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New Therapy Improves Blood Circulation for Peripheral Artery Disease

Bioengineers and physicians at the University of California, San Diego have developed a potential new therapy for critical limb ischemia, a condition that…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in thermal vacuum testing

NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is in thermal vacuum testing, designed to…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's first wide-field soft X-ray camera is a gift that keeps giving

NASA recently selected a miniaturized version of the original X-ray camera to fly as a CubeSat mission to study Earth's magnetic cusps – regions in the…

Life & Chemistry

Bird Communication: Discovering Syntax in Chirping

Language is one of the defining characteristics of human beings: It enables us to generate unlimited meanings from a finite number of phonetic elements. Using…

Event News

EEHE 2016: Smart Innovations for Electric Vehicle Efficiency

Ever stricter emissions requirements in the automotive sector are an imperative for OEMs to reassess energy saving potentials and to search for smart…

Information Technology

Amputee Discovers Texture Through Innovative Bionic Fingertip

An amputee was able to feel smoothness and roughness in real-time with an artificial fingertip that was surgically connected to nerves in his upper arm….

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Future of Northern Forests: Insights from Past Management

“This research is vital to everyone concerned about sustaining diverse, healthy, productive forests and the associated ecosystem services, commodities, and…

Machine Engineering

3D Printing and FRP: Enhancing Flexibility in Stressed Components

The Fraunhofer-Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen, in collaboration with its partners within various engineering groups, is currently…

Physics & Astronomy

Swiss Camera CaSSIS Set for Mars Launch on PROTON Rocket

CaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System) has been developed by a team led by the University of Bern. It is scheduled to be launched on a PROTON rocket…

Health & Medicine

Immune Factor Enables Chronic Viral Infections, Study Reveals

The HI virus triggers the immunodeficiency disease AIDS. The infection has a chronic course – the immune system is not able to get rid of the pathogen. This is…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Trees Twitter: Real-Time Climate Reports from European Forests

Forest on-line: European researchers enable trees to report real-time on how the changing climate is affecting them. Now vaporisation, water flows through the…

Life & Chemistry

Social Insects: All-Rounders vs. Specialists in Task Division

A characteristic of insect societies such as ants is the way tasks are distributed among group members. Not only queens and worker ants have clearly defined…

Technology Offerings

New Analogs of 14-MM Transform Pain Relief Solutions

The Invention describes novel analogues of 14-methoxymetopon(14-MM) a µpioid receptor (MOR) Ligand with a unique pharmacological Profile, for the Treatment of moderate-to-severe acute and chronoc pain.

Technology Offerings

New Kappa Opioid Receptor Ligands for Effective Therapies

The Invention describes a novel class of kappa Opioid receptor (KOR) ligands which can be used for the therapy of a variety of human disorders.

Technology Offerings

New Water-Soluble Intumescent Flame Retardants Innovate Safety

The present invention relates to new water soluble single source intumescent flame retardants. The commonly used retardants are often seen as a health concern and tend to falsify the natural look of wood.

Technology Offerings

Optimize Optical Encoder Readings With Angular Error Correction

The purely optical compensation of errors in encoder readings allows for robust sensor design with alignment-free assembly of the encoder disc. Due to a diffractive compensation track the beam spot on the measuring track can be compensated prior to sensor signal generation.

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