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Wyss Institute Secured FDA for Organs-on-Chips Technology
Aug 16, 2013Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering of Harvard University has secured a $5.6m contract from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its organs-on-chips technology to assess medical countermeasures for treating acute ...
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Harvard Material Scientists Engineered a Coating for Glass
Aug 7, 2013A team of Harvard material scientists has engineered a coating for glass that makes it self-cleaning and scratch resistant. It means that not only will you never have to rub down your glasses again, but huge amounts of money and energy ...
Tags: Construction, Glass
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A New Transparent Reported Online in The July 31 Edition of Nature Communications
Aug 6, 2013A new transparent, bioinspired coating makes ordinary glass tough, self-cleaning, and incredibly slippery, a team from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard School of Engineering and ...
Tags: Coating, Ordinary Glass
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Harvard Developed an Insect-Like Robot That Achieves Flight by Flapping a Pair of Wings
May 6, 2013IDG News Service - Researchers at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed an insect-like robot that achieves flight by flapping a pair of tiny wings. The robot is small enough to sit on the tip of a ...
Tags: Flying Robot, Robot, Computer Products, Electronics
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A New Way to Store Digital Data in The Form of DNA
Jan 28, 2013According to a team of researchers, there is a way to store digital data in the form of DNA, which could potentially last for tens of thousands of years. The encoding method makes it possible to store at least 100 million hours of ...
Tags: DNA, digital data, high-definition video
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Pharmaceutical Companies Might Not Have to Test New Drugs on Animals or Even Humans
Dec 28, 2012One day, pharmaceutical companies might not have to test new drugs on animals or even humans. Instead, drugs could be tested with organ-on-a-chip technologies. These are not silicon chips that simulate organs or organisms, mind you; they ...
Tags: Organs, Chip, Harvard, Human Body, Silicon
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Harvard University Researchers Have Developed a Squishy Robot
Dec 20, 2012Harvard University researchers have developed a squishy robot that can disguise itself or change its color to stand out from its background. Those features, scientists say, could help surgeons plan complicated operations or aid search and ...
Tags: Harvard University, researchers, squishy robot, DARPA
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Harvard University Scientists Are Working on an Iron Man-Like Smart Suit
Dec 20, 2012Harvard University scientists are working on an Iron Man-like smart suit that could improve soldiers' endurance in war zones. The university received a $2.6 million research grant for the project from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research ...
Tags: Harvard University, scientists, Iron Man like smart suit
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Sequencing Technology to Store 70 Billion Copies of a Yet-Unpublished Book in DNA Code
Dec 19, 2012Harvard researchers have been able to use sequencing technology to store 70 billion copies of a yet-unpublished book in DNA binary code. The results of the project by researchers at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically ...
Tags: Harvard, sequencing technology, DNA binary code, 70 billion books