Each year, the MIT Technology Review recognizes science and technology trailblazers whose work is helping solve global problems. Three members of the Allen School community were named part of this year’s MIT Technology Review…
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New Nanomaterial Helps Patients With Kidney Stones
During a procedure known as laser lithotripsy, urologists use a small, video-guided laser to blast painful, potentially damaging kidney stones to smithereens.
It’s better for the patient if urologists can break kidney stones down as…
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New Nanomaterial Helps Patients With Kidney Stones
During a procedure known as laser lithotripsy, urologists use a small, video-guided laser to blast painful, potentially damaging kidney stones to smithereens.
It’s better for the patient if urologists can break kidney stones down as…
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its secret could help extend human lifespan
The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) can live for more than 200 years, thanks in part to a highly effective DNA-repair protein.Credit: Tony Wu/Nature Picture Library
Encased in a blanket of blubber that is nearly half a metre thick, and with a…
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SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida
SpaceX launched 29 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (Oct. 29), sending them up from Florida’s Space Coast.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 12:35…
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4 Masterful High-End Watches Every Serious Collector Should Know About
Welcome to Watch Guy Watches, GQ’s monthly curation of high-end timepieces for the true watch nerds among us. This October, Piaget teams up with the Andy Warhol Foundation, Massena LAB joins hands with Angelus, Hermès caters to the guitar…
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Lawo Delivers Audio, IP Infrastructure for New Swiss OB Vehicle
Brutal güet, a Swiss broadcast services provider, has rolled out a state-of-the-art outside broadcast (OB) vehicle built on a Lawo AoIP (audio-over-internet protocol) infrastructure to power IP-based workflows.
The new vehicle is outfitted with…
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Ultrasound-driven programmable artificial muscles | Nature
Fabrication of artificial muscles
The negative patterns of the artificial muscles were first designed in commercial electronic design automation software (as shown in Supplementary Fig. 1). The patterns were transferred into a photomask by a…
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A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat
DNA extraction
Plant growth and isolation of high-molecular-weight DNA
High-molecular-weight (HMW) DNA was extracted from young leaf tissue from a single two-week-old seedling grown in an isolated growth chamber under a 12-h photoperiod. The…
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NYU Langone experts treat 32-year-old Westchester mom for breast cancer while pregnant
Christina, a former teacher, was 32 years old when she found out she was pregnant with her second child. Two weeks later, she received the shocking news that she had breast cancer.
Christina’s journey began after feeling a lump on…
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