Figurative language confuses chatbots
When chatbots are confronted with dialog that includes idioms or similes, their performance drops to between 10 and 20 percent.
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Wearable harvests power while you sleep
Engineers have developed a flexible strip that can be worn on a fingertip and generate small amounts of electricity when a person’s finger sweats or presses on it.
Smart system helps robots navigate emergency rooms
Scientists have developed a more accurate navigation system that allows robots to better negotiate busy clinical environments in general and emergency departments more specifically.
An all-in-one health monitor
Engineers have developed a skin patch that can continuously track blood pressure and heart rate while measuring the wearer’s levels of glucose as well as lactate.
A GPS-like system for flexible medical robots
Roboticists at the University of California San Diego have developed an affordable, easy to use system to track the location of flexible surgical robots inside the human body.
CRISPR repurposed to develop better antibiotics
Researchers have repurposed the gene-editing tool CRISPR to study which genes are targeted by particular antibiotics, providing clues on how to improve existing antibiotics or develop new ones.
Will we grow and eat your own vaccines?
The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm.
Next step in creating lung organoids
Realistic mini-lungs, grown in lab dishes, feature all cell types that make up the human organ, allowing for “Phase 0” testing of new treatments for respiratory diseases.
Navigation the brain's arteries with a steerable catheter
For the first time, a steerable catheter will give neurosurgeons the ability to steer the device in any direction they want while navigating the brain's arteries and blood vessels.
The next generation of brain-computer interfaces
Future brain-computer interface systems employ a network of independent, wireless microscale neural sensors to record and stimulate brain activity.
Skin patch for early warning of strokes
Engineers developed a soft and stretchy ultrasound patch that can be worn on the skin to monitor blood flow through major arteries and veins deep inside a person’s body.
Hydrogel protects heart from post-op adhesions
Researchers have designed a device to safely and accurately spray the hydrogel inside the area where open heart surgery is being performed.
AI predicts how patients with viral infections will fare
Researchers used an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to sift through terabytes of gene expression data to look for shared patterns in patients with past pandemic viral infections, including SARS, MERS and swine flu.
Bioprinter speeds up drug development
A 3D printer that rapidly produces large batches of custom biological tissues could help make drug development faster and less costly.
Machine learning speeds up drug discovery
Researchers have developed a machine learning-based technique that speeds speeds up calculations of drug molecules' binding affinity to proteins.
'Wearable microgrid' uses human body to power small gadgets
Nanoengineers have developed a "wearable microgrid" that harvests and stores energy from the human body to power small electronics.
Face mask sensor to detect COVID-19
Researchers are developing a color-changing test strip that can be stuck on a mask and used to detect SARS-CoV-2 in a user’s breath or saliva.
Wearable may signal you're developing COVID-19
A smart ring that generates continuous temperature data may foreshadow COVID-19, even in cases when infection is not suspected.
Bioprinting nanoparticles for ovarian cancer immunotherapy
Nanoengineers plan to develop an immunotherapy for ovarian cancer using 3D-bioprinted plant virus nanoparticles.
Wearable sensor tracks Vitamin C levels in sweat
Researchers have developed a wearable, non invasive Vitamin C sensor that could provide a new, highly personalized option for users to track their daily nutritional intake and dietary adherence.
University starts drone transport program with UPS, Matternet
Drone service slated to begin February 2020, with goals of enhancing efficacy, reliability and predictability of delivering medical products between hospitals and laboratories.
The robots that dementia caregivers want
A team of scientists spent six months co-designing robots with informal caregivers for people with dementia, such as family members.
3D printed implant promotes nerve cell growth
Spinal cord injury: In rat models, the novel scaffolding mimicked natural anatomy and boosted stem cell-based treatment; the approach is scalable to humans.
Wearable ultrasound patch monitors central blood pressure
Scientists created a flexible ultrasonic patch that non-invasively monitors the blood pressure in major vessels such as the jugular vein and carotid artery.
Biometric fingerprinting tool for newborn identifcation
Researchers at the University of California San Diego develop a new non-touch technology that rapidly identifies infants and children.
Multifunctional ‘smart bandage’ monitors physical signals
Multifunctional ‘smart bandage’ wirelessly monitors a variety of physical signals, from respiration, to body motion, to temperature, to eye movement, to heart and brain activity.
Graphene electrodes makes brain probes more sensitive
Graphene electrodes could enable higher quality imaging of brain cell activity.
Nanorobots clear bacteria and toxins from blood
Engineers have developed tiny ultrasound-powered robots that can swim through blood, removing harmful bacteria along with the toxins they produce.
Wearable system monitors stomach’s activity throughout the day
Researchers have developed a wearable, non-invasive system to monitor electrical activity in the stomach — essentially an electrocardiogram but for the gastro-intestinal tract.
AI quickly and accurately diagnoses eye diseases
Using machine learning, researchers have developed a new computational tool to screen patients with common but blinding retinal diseases, potentially speeding diagnoses and treatment.