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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
November 18, 2018
Neural networks can create fake fingerprints to fool biometric scanners, while elsewhere researchers are printing electric circuits onto temporary tattoos. This week, all the coolest discoveries fit to print also include a hopeful Parkinson’s treatment, better detection of food contamination, and a data-collection project that’s diving deep into the bowels of the world’s ... bowels.
 

 
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
December 23, 2017
A Ukrainian startup is 3D-printing tiny homes, Israeli researchers helped paralyzed rats walk again and engineers in Japan built a robot that rolls — or rather crawls — with the punches. We find all this progress deeply moving, don’t you?
 

Robot Carpenters

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It’s Personal: How a Premature Birth Spurred Jeffrey Ashe to Map the Brain

November 15, 2015
Jeffrey Ashe is building tiny brain implants, which could one day improve the lives of people suffering from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. This groundbreaking work was inspired by one of the worst periods of his life.
In 1997, Ashe spent 10 weeks sitting in the pediatric intensive care unit with his son Andrew, who was born weighing just 2 pounds 3 ounces. As he sat and worried, buzzers and alarms went off every few minutes, further fraying his nerves.
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Perspectives

Marching Toward a Cure — Q&A With Ted Thompson of the Parkinson’s Action Network

Ted Thompson Parkinsons Action Network
April 22, 2015

There’s no cure yet for Parkinson’s, and even diagnosing the disease remains a challenge. Yet Ted Thompson remains confident that the best is yet to come for people who have the neurological disorder, thanks to relentless efforts to find innovative ways to treat, diagnose — and eventually cure — the disease.

 
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The Art of Science: Take a Look at the Future of Brain Imaging

June 30, 2014

Three decades ago, engineers at GE research labs in Niskayuna, NY, built one of the first magnetic resonance machines and peered inside a colleague’s head. The result was the world’s first MRI image of the human brain. “This was an exciting time,” says John Schenck, a lead scientist on the project and also the test’s subject. “We worried that we would get to see a big black hole in the center. But we got to see my whole brain.”

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