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Liver organoid breakthrough: Generating organ-specific blood vessels

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Major step forward in liver organoid technology could lead to new ways to help people living with hemophilia and other coagulation disorders while also taking another step closer to producing transplantable repair tissues for people with damaged livers.

Journal: Nature Biomedical Engineering
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Mitsubishi Foundation, Japan Science and Technology Agency

NAU researchers launch open-source robotic exoskeleton to help people walk

Northern Arizona University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Robotic exoskeletons are the future of helping people with certain disabilities perform daily tasks, but they can be prohibitively difficult and expensive to develop. Mechanical engineering associate professor Zach Lerner, whose research has focused on developing this technology, led a team that created OpenExo, an open-source exoskeleton framework, which will open doors for researchers globally to help speed up life-changing robotic discoveries.

Journal: Science Robotics
Funder: NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Science Foundation

Duffy, Wagoner awarded NCInnovation grants

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Liam Duffy (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Dr. Kaira Wagoner (Biology) were each awarded new R&D grants from NCInnovation, a public-private partnership designed to accelerate and commercialize innovative research emerging from North Carolina's universities. Duffy will continue development of new instrument for analyzing chemical isomers, a process with application in a host of fields including pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. Wagoner will refine and optimize the UBeeO Assay, a technology she co-developed to measure and improve disease and pest-resistant behavior in honey bee colonies.

Funder: NCInnovation

Geneva becomes global hub for school connectivity with inauguration of Giga Connectivity Centre

International Telecommunication Union
Business Announcement

ITU-UNICEF initiative establishes new base for bringing every school online and promoting digital development

AI-assisted model enhances MRI heart scans

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An AI-assisted model developed by researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and the School of Engineering can take low-quality MRI heart scans and turn them into high quality images, while reducing the time needed to scan the heart by about 90%.

Journal: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Creation of new molecule could help develop stamp-sized hard drives capable of storing 100 times more data than current tech

Australian National University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chemists from The University of Manchester and The Australian National University (ANU) have engineered a new type of molecule that can store information at temperatures as cold as the dark side of the moon at night, with major implications for the future of data storage technologies.

The findings, published in Nature, could pave the way for next-generation hardware about the size of a postage stamp that can store 100 times more digital data than current technologies.

Journal: Nature
Funder: European Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the UK EPSRC, the Australian Government, Government of Western Australia

Control of spin qubits at near absolute zero a game changer for quantum computers

University of Sydney
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Advanced quantum technology needs integrated cryogenic control. Professor David Reilly and colleagues at the University of Sydney present in Nature a control platform that will allow the scale up of quantum tech to build useful machines. The platform can also be applied for use in data centres and other advanced electronics.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Microsoft, Australian Research Council, US Army Research Office, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Australian National Fabrication Facility