External artificial pancreas: continual glucose monitor (left), pump worn on the belt that injects insulin under the patient’s skin (right), and a controller (here, a handheld smart phone).
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE REALM OF POSSIBILITIES
NEW IDEAS
- A potential super wheat that actually thrives in salty soils
- A new source of vitamin D from gene-edited tomatoes
- Plucking drinking water from desert air with a low cost gel film
- New cost-effective method for carbon capture from coal-fired power plants in particular
- Could a new bio-glue mean an end to surgical sutures and staples?
- Using a reusable photocatalyst and sunlight to extract hydrogen gas at significantly less expense
- A novel preclinical drug that could have the potential to combat depression, brain injury and diseases that impair cognition
- A low cost, low power technology to help robots accurately map their way indoors using WiFi
- A new haptics method for computers to achieve that true texture
- Could gene editing actually alter the social behavior of animals?
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