In the Scientific Reports study,
the researchers tested the device in 11 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital and University Hospital La Paz in Madrid, at various points during their chemotherapy treatment.
The researchers tested the device prototype by applying their rehabilitation protocol — which combines electrical and chemical stimulation — to paralyzed rats.
How the study was done
The researchers tested the device's impact both with the microelectronics turned on, and with them turned off so there was no correction for movement.
To ensure device safety for human use,
the researchers tested their device in pigs which are a typical analog for humans due to their similar physiology.
Not exact matches
North Korea has
tested intercontinental ballistic missiles before, but
researchers found them prohibitively small for delivering a heavy nuclear
device halfway around the world to the continental US.
While the results can't conclusively prove that all those second screens are causing the changes to the brain (differences in brain structure could also lead people to be more likely to multitask), the
researchers suggest that the results should nonetheless serve as a red flag for fans of multiple
devices while further studies are carried out to
test causality.
After a group of 60 volunteers
tested the fitness bands,
researchers realized that while most of the
devices measured heart rate well, they all failed to accurately gauge energy expenditure.
Most countries where Zika and Dengue are prevalent do not allow patient samples to be shipped out of the country, so the
researchers traveled to several countries, including Mexico, Colombia, India, and Brazil, to
test their
devices with patient samples.
Now, a team of
researchers has taken a key step toward directly measuring the orbitals of molecules lying on a surface, an advance that should let theorists
test the results of their high - precision quantum mechanics calculations and could pave the way to designer molecular
devices.
But what is true is that a
researcher at Temple University has created a
device that in early
testing does appear to boost highway mileage by about 20 percent.
Researchers had begun
testing nuclear
devices at the Nevada
Test Site in 1951; this latest series of blasts was codenamed Operation Julin, and the final two
tests of the series — dubbed Hunters Trophy and Divider — took place on 18 September and 23 September, respectively.
As proof of concept, the
researchers estimated the yield of the 1945 Trinity nuclear
test in New Mexico — the world's first detonation of a nuclear
device.
In contrast, newer kits, like the Harvard
researchers» creation and Yo Home Sperm
Test, a
device that went on sale last week, can not only count sperm and measure its concentration, but can also assess its motility.
After profiles were stored, the
researchers designated one person's signature as the «owner» of the
device and repeated the
tests.
With the long - distance cyclists, the
researchers tested the durability of the
device in the complex and unpredictable conditions of the desert.
When assessing the
device's sensitivity with spiked mouse serum samples, the
researchers were able to detect HIV and HCV antibodies at 300 picograms per mL and 750 picograms per mL, respectively — values lower than currently existing HIV and HCV antibody
tests.
Once the
researchers attached the aptamers to the carbon nanotubes, they
tested the
devices in a buffer specifically chosen because it has similar properties to biological fluids.
The
researchers discuss the design and
testing of their
device this week in Biomicrofluidics, from AIP Publishing.
Medical
researchers could potentially use such
devices to integrate multiple medical
tests on a single «lab on a chip.»
The
researchers worked with Dr. Hayat Mousa and
tested the
device on 11 pediatric patients at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego.
Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Terry Johnson, left, the project leader for the Hydrogen Station Equipment Performance (HyStEP)
device, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory
researcher Chris Ainscough prepare HyStEP for
testing at NREL's Energy Systems Integration Lab.
Seventeen
test subjects participated in the study and
researchers were able to successfully demonstrate that this
device can in fact be used to diagnose inflamed joints.
Researchers said the gains are a significant advance in their ongoing work to develop and
test a practical BCI assistive technology that people with paralysis could use easily, reliably, independently, and on demand to regain control over external
devices.
An inexpensive, portable, microchip - based
test for diagnosing type - 1 diabetes could improve patient care worldwide and help
researchers better understand the disease, according to the
device's inventors at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
The
researchers next conducted a skin patch
test on 20 subjects and detected no inflammation on the participants» skin after they had worn the
device for a week.
The
researchers trained staff at a children's hospital to use the
device, and they
tested it on 25 patients during a flu outbreak.
Researchers at the Cincinnati Eye Institute wanted to
test the safety and effectiveness of the
device, so they asked 97 patients with moderate to severe dry eye to use TrueTear for 180 days.
The
researchers then subjected the
device to a variety of
tests, finding first that it had a strong energy efficiency of 7.9 percent, producing a current of 7.86 milliwatts per square centimeter, as the current density was 13.8 milliamperes per square centimeter at 0.57 volts, based on a simulated sunlight of 100 milliwatts per square centimeter.
By measuring charge and mass using the nMIS sensor,
researchers can ensure that disease - detecting biomolecules are successfully sealed and functional inside the
testing device.
Story number 1:
Researchers have
tested a noninvasive
device that can heal a punctured lung with ultrasound.
The group
tested the flexibility of its
device by bending it more than 2,000 times, after which the
researchers report the sensor's performance remained basically unchanged.
The
researchers hope to start
testing a partially spiralled satellite dish within the next few days, then to use a similar
device to transmit a twisted radio beam several hundred metres across the lagoon in Venice three months from now.
Wong was not involved in the study, but he is part of a team of
researchers currently
testing the
device in a phase III clinical trial, which includes more than 200 glioblastoma patients in the United States and Europe.
Many
researchers are already growing hepatocyte - like cells: Bhatia, for example, has already commercialized a
device that uses bioengineered cells for drug
testing.
Teams of
researchers working in a multi-lab collaboration have designed, built, and
tested two magnetic
devices called superconducting undulators.
The
researchers tested out their
device on a mouse model and found that the electrodes can record action and local field potentials of neurons with high signal - to - noise ratio.
To
test this notion, the
researchers put paraquat - exposed mice on a regimen of the drug serving as a trigger for the suicide
device now armed in all their senescent cells, rapidly eliminating the excess senescent astrocytes from their brains (Figure 1, (a-c)-RRB-.
To Detect Colon Cancer, Look in the Mouth
Researchers in the Johns Hopkins Hereditary Colorectal Cancer Program, found that people who have a hereditary colon cancer syndrome known as familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) also have abnormally dense blood vessel growth in the lining of their mouths, so they developed a simple and quick screening
test that uses an automated camera - like
device to measure the vascular density in the lining of the mouth.
Although previous studies have
tested harp - like structures for this application, the
researchers had not optimized the harps, nor had they compared their performances to mesh
devices.
The prototype
device has performed well in laboratory
testing, but the
researchers say they are continuing to optimize the technology.
Researchers at Cleveland Clinic wanted to
test how well four popular wearable
devices measured heart rate, which is involved in a formula that calculate how many calories a person is burning while they exercise.
Three of those
devices were
tested by
researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The firm's
researchers initially found the info leak and remote code execution vulnerability, and then
tested Android, Windows and iOS
devices to confirm the issues, he told TechNewsWorld.
The heart rate monitors built into the Apple Watch and other wearable
devices can detect abnormal heart rhythms with 97 percent accuracy, according to a new study conducted by the team behind the Cardiogram app for Apple Watch in conjunction with
researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.More than 139 million heart rate and step count measurements were collected from 9,750 users of the Cardiogram app who also enrolled in the UC San Francisco Health eHeart Study, with the data used to train DeepHeart, Cardiogram's deep neural network.Once trained, DeepHeart was able to read heart rate data collected by wearables, distinguishing between normal heart rhythm and atrial fibrillation with a 97 percent accuracy rate, both when
testing UCSF patients with known heart
For their
testing,
researchers equipped 60 volunteers with medical - grade
devices to measure both heart rate and energy expenditure via metabolic rate.