Major media outlets are questioning the ability of the Battelle Critical Care Decontamination System (CCDS) to safely reprocess used N95 respirators up to 20 times, as the company has claimed. The FDA granted the nonprofit tech development company an emergency use authorization in March for its vaporized hydrogen peroxide system to decontaminate N95 respirators used […]
Mesa ships 10,000 COVID-19 rapid tests
Mesa Biotech announced today that it is shipping 10,000 of its Accula SARS-CoV-2 molecular rapid point-of-care tests this week for detecting COVID-19. The San Diego-based company’s palm-sized testing platform is designed to enable “near-patient” testing outside a central laboratory with diagnostic results in 30 minutes. Accula uses reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technology to […]
This device can reactivate dead brains: Is it creepy or cool?
Scientists at Yale University have developed a device that can restore circulation and cellular activity in a pig’s brain four hours after death, raising ethical questions about the possibilities of one day applying it to humans. BrainEx is an open-source device originally based on CaVESWave, a system developed by Biomed Innovations of North Carolina to preserve donated organs for […]
This low-magnetic MRI field produces clear images of the lungs
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and Siemens developed a low magnetic-field MRI system to improve imaging of the lungs. The high-performance, low magnetic-field MRI system is designed to improve the image quality of the lungs and other internal structures. It is also designed for patients who have pacemakers and defibrillators and is compatible […]
NIH invests over $220M in BRAIN initiative
The National Institutes of Health announced today that it is funding more than 200 new awards, totaling over $220 million in investments, through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Some of the new awards include the creation of a wireless optical tomography cap for scanning human brain activity; a noninvasive brain-computer interface […]
