Researchers using brain imaging to identify people with suicidal thoughts just landed a $3.8 million grant from the National Institute for Mental Health. Marcel Just of Carnegie Mellon University and David Brent of the University of Pittsburgh will use the money to advance their research analyzing the alterations in how brains represent certain concepts, such […]
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Researchers debut digestible battery
By Sarah Faulkner Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University unveiled an ingestible battery that could eventually power medical devices, including drug-delivery mechanisms. The inspiration came when Christopher Bettinger, PhD, and his team noted that melanin pigments bind and unbind metallic ions. “We thought, ‘This is just like a battery,’” Bettinger said. The melanin pigments are encapsulated […]