Category: Medical Innovation
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Profi Nasal Spray
[ad_1] Created by Harvard Medical School professors, Profi is a new non-medical nasal spray that creates a micro hydrogel lining in your nose, preventing 99% of viral pathogens (cold, flu, COVID, etc.) from being absorbed into your body. Each application lasts eight hours, and is a game changer for being in crowded spaces. [ad_2] Source […]
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] Hip-hop history, stingray sounds, breath-powered prosthetics and more from around the web Sounds from Stingrays Recorded for the First Time A recent study has reversed the commonly held belief that stingrays are silent. For the first time, the creatures’ sounds were captured in a video depicting two mangrove whiprays and a cowtail stingray making […]
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New Breath-Powered Hand Prosthetic Improves Accessibility – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Rather than using conventional cables, the new Airbender prosthetic hand is powered by air. The invention, created by researchers at the University of Oxford, utilizes a purpose-built Tesla turbine that, when combined with the wearer’s breathing, accurately controls finger movements. Not only is the device lightweight and low-maintenance, it also requires such a small […]
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Mind-Reading Device Implanted in First US Patient – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Brooklyn-based startup Synchron has recently implanted their brain device—called strenode—in a patient in the US for the first time. The device will help the patient, who cannot move or speak due to ALS, by converting their thoughts into text. The company has already implanted strenode into four patients in Australia who have successfully been […]
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A Healthcare Delivery App That Benefits Nurses and Patients – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] In Mexico City and Bogotá, residents can order healthcare services—namely clinical lab tests for pregnancy, STIs and COVID-19 as well as vaccinations—through an app called Rappi, which directs a nurse to the user’s home to perform the required treatment. Tests are then taken to the lab and results are received within the next 24 […]
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Scientists Develop a Pen That Detects Alzheimer’s – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Scientists at Manus Neurodynamica, an Edinburgh-based medical technology company, developed a pen that provides an early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. As the current method to test for Alzheimer’s is long, expensive and requires brain imaging, radio tracers and cognitive assessments, this new technology will make screenings more accessible, helping doctors diagnose patients earlier on. […]
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How a Video Game Helps Treat Depression and Mental Decline – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Sarah Shizuko Morimoto’s Neurogrow is a gardening video game designed to increase and improve neural circuitry. For those with geriatric depression or mental decline, the game crucially targets the brain to better respond to anti-depressants. It does so through a series of repetitive memorization and timing exercises—like watering a specific color flower with a […]
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Scientists Develop a Technology That Reverses Hearing Loss – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Founded by MIT scientists, the clinical-stage biotech company Frequency Therapeutics discovered a way to reverse hearing loss without hearing aids or implants. Focusing on progenitor cells (which reside in the inner ear and turn into hair cells when humans are in utero, before going dormant) the company injects small molecules into the cochlea, which […]
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Scientists Succeed in Growing New Bones Using Sound Waves – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Using high-frequency sound waves, scientists at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have managed to grow new bones out of stem cells. Having spent over a decade investigating how sound interacts with different materials, researchers developed a sound wave-generating device that can manipulate cells and fluids. “We can use the sound waves […]
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] Philippe Starck’s private space homes, lie-flay beds in economy class, knitting climate data into scarves and more Farewell to Mathematician Katherine Johnson, Crucial “Hidden Figure” at NASA in the ’60s Space Race From her time as a childhood math prodigy in West Virginia to her crucial role as a “computer” at NASA, where her […]