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OssoVR Lets Surgical Training Continue Virtually Despite COVID Limitations
Over the past few months, medical student and resident training has been severely limited due to Covid-19. However, knowledge, coordination, dexterity, and experience may not have to suffer because of quarantine and social distancing...
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High-Resolution 3D Mouse Brain Map for Neuroscience Researchers
Semi-transparent top-down view of the average template, revealing many striking anatomical features. Credit: Allen Institute for Brain Science. Researchers at the Allen Institute in Seattle have created a 3D Mouse Brain Atlas, which functions...
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BioButton to Help Track COVID, Ensure Safe Return to Work
BioIntelliSense, a Silicon Valley company, is unveiling its FDA cleared BioButton device that may help with tracking symptoms of COVID-19 in potential patients and help society return to a normal state of affairs. The BioButton is about the...
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Flexible Throat Sensor Powered by AI to Track COVID-19 Symptoms
As COVID-19 continues to infect more people around the world, there are still few reliable ways to spot the early onset of the disease and to monitor its symptoms in detail, particularly at a distance and while patients are at home....
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Breathable, Stretchable Electronic Fabric for New Medical Wearables
Stretchable electronic technologies offer the potential to monitor the body over extended periods of time in unprecedented ways. The heart's rhythms, flexion of joints, and other biomedical parameters can be tracked with high fidelity and...
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3D Face Scans Accurately Screen for Sleep Apnea
Researchers at the University of Western Australia have demonstrated that facial features captured from 3D photographs may be useful as a screening tool for sleep apnea. 400 individuals participated in the study, and the researchers found that...
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MIT's Comfortable Shirts Loaded with Body Sensors
MIT engineers have developed a way of creating shirts and other clothing items that are embedded with tiny electronic sensors capable of measuring the heart and respiration rates, temperature, and movement. Other vital signs can be added by...
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Ambulnz’s Software Facilitates Timely Medical Transportation During COVID-19 Pandemic
Ambulnz is a non-emergency on-demand ambulance provider that is working to improve on traditional medical transportation through the implementation and integration of various technologies. The firm describes itself as a “software-enabled...
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Pandemic Drone to Detect People with Respiratory Conditions
Researchers at the University of South Australia are working to develop a drone that can spot people with potential respiratory infections, remotely. A wall-mounted AI device that listens for coughing and sneezing to predict and monitor...
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