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"When forced to work on a project with your nemesis, it's best to stick to the science. Further research could trigger explosive results. Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project--a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia--Marie would accept without...
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"A rock star academic explores the final frontier of personal privacy: your mind. Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, thought crimes are punishable by law, and your own feelings can be used against you. Where perfumers create customized fragrances to perfectly suit your emotions, and social media titans bypass your conscious mind to hook you to their products. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy...
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"When Elizabeth Lavenza enrolled at Ingold as its first female medical student, she knew she wouldn't have an easy time. From class demands to being an outsider among her male cohorts, she'll have to go above and beyond to prove herself. So when she stumbles across what appears to be a faulty Bio-Mechanical--one of the mechanized cadavers created to service the school--she jumps at the chance to fix it and get ahead in the program. Only this Bio-Mechanical...
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"Agatha DeLacey's family isn't rich or titled, so studying nursing at Ingold's East End hospital in London is a rare opportunity for her. Despite the school's focus on the innovative Bio-Mechanical program, Aggie cares more about the desperately poor human patients who flood the hospital, even if that means providing unauthorized treatment after-hours...and trusting a charming, endlessly resourceful thief. But the Artful Dodger is barely a step ahead...
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Researchers at Tyndall National Institute in Cork are part of a global network of scientists (which includes researchers from Harwell Oxford Campus in the UK and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) to develop future X-ray technology and pioneer the world’s smallest portable X-ray system. They’re developing a product that will be 20 times smaller and lighter than existing models, and in comparison to existing technology, these new...
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The first program looks at miniscule machines that may become part of human bodies: robots coursing through the blood stream to battle cancer cells one on one; virtual vision systems projected directly into the cerebral cortex; or computers designed to interface with nervous systems.
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The two inventions by Arminas Ragauskas and his colleagues at the Health Telematics Science Center at Kaunas University of Technology offer a safe and accurate method to non-invasively measure intra-cranial pressure and brain blood flow autoregulation, respectively, employing ultrasound waves instead of costly and potentially dangerous invasive surgery and implantation of invasive sensors into the brain. If left unchecked, the pressure can increase...
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Curosurf is a clinical treatment for pre-term infants – born before 37 weeks of gestational age – suffering from infant respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), a life-threatening condition of the lungs. Curosurf was developed by Tore Curstedt and Bengt Robertson. Curstedt’s solution relies on a phospholipid extract of natural porcine lungs with the chemical name poractant alfa. Administered through a breathing tube and inserted into the trachea,...
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The invention pioneered by U.S. biophysicist and rock climber Hugh Herr is an intelligent knee prosthesis system marketed as the Rheo Knee. A ground-breaking invention in the field of prosthetics, the Rheo Knee allows wearers to walk with a natural gait by using a microprocessor that automatically adapts the prosthesis to the stance and walking speed. The Rheo Knee takes prosthetic design into the realm of bionics – the intersection of medicine...
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The CARMAT heart is the world’s first fully implantable, self-regulating artificial heart. It was created by renowned French cardiologist Alain Carpentier who spent nearly two-and-a-half decades developing a mechanical pump that accurately replicates the contractions of a human heart. Unlike similar devices that simply maintain an unchanging rhythmic pulse, Carpentier’s device adjusts the volume of blood it pumps according to the needs of the...
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While visiting her father, a Yellowstone park ranger, Magnolia Stone uses the opportunity to test her botanical and wildlife knowledge in the park, while her friend Nate films footage for his conspiracy theory YouTube channel. A sudden earthquake separates them from Magnolia's family and the pair must team up to survive exposure, area wildlife, and the mysterious appearance of Komodo dragons in the area.
18) Breaking the Wall Between Mind and Machine: How Neurotechnology Can Expand Human Capacity for Action
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Man machines are no longer the property of science fiction - as brain-computer interfacing, or BCI, finds increasing application in real life. But how can we connect brain and computer so that there is a direct communications pathway between the two that can enable the remote control of computers and other devices? This 2009 Falling Walls lecture video explores how the sheer complexity of transmitted data poses enormous challenges for machine learning:...
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Helen Lee and her team at the Diagnostics Development Unit at University of Cambridge created the fundamental principle behind simple, rapid, point-of-care diagnostic tests for a range of different infectious diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis B, chlamydia, gonorrhoea or influenza. The rapid results of the test also solve the problem of patients being “lost to follow-up” – by showing up for tests, leaving, and not returning for diagnosis – which...
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The invention by American chemical engineer Robert Langer and team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge relies on delivering anti-cancer drugs in synthetic polymers to ensure their targeted delivery to target sites, such as tumor sites. Covering the highly potent pharmaceuticals in biodegradable plastics helps focus the drug’s effect where it is needed: directly at the tumour site. The drugs used in the invention include...