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Elon Musk is still developing the NEURALINK, and he is getting ready to reveal huge news on the artificial intelligence brain chip interface that could improve your brain and let you control gadgets with your mind. The billionaire has suggested that this device could one day “in principle, fix anything that is wrong with the …
New research published in Scientific Reports from the University of Alberta reveals a map aimed at identifying which parts of the spinal cord may trigger areas that put movement together such as the hips, ankles, toes, and knees. Vivan Mushahwar has been working over two decades working to bring her dream of helping people to …
Siempre se están buscando nuevos métodos para aplicar tratamientos. A veces, es coger el medicamento correcto, puede resultar difícil. Sin embargo, un nuevo invento de la ciencia médica, puede dar la respuesta estos problemas. Hablamos de un CHIP de ADN, que tendría cada paciente. La utilidad que tendría este instrumento médico, sería casi infinita. Ayudaría …
By gary clark Progress has been made into the development of silicon computer chips that could be used to repair damaged nerve or muscle fibers, among other critical applications. Scientists at Edinburgh University have successfully developed a technique that allows neurons to grow in detailed patterns on silicon chips. According to Professor Alan Murray, head …
By Donna Sorbello Before long, sensors may be implanted in our bodies to do things like measure blood-glucose levels in diabetics or retinal pressure in glaucoma patients. But to be practical, they’ll have to both be very small–as tiny as a grain of sand–and use long-lasting batteries of similarly small size, a combination not commercially …
By Bill Freeman A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflops) has been unveiled by Intel. The Teraflops chip is not a commercial release but could point the way to more powerful processors, said the firm. The chip achieves performance on a piece of silicon no …
By Bill Freeman For patients living with heart failure and other health conditions, blood draws and diagnostic tests are commonplace in order to evaluate their condition. Often, though, chemical or physiologic changes silently cause damage that is not detected until much later. But what if in the future a tiny device, one the size of …
By Bill Freeman Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed a microchip-based test that may allow more labs to diagnose influenza infections and learn more about the viruses causing illness. The FluChip successfully distinguished among 72 influenza strains–including the H5N1 avian influenza strain–in …
By Bill Freeman ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. &emdash; Someday in the not-too-distant future patients may visit a doctor’s office, provide a sample of saliva or blood, and know in minutes if they are prone to heart disease, gum disease, or cancer. There would be no sending samples to off-site labs for analysis and waiting days …
By Bill Freeman Researchers in Singapore are currently developing a chip that can almost instantaneously detect whether or not a person has flu, SARS, dengue fever, and other respiratory illnesses. The respiratory pathogens detection chip is roughly the same size as a 50-cent-coin. To the use the chip doctors simply place a couple of drops …