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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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This design is a ruggedized, secure computer cube called Lockbox™. It is able to securely store data as a desktop All-in-One as well as act as a network attached storage on both LAN and its own Wi-Fi. The current working design of Lockbox is a 6 inch cube,
The need to interest would-be students in the apparently complex subject of macroeconomics is considerably eased, when they can see and play with a mechanical model that represents the whole of our social system. This model, being presented here, comprises of a compound balancing machine,
FIG. 1 is an image displaying the basic layout of a modified cell saver configuration with a cleansing unit that functions in order to inactivate pathogens in plasma and white blood cells.
In today’s developing world scenario power generation is one of the major factors which helps in the development of a country. There are many different ways by which power can be produced. These methods include thermal power stations, nuclear power stations etc. But these are all non-renewable sources of energy. Power can also be obtained from renewable resources.
Our brain is propagated by our mind. Para-psychology says our mind has a super power to tell about the future. Everyone has this power. But everyone’s brain is unable to capture this kind of data from our mind. Our mind is an eternal energy which is generated by our brain’s electro-chemical functions.
Losing a removable lid to a container can be frustrating. Using a garbage can as an example, the lid can be thrown away with the garbage, blown away by the wind, carried away by a dog, and lost by countless other ways.
V-10 is a peptide-based material that has been developed through10+ years of research. It consists of a novel sequence of 31 amino acids with several domains serving unique purposes and is known as a multi-domain peptide. This peptide is easily produced by solid phase synthesis, in the lab.
The idea is basically to get some energy from passing autos as an indemnification for to increase inner city's air quality and also produce electricity to use for inner city's benefit. This is an example of the process of an energy recycling system designed for Blaubach and Tel-Aviv street's junction in Cologne.
This project concerns spacehack. We plan to build a cubesat cluster.
Cubesats can successfully be used to generate information relevant to both science, and policy making, a prime example thereof is Quakesat : (This is not to claim that these cubesate *solved* the questions around ELF signals,
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