Scripps Health announced today that it has been awarded a $3.75 million grant from the Qualcomm Foundation, to be used for the Scripps Translational Science Institute, which was established by Scripps Health in collaboration with various parties to support the development of breakthrough digital technologies designed to revolutionize the practice of medicine.
An interdisciplinary team of Stony Brook University researchers have been selected to receive a three year National Science Foundation (NSF) award for the development of a personalized asthma monitor that uses nanotechnology to detect known airway inflammation biomarkers in the breath. The project, “Personalized Asthma Monitor Detecting Nitric Oxide in Breath,” comes with a $599,763 award funded through August 31, 2015.
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researchers have integrated computer-controlled piezoelectric motors to Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging technique as a distance sensor for optimizing the tip of a surgical tool.
Smiths Detection has unveiled a new manufacturing facility in Malaysia for X-ray baggage scanners. This new major plant will promote the sales expansion of its advanced screening systems in the rapidly-developing markets of south-east Asia, specifically for aviation security.
Masimo has declared that its rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximeters, Masimo Signal Extraction Technology (SET) pulse oximeters, and neonatal sensors with labeling for screening newborns has received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for critical congenital heart disease (CCHD).
EarlySense has declared the results of a post regulatory approval clinical and non-interventional prospective study that enables validating the efficacy of the EarlySense contact-free patient monitoring system for precisely detecting patient deterioration.
A research team headed by Vincent Rotello from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) has developed a nose-like sensor array system made of gold nanoparticles and proteins to detect a variety of cancer types in live tissues.
PartTec has licensed a neutron detector that has been created to foster studies based on drug discovery, materials technology and life science. The technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been promoted to the commercial markets by this radiation detection technologies manufacturer at Indiana.
The National Science Foundation declared that North Carolina State University will direct a national nanotechnology research initiative that focuses on developing self-powered health monitoring devices.
Implant Sciences, a high-tech provider of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, recently declared that its Quantum Sniffer QS-B220 desktop explosives and drugs trace detector has been delivered to a major European airport.
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