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According to the Alva Health materials, its patented wearables "work around the clock to detect signatures indicative of stroke, and immediately connect users with emergency responders." [Image: Alva Health]
Dallas-Based Alva Health Gets $500K NSF Grant to Advance Real-Time Stroke Detection Wearable
by Lance Murray | Jun 17, 2025
The NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant is expected to help Alva Health scale its AI-powered, wrist-worn wearable as it expands technical and clinical validation and prepares for a 510(k) submission.
by Lance Murray |
Jun 17, 2025
The lightweight, recyclable material can be printed into complex shapes—including a balloon dog—and shows potential for use in helmets, insulation, and more. The research explores a method still largely untapped in commercial manufacturing.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 16, 2025
The protein—implicated in blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma—was decoded in near-atomic detail by UT Southwestern researchers, including Nobel Prize winner Bruce Beutler. In lab models, turning off midnolin wiped out up to 92% of cancer cells—with minimal impact on healthy ones, according to UT Southwestern.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 11, 2025
An earlier version of the technology was used in jackets worn by U.S. Olympic athletes in 2022. A new fabrication technique could make large-scale production feasible for adaptive clothing to self-powered sensors and wearable tech.
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Left: A sensor constantly monitors a patient's skin for hydration. Right: Engineering students at the R&D Expo at UNT [Photos: Chloe Nguyen/UNT]
From Trash Bots to Skin Sensors: UNT Engineering Students Build for Real-World Impact
by Lance Murray | Jun 6, 2025
At the University of North Texas' annual Research and Design Expo, students tackled challenges in projects from public parks to public health—with innovations in biomedical tech, infrastructure, and sustainability.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 5, 2025
Co-founded by Chief Scientific Advisor Daniel J. Siegwart of UT Southwestern and CEO RA Session II, Signify Bio said it harnesses the human body for the production of in situ protein therapeutics. The round was led by Actium Group with participation from the Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund, Danaher Ventures LLC, Eli Lilly and Company, and BrightEdge, the American Cancer Society's VC arm.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 5, 2025
Tarleton’s Stephenville facility—shared with Texas A&M AgriLife—aims to boost rural research, innovation, and small business. Not yet a year old, it’s earning statewide recognition.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 4, 2025
The UT Dallas team found that mixing small particles between two solid electrolytes can generate an effect called a “space charge layer"—an accumulation of electric charge at the interface between the two materials, making it easier for ions to move across the interface.
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Physicist Ben Jones, left, accepted his award in Vienna. [Photo: UTA]
UT Arlington’s Ben Jones Is Chasing the Universe’s Most Elusive Particles
by Lance Murray | May 27, 2025
Physicist Ben Jones' innovations could help uncover the origins of matter—and deepen our understanding of the universe itself. The scientist was awarded the 2025 International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) Early Career Researcher Instrumentation Award for his particle detector breakthroughs.
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by Lance Murray |
May 25, 2025
The Dallas-based medical center is one of just two in Texas offering osseointegration, a revolutionary implant technique that gives amputees better control, comfort—and for 50-year-old Scott Bryson, the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle.
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by Quincy Preston |
May 13, 2025
Our urban green space hosts a colony of ecological superheroes—aka bats—working tirelessly to pollinate plants and control pests while most humans are fast asleep.
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![A slide showing Tremedics' award-winning technology for treating narrowed aortas in children (left). Their special dissolving stent (right) opens blocked blood vessels and then disappears as the child grows, eliminating the need for repeated surgeries and potentially helping thousands of the 40,000 U.S. babies born with heart defects annually. [Image source: Tremedics]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Tremedic-presentation-360x203.jpg)
by Quincy Preston |
May 12, 2025
Tre Welch, Tremedics Medical Devices Inc., Leon Jacobson, Ted Price, Nerveli Inc., Sarah Iselin, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, TechFW, MassChallenge, ClearLeaf, Feathery, Algas Organics, Coastal Protection Solutions
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A fluorescent image shows stress-related proteins (yellow) accumulating in the brain of a visually impaired fruit fly. [Image: UT Southwestern]
UT Southwestern Researchers Link Blindness to Brain-Wide Stress Response That May Raise Dementia Risk
by Lance Murray | May 2, 2025
A UT Southwestern study of blind fruit flies and mice reveals a brain-wide stress response, shedding light on the biological link between sensory loss and dementia.
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by Lance Murray |
May 2, 2025
Building on a national pilot — Combatting Substance Use and Opioid Crises — that concluded in late 2024, the Fort Worth institution is expanding interprofessional training to strengthen workforce competency and improve care for complex patient needs.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 23, 2025
"As the first and only implantable continuous EEG monitor approved in the U.S., Minder can provide health care professionals and their patients with more accurate and timely diagnoses, enhanced therapeutic drug monitoring, and can better inform decisions on non-drug treatments like surgery," said Epiminder CEO Rohan Hoare.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 4, 2025
Hollywood's "A Minecraft Movie" killed it with a record $163 million opening weekend. Meanwhile, UT Dallas researchers have created their own world in Minecraft to develop educational games embedded in the blocky "digital sandbox"—and launched a new startup to advance their efforts.
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