Tech & Engineering
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25-Jun-2025
Liver organoid breakthrough: Generating organ-specific blood vessels
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CenterPeer-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.
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- Nature Biomedical Engineering
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- NIH/National Institutes of Health, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Mitsubishi Foundation, Japan Science and Technology Agency
25-Jun-2025
NAU researchers launch open-source robotic exoskeleton to help people walk
Northern Arizona UniversityPeer-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.
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- Science Robotics
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- NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Science Foundation
25-Jun-2025
Duffy, Wagoner awarded NCInnovation grants
University of North Carolina at GreensboroGrant 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.
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- NCInnovation
25-Jun-2025
Geneva becomes global hub for school connectivity with inauguration of Giga Connectivity Centre
International Telecommunication UnionBusiness Announcement
ITU-UNICEF initiative establishes new base for bringing every school online and promoting digital development
25-Jun-2025
AI-assisted model enhances MRI heart scans
University of Missouri-ColumbiaPeer-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%.
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- Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
25-Jun-2025
Control of spin qubits at near absolute zero a game changer for quantum computers
University of SydneyPeer-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.
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- Nature
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- Microsoft, Australian Research Council, US Army Research Office, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Australian National Fabrication Facility