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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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With all the new systems on the Space Center and other areas coming on line I feel this will be very useful. Most systems engineers and technicians use laptops or at least paperwork orders to operate, calibrate, and do maintenance on systems. Most often there is no surface to use the laptop or do paperwork.
Terabit analyses integrates several functionalities onto a single platform: sample preparation, nucleic acid amplification and pathogen detection. It incorporates many of the required components of a typical room-sized laboratory in a small, portable device that empowers producers to perform food safety testing in the field.
Early detection of incipient failure and excessive wear in knee implants is essential to avoid revision surgery and hence lower medical costs. Self-powered embedded implants sensors could provide a new in vivo capability to reduce these clinical complications. A feasibility study is conducted on a self-powered embedded sensor. 
The basic objective is to increase profitability of crop production, improve product quality, and protect the environment. The inability to obtain soil characteristics rapidly and inexpensively remains one of the biggest limitations of precision agriculture. This sensor is based on electrical conductivity and electrochemical measurement concepts.
Our solution is a portable genetic lab that fits in the pocket. Combines mobility, ease of use and speed of analysis with professional amplification and detection of specific DNA and RNA fragments, useful for pathogen or mutation detection.
Blackspot technology
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation 17% of all motor vehicle environmentally related crashes was caused by Glare or blindness from sunlight. Between 2005 and 2007 this accounted for more than 9000 crash accidents in US.
This invention seeks to reduce the risk of sun blindness in five steps.
Plastics are a real time problem in each and every country but if we look deep into it we can find that maximum plastics are recyclable. The problem lies in the logistics part where maximum plastics are unable to reach the recycling industries. R-cube is a idea where a virtual force will help in keeping the environment clean.
Sexual assault and violence is notoriously hard to quantify but it happens everywhere – in farm fields, on the night shift and in the military. And it happens more often than we might think. According to a new data analysis from researchers at the University of Michigan, by the time women are in their mid-40s,
Typical AR style rifles have a round or hexagon shaped tube that wraps around the barrel to protect the operator from the heat of the barrel during firing while simultaneously providing a location to mount additional accessories which facilitate the operation of the rifle such as lighting, aiming, etc. On most AR style rifle handguards,
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