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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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In tune or not, we humans sing and hum; in time or not, we clap and sway; in step or not, we dance and bounce. The human brain is hard-wired to distinguish music from noise and to respond to rhythm and repetition, tones and tunes. This is not a biologic accident, and it serves a purpose. Hence,
Current wound care and treatments require the removal of dressings, resulting in further disruptions to the surgical site or wound bed that can lead to severe discomfort, compromised healing and other complications. New objective approaches for monitoring and treating wounds are needed to improve surgical outcome and wound healing for both military personnel and civilians. To address these needs,
Every year, wildfires destroy important ecosystems as well as valuable properties around the world. The cost of the damage caused by wildfires is estimated in the tens of billions of dollars every year, and the method used to put out these fires are very rudimentary; as they rely mostly on firefighters physical strength.
The H3Pelvic Device is a new non-pharmacological treatment solution that addresses the over 16 various ailments that cause pain deep and mind-bending "down there." These ailments affect in total over 78 million Americans every year and hundreds of millions worldwide.
The device uses active fluid pumping,
The proposed apparatus realizes inspection of optical members for cosmetic defects being surface flaws and inclusions. Plenitude of efforts is being made to develop methods and machinery for objective testing optical members prior to their utilization (e.g., patents: US 4,841,139; US 3,892,494; US 6,075,591; US 9,513,215; etc).
The $165bn pa memory market is dominated by DRAM ($100bn) and NAND flash ($60bn). DRAM’s high speed (compared to Flash) at low cost (compared to SRAM) has made it the main memory in all computers and electronic devices. However, it has significant drawbacks of volatility and destructive read of data.
CITS is an acronym from Crankcase Independent Two-Stroke. This patented technology retains the renown simplicity, low-maintenance, and superior weight and cost to power ratios of the two-stroke, and then eliminates their total-loss-lubrication and emissions burden. Another patented innovation is a pivoting low-resistance inlet-valve, with integrated By-Pass valve,
In the present day scenario, many times we see that the garbage bins or dust bin placed at public places in the cities are overflowing due to increase in the waste every day. It creates unhygienic condition for the people and creates bad smell around the surroundings this leads in spreading some deadly diseases & human illness,
A major portion of the demand on the electrical grid comes from the compressors and heat pumps that are used to provide air conditioning and refrigeration for industrial and commercial buildings. The peak demand often occurs on summer afternoons when direct sunlight is beating down on the roofs of our cities.
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