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03 Feb 23

FDA Warns Consumers Not to Purchase or Use EzriCare Artificial Tears Due to Potential Contamination

Biotechnology & Biomedical

Audience: Consumers February 2, 2023 -- FDA is warning consumers and health care practitioners not to purchase and immediately stop using EzriCare Artificial Tears or Delsam Pharma’s Artificial Tears due to potential bacterial contamination....

01 Feb 23

GPT Protein Models Speak Fluent Biology

Biotechnology & Biomedical

Artificial intelligence has already shaved years off research into protein engineering. Now, for the first time, scientists have synthesized proteins predicted by an AI model in the lab and found them to work just as well as their natural counterparts. The research used a deep-learning language model for protein engineering…

01 Feb 23

IBSA Pharma Inc. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Select Lots of Tirosint®-Sol (levothyroxine sodium) Oral Solution Due to Subpotency

Biotechnology & Biomedical

Audience: Health Professional, Pharmacy, Consumer February 01, 2023 -- IBSA Pharma Inc. is voluntarily recalling 27 lots of TIROSINT®-SOL (levothyroxine sodium) Oral Solution to the consumer level. This voluntary recall has been...

01 Feb 23

Autonomous Drive Emulation: Applying C-V2X Test Solutions Across the Automotive Workflow

Civil, Structural & Architecture

Achieving fully autonomous driving relies on vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication between the surrounding infrastructure and in-vehicle-based sensors.The functionality and safety of systems that incorporate V2X must be verified across a variety of situations and conditions. As the breadth and depth of such testing increases, it quickly becomes too expensive, impractical, and…

31 Jan 23

Transparency Depends on Digital Breadcrumbs

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

From the moment we wake up and reach for our smartphones and throughout the day as we text each other, upload selfies to social media, shop, commute, work, work out, watch streaming media, pay bills, and travel, and even while we’re sleeping, we spew personal data like jets sketching contrails…

30 Jan 23

New Faraday Cages Can Be Switched Off and On

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Advanced new Faraday cages—the metal mesh enclosures that can block wireless signals—can also be switched on and off for reversible protection against noise, a new study finds.In addition, these new shields can be easily fabricated through a technique akin to spray-painting, which could help them find use in electronics, researchers…

30 Jan 23

Evolution and Impact of Wi-Fi Technology

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The importance of Wi-Fi as the most popular carrier of wireless IP traffic in the emerging era of IoT and 5G continues its legacy, and Wi-Fi standards are continually evolving to help implement next generation applications in the cyberspace for positioning, human computer interfacing, motion, and gesture detection, as well…

29 Jan 23

Roboticists Want to Give You a Third Arm

Biotechnology & Biomedical

What could you do with an extra limb? Consider a surgeon performing a delicate operation, one that needs her expertise and steady hands—all three of them. As her two biological hands manipulate surgical instruments, a third robotic limb that’s attached to her torso plays a supporting role. Or picture a…

28 Jan 23

Why EVs Aren’t a Climate Change Panacea

Civil, Structural & Architecture

“Electric cars will not save the climate. It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has stated. If Birol were from Maine, he might have simply observed, “You can’t get there from here.” This is not to imply in any way that electric vehicles…

27 Jan 23

The Costly Impact of Non-Strategic Patents

Civil, Structural & Architecture

The five largest auto manufacturers will face massive U.S. patent fees within the next five years. This report examines auto industry lapse trends and how a company’s decisions on keeping, selling or pruning patents can greatly impact its cost savings and revenue generation opportunities.Patent lapse strategies can help companies in…