News tagged with oxygen sensors

Health check on the road

Safety in traffic depends on a number of factors. One decisive aspect is how fit the driver is. A research team at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), in collaboration with researchers at the BMW Group, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Harnessing carbon nanomaterials for drug delivery systems, oxygen sensors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two nanoscale devices recently reported by University of Pittsburgh researchers in two separate journals harness the potential of carbon nanomaterials to enhance technologies for drug or imaging agent delivery ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Good Eye for Oxygen

(PhysOrg.com) -- We cannot live without it; yet too much of it causes damage: oxygen is a critical component of many physiological and pathological processes in living cells. Oxygen deficiency in tissues is thus related to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Simple drug treatment may prevent nicotine-induced SIDS

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has identified a specific class of pharmaceutical drugs that could be effective in treating babies vulnerable to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), because their mothers smoked ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Oxygen sensor invention could benefit fisheries to breweries

Monitoring oxygen levels in water has applications for oil spills, fish farming, brewing beer and more – and a professor at Michigan State University is poised to help supply that need.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Let me hear your heart beat

(PhysOrg.com) -- What if monitoring your heart rate were as easy as listening to music while you jog? Thanks to advances in space technology, an iPhone will soon be able to do double duty: keep you in tune ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Sensor biochips could aid in cancer diagnosis and treatment

It is very difficult to predict whether a cancer drug will help an individual patient: only around one third of drugs will work directly in a given patient. Researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Medical ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Space sensor helps produce 'greener' glass

What has making glass in common with space exploration? The special technology to measure oxygen atoms outside space vehicles is now being used in the glass industry to produce super-efficient energy-saving ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Famous sloop 'Clearwater' will carry environmental sensor, sending data to Stevens' maritime lab

Later this week, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology will equip the sloop Clearwater with instrumentation that will provide real-time transmission of position, time, surface water temperature, salinity, and dissolved ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In-home health tracking system to deliver alerts to smartphones

For those who are caring for elderly parents, peace of mind is hard to come by. And, for their parents, dignity is hard to retain. But a team of University of Houston researchers hopes to ease worries and frustrations by ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New strategy to combat cancer: Streamlining blood vessel walls

Our blood vessels provide all growing tissues with oxygen and nutrients. The growth of blood vessels (a process termed angiogenesis) is indispensable for the proper functioning of organs and the repair of tissues when they ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2