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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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Modern hand-held devices such as smart phones and PDAs have become increasingly powerful in recent years. As mobile devices become more like PCs they will come to replace objects we tend to carry around such as checkbooks, credit cards, cameras, planners, mp3 players, etc. In short,
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an organization dedicated to create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop (XO) with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.
It is too hard to diagnose a patient who just arrived at a hospital. While diagnostic tests are carried by different people, at times the situation becomes life critical. And, most of the time the big picture about the patient is not clear to the doctors.
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Older toilets can use 3.5, 5, or even up to 7 gallons per flush (gpf). Toilets typically account for 30 percent of daily water consumption. The current US national standard is 1.6 gpf, while the California standard is 1.28 gpf.
The disk shaped hand grenade will be a new design. The grenade will be made with metal. All components will be the same in this disk like basketball shape grenade but only difference is its disk shape.
It will be more aerodynamic due to its disk shape.
Treatment of skin malignancies that are resistant to medication, such as super bug or skin cancer, via direct current voltage surrounding the malignancy and center electrode on surface of malignancy, elevating the temperature as the current travels through the root structure to the center electrode.
HexaBlock 1-meter hexagon/triangles are new metric standard blocks that build out into standard North American and global metric building code dimensions. Optimally engineered HexaBlocks snap together by hand to assemble any shape of conventional building. A designer can build out in any direction and any thickness predictably.
Modern Fusion Reactor designs like the Wendelstein 7X utilize magnetic fields that are so complex that it took 19 years just to manufacture the hardware necessary to have them running.
Superlative BioSciences Corp's Cellular Toxicology Service – WHY:
Increasing governments' support to decrease or stop the testing of possible toxic compounds in animals.
Decrease in vivarium and experiments' costs by reducing the use of animals in toxicology testing.
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