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[ RESEARCH ]
DISCOVERIES
Team gets $1 million to develop rapid sensor technology
for cattle disease
Bovine respiratory disease, one of the most prevalent and
costly illnesses in the beef and dairy industries, accounts
for about half of all feedlot deaths in North America and
costs producers as much as $900 million a year. Quickly
diagnosing the illness could improve the well-being of
animals and save producers significant money. Current tests don’t offer results for four or more days.
Purdue University researchers, led by Mohit Verma,
an assistant professor of agricultural and biological
engineering, are developing technology to reduce
diagnosis time to about 30 minutes. Their work
is being funded by a $1 million National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant.
FOOD SAFETY
Innovative treatment prevents spread of
bacteria across metal surfaces
AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
MEDICINE
Augmented reality tool shown to help
surgeons remotely guide first responders
in battlefield-like scenarios
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Wearable patch may provide new
treatment option for skin cancer
Purdue innovators have created a novel wearable patch
to provide an improved treatment experience for people
with melanoma. Bioresorbable silicon nanoneedles are
built on a thin, flexible, and water-soluble medical film.
The water-soluble film serves as a temporary holder that
can be conformably interfaced with the soft, curvilinear
surface of the skin during the insertion of the nanoneedles, followed by rapid, complete dissolution within
a minute.
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Smartphone app to help assess anemia by taking a picture of a person’s eyelid
Purdue engineers have developed software
that would enable medical staff to take a picture of a patient’s inner eyelid with a smartphone and instantly receive a near-accurate
count of hemoglobin, a protein in red blood
cells. The team is working on embedding the
software into a mobile app. The app could
help bring sooner diagnoses and treatment
or allow a person to better manage a blood
disorder from home. The app also would help
clinics in developing countries to better treat
patients without the infrastructure to provide
blood tests.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
C LO C KW ISE F RO M TO P : SUR A J M O H A N; P H OTO P ROVID E D ; VI NCE N T WA LT E R ;
P H OTO P ROV IDE D ; UN IVE R S ITY P HOTO/ E DGA R ROJA S M UÑOZ
A Purdue-led study is the first to show medics
successfully performing surgery in lifelike simulations of war zones by receiving guidance from
surgeons through an augmented reality headset. The headset transmits a recorded view of
the operating site to the surgeon, who can then
use a large-display touch screen to mark up the
recording with drawings of how to complete the
surgical procedure. Augmented reality helps first
responders see the surgeons’ annotated instructions directly on their view of the operating field.
Purdue researchers have developed a treatment to infuse a hardened metal surface with
naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides. The
technology creates a hard metal surface that
kills bacteria that try to attach to the surface.
The oxidation process creates an optically colored material, which provides a simple visual
indicator of wear or degradation in antimicrobial performance.
