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Images have been transformed into pixels and projected onto a headset to help the visually impaired in everyday tasks such as navigation, route-planning and object finding. Developed using a video camera and mathematical algorithm, the researchers from the University of Southern California hope the pixels can provide more information and enhance the vision of patients already fitted with retinal implants. Lead author of the paper, James Weiland, said: "Blind people with retinal implants...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In an article written earlier this month for redOrbit, this writer highlighted work being done in the Nicolelis laboratory headed by professor of neurobiology Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University School of Medicine. His previous research reported on the ability to enable a rat to “touch” infrared light through the use of a cortical stimulation technique. For the second time this month, the Nicolelis team has released an equally...
LONDON, March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --CrayoNano AS will present at CleanEquity Monaco 2013 on March 7th & 8th at the Sporting d'Hiver, Monaco. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121119/CL15975LOGO ) CleanEquity Monaco is an annual invitation-only event hosted by Innovator Capital, the London based specialist cleantech investment bank. Other partners and sponsors include Prince Albert II of Monaco's Foundation, Covington & Burling, Qualcomm, MDB Capital, PR...
Cell Press Genetically modified (GM) crops have been a source of great controversy—particularly in Europe—but acts of vandalism and associated security costs have made scientific evidence about the health and ecological impacts of those crops hard to come by. A Swiss government-protected field site dedicated for use in GM crop studies could serve as an example to other European countries interested in pursuing crop biotechnology, according to an article published in Trends in...
Brown University A team of neuroengineers based at Brown University has developed a fully implantable and rechargeable wireless brain sensor capable of relaying real-time broadband signals from up to 100 neurons in freely moving subjects. Several copies of the novel low-power device, described in the Journal of Neural Engineering, have been performing well in animal models for more than year, a first in the brain-computer interface field. Brain-computer interfaces could help people with...
The origin of beta-cells, the insulin-producing cells in the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, has been controversial, and now new imaging and cell analysis technology shows that a recent study that seemed to have identified the progenitors of these important cells may have been in error, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. "This is a fundamental question for my field," said...
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: QTWW), a global leader in natural gas storage systems, integration and vehicle system technologies, today announced that it will showcase a new Power Solutions International (PSI) 8.8-Liter natural gas engine with Quantum's compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel system at the 2013 NTEA Work Truck Show on March 5th in Indianapolis. (Photo:...
Jethro is an innovative analytic DBMS built natively on Hadoop, combining real-time analytics with scalable data storage New York, New York (PRWEB) February 27, 2013 JethroData, a Hadoop analytic database company, announced today it has closed a $4.5 million round led by Pitango Venture Capital. Founded in 2012 by industry veterans Boaz Raufman, Ronen Ovadya and Eli Singer, JethroData revolutionizes the way companies make use of Big Data, by creating the first analytic database that runs...
[WATCH VIDEO: Video Comparing Imaging Systems] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A new technology developed by Italian researchers and published in the journal Optics Express could potentially give firefighters superhero-like ability. Scientists developed a new imaging technique with the potential to allow firefighters to see through flames to find people in need of rescue. The new technique uses infrared (IR) digital holography to look through chaotic...
LA JOLLA, Calif. and CORALVILLE, Iowa, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SGI-DNA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI), and Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (IDT), the world leader in custom oligonucleotide synthesis, today announced an expanded collaboration to develop, manufacture, and market a broad range of synthetic DNA products. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. SGI also announced the official launch of SGI-DNA, which is responsible for...
