October 20, 2020
Celdara Medical announced today the launch of the Pandemic Security Initiative's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), a group of outstanding scientists and infectious disease experts. The SAB is an integral part of the initiative, and informs the initiative's priorities, approaches, and opportunities for collaboration, all in the pursuit of pandemic preparedness.
The Pandemic Security Initiative Introduces Scientific Advisory Board Founding Members
October 20, 2020
Scientists have been able to operate a tiny, tumbling microrobot inside an animal colon for the first time, an innovation that promises all kinds of uses for medical monitoring and drug delivery.
Scientists Have Piloted a Tumbling Microbot Inside an Animal Colon For The First Time
October 20, 2020
When laboratory research came to a grinding halt this spring, some faculty shifted their research operations to tackle COVID-19, including a professor currently working on a vaccine.
October 19, 2020
Manipulated videos, audio and images have been around for years, but the rise of artificial intelligence and advanced editing software have made them much, much harder to spot. It’s a dangerous new world, where our very sense of reality can be thrown into doubt.
October 19, 2020
Foodborne illnesses linked to produce make regular news headlines these days. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has investigated outbreaks of Salmonella, Listeria and E. coli related to mushrooms, peaches, onions and clover sprouts just this year. FDA averages more than a dozen similar outbreaks annually.
Grant will help Purdue scientist develop rapid test for produce safety
October 19, 2020
Want to cook like the ancient Egyptians? You don’t need a fancy cookbook or the ability to read hieroglyphics, all you really need is a sourdough starter.
October 17, 2020
Researchers at Purdue University have now created a new technique that utilizes concepts derived from machine learning and has applied them to tandem mass spectrometry. This improves the information flow in the drug development. The work produced by the researchers can be found in Chemical Science, a peer reviewed journal.
October 16, 2020
What happens when you bring three scientists of diverse disciplines together and give them the resources of two of the country’s top research facilities? In this case, they discover a new material that may help scientists learn more about neurological disorders and possibly take some big steps toward brain-machine interfaces.
October 16, 2020
Thin tissue grafts and flexible electronics have a host of applications for wound healing, regenerative medicine and biosensing. A new device inspired by an octopus's sucker rapidly transfers delicate tissue or electronic sheets to the patient, overcoming a key barrier to clinical application.
Octopus-inspired sucker transfers thin, delicate tissue grafts and biosensors
October 15, 2020
A rectangular robot as small as a few human hairs can move through a large intestine by backflipping, engineers at Purdue University have demonstrated in living animal models.
