Detect Parkinson’s and COVID in 10 Seconds From Speech

by Unber Shafiq | October 26, 2022 | Enabling Tech

We recently covered MIT’s Parkinson’s detecting AI model that offers diagnosis based on the patient’s breathing pattern. A recent research published in the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, IEEE Access, and Computers in Biology and...

AI Can Now Use Speech Samples To Track Alzheimer’s

by William McCleary | October 25, 2022 | Enabling Tech

It’s something that more than 6 million Americans face every day: Alzheimer’s disease. And their numbers are expected to rise to around 13 million by the year 2050. Today, more than 1 in 10 Americans over the age of 65 have the disease, but tracking the...

A New Smart Pill Design Delivers Complex Drugs by Boring

by Unber Shafiq | October 25, 2022 | Enabling Tech

Oral administration is unquestionably the most common method of drug delivery; it’s easy to simply swallow a pill. However, peptide and protein drugs cannot be administered this way. One of the major causes why large protein drugs are so difficult to administer...

Is the World Ready for Biomemetic Robotic Hands? [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 24, 2022 | Enabling Tech

Recent advances in robotic prosthesis technologies include a sense of touch, greater range of motion, and brain-to-computer interfaces (BCI) that enable a user to control movement by thinking. Poland-based Clone Incorporated Is leaping forward with biomimetic robotic...

Better, More Breathable E-Skin is Here

by William McCleary | October 21, 2022 | Enabling Tech

They’re heralding it as the “world’s first mesh (nanomesh) structured electronic skin device.” And its makers, researchers at South Korea’s Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), say the device represents a leap forward...

Simple Breath Samples Could Measure Glucose Levels

by William McCleary | October 14, 2022 | Enabling Tech

Might breath be the way diabetes sufferers say goodbye to finger pricks for measuring blood glucose levels? Don’t hold yours just yet, but researchers at Canada’s University of Waterloo have created a diabetes-monitoring device that uses gas sensors to...