by Alfred Poor | November 4, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical
Teeth are intended to last a lifetime, but injury and disease can often lead to the need for a replacement. From George Washington’s (apocryphal) wooden teeth, people have used a variety of metals, ivory, ceramics, and plastic resins to create false teeth....
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by Alfred Poor | October 19, 2015 | General News, Health, Medical
Bacterial and other microbial infections have become a serious problem, especially in hospitals and other clinical settings with the use of antibiotics and sterilizing chemicals have given rise to strains that are resistant to standard treatments. Scientists have...
by Alfred Poor | April 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech
If you need diagnostic work done these days, you typically have to provide some blood or other sample that gets shipped off to a lab somewhere. Then you wait for the results to come back. Wouldn’t it be great if you could find out the answers right away?...
by Alfred Poor | July 9, 2014 | Enabling Tech
You may remember the use of silver nanoparticles to kill odor-causing bacteria in socks and t-shirts. Now scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in England have discovered a new way to combine silver with fabrics to enable a wide range of wearable...
