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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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"Applied Predictive Decision Environment (APDE 4.0) Is an Integrated Predictive Analytics Platform software system designed specifically to take advantage of a massively parallel vectorized architecture running on Global Intelligence Corporation's newest 275,600 core supercomputer platform know as Thunderbird that,
1. The idea involves a paradigm shift in expanding the corporate support of employee volunteering. This expanded support would have corporations donate a day’s worth of their best creative talent to address product solutions for the elderly and those coping with disabilities.
Concrete production uses a considerable amount of natural resources that cannot be replaced or replenished. With landfills being created at an alarming rate compounded with the increased cost of dumping trash, the need for recycling has reached an all-time high.
Improving automotive safety is one of the major aspects in today’s automotive industry. “Anti-Sinking Airbag System” deals with the automotive safety in passenger vehicles i.e.
a)Avoids the vehicle sinking in a body of water.
Our education system is now totally based on pen and paper; we all give exams on a paper sheet and write all our notes on paper. Nearly 4 billion trees worldwide are cut down each year for paper, Think about it,
FTI has developed a Hybrid Regenerative Energy Recovery System (HERS) that allows motor vehicles to perform their every day tasks much more efficiently than any other vehicle without the technology.
Freedom Motors NL has designed an extremely efficient 1,2 and 3-rotor industrial multifuel rotary engine concept. Displacement is 533 cc per rotor, the working rpm range is between 3000 and 4500 rpm, dependable of type and application. The engine/rpm is electronically controlled without throttle,
MOTOR BIKE ENABLED VERTICAL CLIMBER (MOBEVER)
Pole climbing robots have become an interesting area for research in recent years. Several robots have been developed to solve this given problem. Every construction has its own advantages and disadvantages.
To date armour systems are typically homogenous in construction (i.e. a monolithic plate) and the localised deformation associated with projectile penetration does not take advantage of the entire strength of the armour piece. The armour system of this proposal is a composite metallic structure which has been named “plymetal.”
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