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NETrolyze, a novel immunotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), was named the $25,000 grand prize winner at a live finalist round held November 15 in New York. The first-in-class therapeutic injectable gel prevents the spread of TNBC, one of the most aggressive cancer types, enabling patients to avoid toxic chemotherapy and expensive treatments – potentially transforming their lives. Click here for the full list of 2024 winners. Also see the Top 100 highest scoring entries.
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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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MULTIVODE™ is an irrigation appliance shaped as a multi-layer composite (packed in a roll) designed to store and deliver irrigation water using hydrogel particles of fraction 0.5 to 2.00 mm.
Brief description of solution:
Safety Electronic Protection Glasses (eyes protection) only worn to order another device wirelessly when operating dangerous cutter & drilling devices (like cutter and trimmer trees devices or a welder or holder devices) to protect the worker otherwise the dangerous device will not work.
In order to save more time for the victims and reduce the difficulties of the rescue, Mazu is a marine rescue drone designed for medium and small vessels.
(Emotion 1) When the vessel is turned over, "Mazu" will set up to the sky automatically and immediately throw a life buoy to victims,
Every year, air pollution causes the premature deaths of between 5.5 million and 7 million people, making it more deadly than HIV, traffic accidents and diabetes combined. The majority of these deaths — about 4 million — are caused by indoor air pollution, primarily in developing countries. But it takes a toll in developed countries as well. In Europe,
With the main target of improving fuel consumption, one of the biggest challenges on harness wiring industries is to reduce weight of the assembled harness. Based on that, research on alternatives to copper wires started with the replacement of copper by aluminum cores which are more cost effective and around 48% weight reduction.
More often than not, an automobile - when parked or braked up a slope - will tend to roll backwards when started up a slope. It takes practice and skill on the part of the driver to control this backward roll to a minimum, to avoid colliding with automobiles on the rear side.
The design of the transmission system for a formula styled racecar using a stock bike engine is one of the best choice for all the engineering students who design the motorsport vehicles for all the student race car build competitions. As there are many rules and restrictions on engine usage such as capacity, maximum power allowed,
This heat retention solar oven works like a greenhouse, allowing sunlight to pass into the pyrex bowl while also retaining heat. Inside the bowl an absorption container filled with dark-colored rocks will act as a heat sink that absorbs sunlight and will heat food placed on top of it.
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Smart Elements is an innovative system of smart low-power products, comprised of Blue Nodes connected wirelessly to Base Stations that allow farmers to remotely collect data over long distances. Thousands of different existing sensors are currently deployed across farms and industrial sites, Page 16 of 58
