March 25, 2021
To beard or not to beard, that is the question. But when it comes to protecting yourself against COVID-19, shaving your beard or at least trimming it to accommodate a face mask, is advisable.
March 23, 2021
A team of researchers from Purdue University worked with biomedical, mechanical and chemical engineers, along with clinicians, to develop the novel technology. The team enabled commercial soft contact lenses to be a bioinstrumentation tool for unobtrusive monitoring of clinically important information associated with underlying ocular health conditions.
March 19, 2021
When storms and rain are on the way, meteorologists rely on Doppler Radar to look into the clouds. What if a similar process could be used to look inside your cells to detect sickness?
Purdue scientists use doppler to look inside of cells, potentially speeding up diagnoses
March 18, 2021
Electroretinography is a common technique for diagnosing and following up on eye conditions such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and retinitis pigmentosa. To perform an electroretinography exam, a device is placed against the eye that projects light onto it and measures the resulting electrical signals that are generated by the retina. Commercial electroretinography devices are rigid and require electrodes, often in the form of a hard contact lens, to touch the eye or the bulbar conjunctiva just underneath. This is irritating and unpleasant, and often requires general anesthesia or sedation to be administered, in addition to topical anesthesia.
Electrodiagnosis of Ocular Diseases Using Sensor-Enabled Contacts
March 17, 2021
COVID-19 ushered in a new era of outdoor dining as struggling restaurants tried to stay in business while minimizing guests’ chances of infection.
Outdoor seating isn’t always safer than indoor dining. Here’s why.
March 11, 2021
A new soft contact lens may soon be joining the ranks of methods to diagnose and monitor ocular diseases. A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Purdue University in the U.S. created the lens, which is a novel, painless, and unobtrusive way to keep an eye on these medical conditions.
March 11, 2021
A research group from Purdue University collaborated with chemical, mechanical and biomedical engineers, together with clinicians, to create the novel technology. The researchers facilitated commercial soft contact lenses to be used as a bioinstrumentation tool for unobtrusive tracking of clinically significant data linked to underlying ocular health conditions.
New Contact Lens Technology to Help Diagnose and Monitor Medical Conditions
March 11, 2021
In March 2020, as the scope of the COVID-19 pandemic was coming into view, Jen Nwankwo and colleagues turned a pair of artificial intelligence (AI) tools against SARS-CoV-2. One newly developed AI program, called SUEDE, digitally screens all known druglike compounds for likely activity against biomolecules thought to be involved in disease. The other, BAGEL, predicts how to build inhibitors to known targets. The two programs searched for compounds able to block human enzymes that play essential roles in enabling the virus to infect our cells.
Researchers race to develop antiviral weapons to fight the pandemic coronavirus
March 11, 2021
A new soft contact lens may soon be joining the ranks of methods to diagnose and monitor ocular diseases. A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Purdue University in the U.S. created the lens, which is a novel, painless, and unobtrusive way to keep an eye on these medical conditions.
March 10, 2021
The Future of the Microbiome co-chairs Len Monheit, CEO, Trust Transparency Center and Nathan Gray, Co-Director, Nutraceutic are delighted to announce the first round of speakers for the upcoming summit taking place March 23-25, 2021.
