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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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The following description is for the MDDS (Micro Drug Delivery System) and does not require an IV connection to the patient. This MDDS pill is swallowed whole and excreted in the excrement.
A new family of Programmable Fans and Blowers which may be reprogrammed by the user to invoke various features, performance curves, thermal tracking and alarming. The fan/blower is sold as a standard feature product, pre-tested and environmentally encapsulated. A programming connector is accessible under a cover on the product.
Assembling an instant community using off-site construction can be daunting and expensive. Using standardized parts that can be packed flat and erected on site can immediately provide a living community.
These polygon structures can be trucked to a site stacked on top of each other as flat panels. Once deposited on the site,
In natural emergencies the impacted people are in dire need of water and sustenance. While international agencies and individuals are willing to help, there is usually a disruption of transportation systems. The most immediate way of delivering supplies is by air, dropping it over the devastated area.
To reduce the cost of patient care, a novel type of microprobe that measures the levels of drugs, hormones, or proteins in 1 drop sample of a biologic fluid has been designed. With this device physicians can diagnose various diseases, monitor progress of a therapy,
In order to ensure true freedom and independence all basic needs of humanity must be met with self sufficiency, and transportation is one of them. In order to make an electric aircraft not only technically viable but also economically viable it must be designed holistically with all variables considered interdependent.
This work presents the experimental performance analysis of a inclined solar still with baffles for fresh water production. Several researchers make many configurations in solar still for enhancing the fresh water production. On the economic aspect the solar still were costly so that it didn't reached the end users.
This work presents the experimental investigation of improved inclined solar still. Many researchers going for various configurations in-order to improve the efficiency and also for augmentation of fresh water from the solar still. An experimental investigation was carried out to see the performance of a improved inclined semicircular trough solar still.
Engine Health Monitor (EHM) refers to a device that, installed in the blow by line of a piston aircraft engine, monitors the gas flow that by passes the piston rings (Blow By - BBY). It is a totally passive system, with no moving parts and whose functioning principle is based on the Pitot tube. As such,
The Ram Accelerator, invented in 1983 at the University of Washington, is a novel mass driver consisting of a long straight tube filled with combustible gaseous mixtures such as hydrogen and oxygen. Upon ignition, an aeroshell “surfs the combustion wave” with sufficient velocity to exit the atmosphere. At velocities of ~3km/sec to 8km/sec, (1.86 to 4.97 miles per second),
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