly to the spread of infectious diseases. Trade caravans, religious pilgrimages and military maneuvers spread many diseases such as influenza, plague and smallpox. Today, epidemics continue a...