New heart disease mechanism revealed: Next-generation targeted therapy shows benefit across mutation types

A study led by the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), working in collaboration with an ...

This tiny organism contracts 200 times faster than we can blink—here's how

A tiny, aquatic, single-celled organism can contract to one-quarter of its body length in less than 5 milliseconds—hundreds ...
IEEE

Launching of a Cyborg Locust via Co-Contraction Control of Hindleg Muscles

Abstract: Jumping is beneficial for microrobots because they have to face obstacles larger than their height frequently. However, compacting a jumping mechanism into the small body of a microrobot is ...
National Bureau of Economic Research

The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data

We build a publicly available database that tracks economic activity in the U.S. at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report weekly statistics on consumer ...
IEEE

Safe Control With Learned Certificates: A Survey of Neural Lyapunov, Barrier, and Contraction Methods for Robotics and Control

Abstract: Learning-enabled control systems have demonstrated impressive empirical performance on challenging control problems in robotics, but this performance comes at the cost of reduced ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)

Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is a combination of four congenital (present at birth) heart defects that affect infants and children. The defects occur together and change the way blood flows through the ...