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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory helped the Seattle-based company Blood Cell Storage develop an innovative optical sensing device designed to measure the pH of platelet products without compromising blood storage bags. The florescence sensor integrated with a platelet storage bag allows...

Dr. Marvin Warner, a research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been researching the individual pieces of antibodies to set up a chemical reaction that will give off light just by mixing reagents together with a sample that contains an explosive molecule.

This video shows how the FDA solved a complex problem involving Huber needles, based on scientific investigations conducted by FDA's Office of Science and Engineering Labs.

Most medical device inventions start out as a single great idea, but how does that idea become a marketed medical device? This video provides a brief overview of how a medical device, which can range from a contact lens to a knee implant to an MRI machine, begins with an idea and ends with its submission...

Access to patient-specific information is key to delivering more personalized treatment. A team of biomedical engineers and hematologists at the University of Pennsylvania has conducted large-scale, patient-specific simulations of blood function under the flow conditions found in blood vessels,...

North America's leading showcase of machine vision and imaging components and solutions. May 8-10, 2012, Boston, MA www.visiononline.org

This week's INSIDER story demonstrated a Star Trek-like, human-scale 3D videoconferencing pod  that allows people in different locations to video conference as if they are standing in front of each other.

Today‘s cars are increasingly custom-built. One customer might want electric windows and heated door mirrors, while another is satisfied with the minimum basic equipment. The situation with aircraft is no different: each airline is looking for different interior finishes. Yet the...

What happens when you put a fully equipped five-story building — which includes an intensive care unit, a surgery suite, piping and air conditioning, fire barriers, and even a working elevator — through a series of high-intensity earthquakes?

An air sampler the size of an earplug is expected to cheaply and easily collect atmospheric samples to improve computer climate models. Developed by Sandia National Laboratories, the design employs a commonly used alloy to house an inexpensive microvalve situated above the sample chamber.

At the Ames Laboratory, the same atomization effect seen in a fuel injector is being applied to titanium metal resulting in fine titanium powders that are less than half the width of a human hair. Titanium melts above 3000°F and is highly corrosive - requiring specialized containers. The liquid titanium is poured...

A team from Georgia Tech, led by Post Doctorate Fellow Mario Romero of the School of Interactive Computing, has designed BrailleTouch for touchscreen mobile devices. The prototype app allows visually impaired people to easily type and opens the door for everyone to text or type without looking at the...

Ames Laboratory scientist Song Zhang explains his real-time 3D imaging technology. The technique can be used to create high-resolution, real-time, precise, 3D images for use in healthcare, security, and entertainment applications.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are developing an implantable system for a third-generation artificial retina as part of a U.S. Department of Energy project to produce an "retinal prosthesis" that could restore vision to millions of people suffering from eye diseases.

A next-generation bottled liquid scanner from Los Alamos National Laboratory called MagViz BLS is demonstrated at the Albuquerque International Sunport, New Mexico.

A simple, unobtrusive wrist sensor could gauge the severity of epileptic seizures as accurately as electroencephalograms (EEGs) do — but without the ungainly scalp electrodes and electrical leads. The device could make it possible to collect clinically useful data from epilepsy patients as...

Tabletop femtosecond lasers are already used in eye surgery, but researchers believe that they may be the future of microsurgery, offering benefits in applications inside the body, ranging from repairing the vocal cords to removing small tumors in the spinal cord or other tissues. Scientists at the University of Texas...

Using fMRI brain imaging and a video game, Stanford University researchers teach girls at risk of depression how to train their brains away from negative situations. The results show a promising new strategy to prevent the onset of depression – one that researchers hope to eventually apply to anyone at risk of suffering the...

Stanford electrical engineers have created a tiny wireless chip - driven by magnetic currents - that's small enough to travel inside the human body. They hope it will someday be used for a wide range of biomedical applications, from delivering drugs to cleaning arteries.

Proteins control nearly all of life's functions, but how they self-assemble - or fold - is an unsolved problem in biology. Understanding how folding goes awry could lead to cures for diseases caused by protein misfolding, like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Stanford University chemistry Professor Vijay Pande's project...

A Queen's University researcher has created a Star Trek-like human-scale 3D videoconferencing pod that allows people in different locations to video conference as if they are standing in front of each other. Two people simply stand in front of their own life-size cylindrical pods and talk to...