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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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For over a half-a-century, back surgeons have been cutting spinal disk cartilage and bone with Kerrison Rongeurs, whose original design for widening safely a cranial perforation was modified so that in spinal incisions, the tip could be introduced into ever-smaller spaces.
In such spaces where blood accumulates,
The earth's atmosphere is heavily polluted by greenhouse gases . Despite efforts to reduce air pollution, their concentration continues to increase. There are many types of purification plants. But their application to the extent sufficient to cleanse the entire earth's atmosphere,is economical disadvantageously. They require the cost of manufacturing ,
Composites prosthetics are defined by predefined stiffness of the material and the perception of the composite deformation for the same product is different from one person to another. For this reason, a inflatable composite cover is attached under the prosthetic foot .
Solar photovoltaic are gaining popularity in the age for sustainable clean renewable energy source grows louder. It is well known that Sun’s energy on earth is expressed as 1kw/ square meter at AM 1. Many PV technologies have been developed to convert this energy into electrical energy. The efficiency of conversion is around 12 to 14%.
There are several different ways a remotely (10’s of meters or 100’s of meters) located object can be detected, or the object’s presence can be ensured. Some of these are namely:
1. Sending ultrasonic sound and receiving the reflected sound from the object.
It is desirable to have free form cores for the sandwich panels. Unfortunately, industry could produce only flat cores, which required shaping to get a desired form.
I had to find out how to redesign of the sells of the cores to make it uniformly bendable, with bonded layers substantially unloaded from the tangential forces.
The basic concept is that after the potent Chinese medicine physician and/or acupuncturist well balanced a patient's body, body's internal environment does not fit diseases to exist instead of killing the virus, bacteria and cancer cells. The Chinese medicine is a crystal of humanity wisdom in the medical field with 250 million years development.
This energy system can be used to access an energy state and transfer a type of energy from one type of energy state to another type of energy state.
Smoothly interlock two independent power devices has been a challenge for mechanical designers. Toyota Prius with its synergy technology demonstrated a successful example. By using a planetary gear box, Prius is able to coordinate the interlocking between engine and motor smoothly, however a little heavy and expensive.
Tick-Search & Destroy solution.
As many owners of pets in the world know, Ticks are dangerous to us and our pets. We use different chemical or natural repellent to fight the danger.
In reality not many have worked so I thought instead of sitting and waiting,
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