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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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Today we are faced with Climate and Environment challenges. In the past few years I had seen on www.LinkedIn.com lots of issues on this topic.
Besides the further reduction of the harmful gaseous emissions (HC, CO and NOx) to meet stringent emission limits, the discussion on lowering the CO2 emissions is omnipresent. Various solid materials like calcium oxide, zeolite, hydrotalcite, and silicon carbide nanotubes readily adsorb carbon dioxide.
A configurable "key" for use with vehicles. The key would be based on a USB flash drive that could be configured by the owner of the vehicle. Any flash drive could be used and configured by the owner.
SP3H is a cleantech oriented company acting in the field of thermal engine efficiency. Our activity is based on engine green house gas and fuel consumption reduction.
Simple Urinary Catheterization Without The Mess!
The Problem:
The current catheterization procedure for a Mitrofanoff urostomy is to use a catheter and a syringe, emptying the bladder one syringeful at a time, uncoupling, emptying into a bowl, recoupling and drawing the next syringeful.
We propose here the application of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) as part of a science surface properties package aboard a future Lake Lander.
Recycling is the latest craze in the world so I decided to do my part by recycling cans and bottles.I hung a 30 gallon trash bag on a hook and started to fill it up,
Small, inexpensive, hand-held satellite terminals, similar to older cellphones (flip-phones) in size, configuration and cost, can bring literacy-training to all corners of the world. The devices would function in a text-only mode with twitter-like limitations on message-size and message-frequency.
The Birch Material Detector Locator (BMDL)™ is the answer to the growing problem of illegal and contraband explosives, bombs in most any facilities, government buildings and law enforcement agencies and schools. Like a handheld radar detector,
After a long and intense study on cancer incidence taking into account huge official statistic data and personal data, and over 40 years of research in development of an original mental test (HuPoTest), I established that cancer diseases are mainly driven by inter-human relationships in human communities.
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