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Walmart was once considered the future of grocery shopping, offering consumers a slew of discounted choices, compared to the competition. Yet, market trends point toward a faster, cheaper, smaller and more streamlined experience. The result: One of the most common shopping experiences in American…

Wrist-device concept monitors wearer’s cardiac health in real time They thought they had no chance. After all, most of the 150-plus competitors comprising 22 teams in last weekend’s Cleveland Medical Hackathon at the Global Center for Health Innovation downtown were health professionals with PhDs…

Envision applications in manufacturing, medicine and space A ÃÛÌÒAPP researcher has turned the origami she enjoyed as a child into a patent-pending soft robot that may one day be used on an assembly line, in surgery or even outer space. Kiju Lee, the Nord Distinguished…

What if eliminating physical pain was a matter of flipping a switch to block it? No drug needed. When it’s time to stop the block, just turn it off. Researchers at ÃÛÌÒAPP hope to eventually treat chronic or acute pain by using energy-based neuromodulation technology. The…

Some of the body’s own genetic material, known as small interfering RNA (siRNA), can be packaged and then unleashed as a precise and persistent technology to guide cell behavior, researchers at ÃÛÌÒAPP report in the current issue of the journal, Acta Biomaterialia. The…