Profi Nasal Spray
$20.00
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 …
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A Robot That Melts and Reforms
Researchers have devised a robot that can liquefy and then reform—an characteristic inspired by sea cucumbers that rapidly change their stiffness. The shape-shifting invention can move between liquid and solid states by …
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New Breath-Powered Hand Prosthetic Improves Accessibility
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 …
Via bloomberg.com
Mind-Reading Device Implanted in First US Patient
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 …
Via restofworld.org
A Healthcare Delivery App That Benefits Nurses and Patients
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 …
Via thetimes.co.uk
Scientists Develop a Pen That Detects Alzheimer’s
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 …
Via npr.org
How a Video Game Helps Treat Depression and Mental Decline
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 …
Via scitechdaily.com
Scientists Develop a Technology That Reverses Hearing Loss
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 …
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Scientists Succeed in Growing New Bones Using Sound Waves
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 …