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NIH proposes funding human / animal hybrid research
The US National Institute of Health (NIH) has set out proposals to end its imposed ban on the introduction of stem cells into animal embryos in medical research. In a blog published on Thursday 4...
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Five ways bioengineers want to use 3-D printing
Now that 3D printing has made it easier to generate custom-made prosthetics, bioengineers are looking ahead at manufacturing actual cellular material. Such technology could be the basis for...
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Startups get closer to helping us live longer
Kendall Square in Cambridge is said to be "the most innovative square mile" in the US WHOOP's activity tracker helps elite athletes perform at ultimate levels Moderna's technology would allow your...
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How 4 universities are using 3D printing to create ears, cartilage and blood...
3D bioprinting—the additive manufacturing of tissues and organs—may be years away from use in your average hospital. But, as more animal trials prove successful, demand for the promise of customizable...
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Dragonfly army drone could be developed if company wins Ministry of Defence...
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MIT’s DuoSkin turns temporary tattoos into on-skin interfaces
Your next tattoo could be functional as well as aesthetic. A new MIT Media Lab product called DuoSkin created in partnership with Microsoft Research turns temporary tattoos into connected interfaces,...
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Adidas will open an automated, robot-staffed factory next year
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Adidas announced on Wednesday that it will be opening a factory in Atlanta in 2017...
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The head of Google’s Brain team is more worried about the lack of diversity...
As some would have it, robots are poised to take over the world in about 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... But one machine-learning expert — who is, after all, in a position to know — thinks that’s not the biggest...
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IBM's New Artificial Neurons a Big Step Toward Powerful Brain-Like Computers
0 Thanks to a sleek new computer chip developed by IBM, we are one step closer to making computers work like the brain. The neuromorphic chip is made from a phase-change material commonly found in...
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A new method simplifies blood biomarker discovery and analysis
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in collaboration with Estonian Competence Centre on Health Technologies have developed a new gene expression analysis method to widen the usage of blood in biomarker...
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Designing our home service robot from the ground up
by Bernt Øivind Børnich, Phuong Nguyen Consumer & Household Learn August 15, 2016 Our robot, Eve, is built from the ground up using force-control, enabling human-like dexterity and efficiency. We’d...
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SRI Spin-off Abundant Robotics Developing Autonomous Apple Vacuum
As an apple fan (the delicious fruit, not the horrible-tasting technology company), I take it for granted that apples will be available to me at affordable prices whenever and wherever I want them....
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Build an electric go-kart on a budget with Arduino
Growing up, there was nothing cooler than hopping in a go-kart for a quick spin around the neighborhood. But you know what would make it even cooler? If you built your own electric set of wheels....
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We've Been Wrong About the Origins of Life for 90 Years
0 For nearly nine decades, science’s favorite explanation for the origin of life has been the “primordial soup.” This is the idea that life began from a series of chemical reactions in a warm pond on...
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Millions of Volkswagens Can Be Unlocked By Hackers
Millions of Volkswagen cars could in principle be unlocked from a distance by hackers, according to a new report. It’s one more strike against a German company that’s had more than its share of bad...
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Robot Octopus Points the Way to Soft Robotics With Eight Wiggly Arms
The sun was sparkling on the Mediterranean Sea on the afternoon when a graduate student from my lab tossed our prize robot into the water for the first time. I watched nervously as our electronic...
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and where they can’t (yet)
The technical potential for automation differs dramatically across sectors and activities. As automation technologies such as machine learning and robotics play an increasingly great role in everyday...
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Star Track
Star track is an Arduino based, GoTo-mount inspired star tracking system. It can point and track any object in the sky(Celestial coordinates of the object as input) with 2 Arduinos, a gyro,RTC...
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Authors retract study with contaminated cell lines
Authors of a molecular biology paper have pulled it after realizing that their cell lines were contaminated. According to the notice in Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), the contamination occurred...
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How to Prepare Your Workforce for Smart Manufacturing
The shop floor is rapidly changing as it evolves from a place bound by hands-on labor and interpersonal communication skills to an environment of smart machines that collect and analyze data, captured...
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