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October 9, 2013

New strategy lets cochlear implant users hear music

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ scientists have developed a new way of processing the signals in cochlear implants to help users hear music better. The technique lets users perceive differences between musical instruments, a significant improvement from what standard cochlear implants can offer.

My HeartMap Seattle Challenge enlists the public to locate city’s life-saving devices

If you witness a heart attack, would you know where the nearest AED is? A Seattle contest will help pre-hospital emergency care leaders locate the city’s automatic external defibrillators, which can help restore normal heart rhythms and coach in CPR.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Medicine helps first patients sign up for Health Benefit Exchange

Yesterday was a historic day for health care coverage in the United States. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Medicine was ready to assist patients in signing up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, signed into law March 23, 2010.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineers invent programming language to build synthetic DNA

A team led by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has developed a programming language for chemistry that it hopes will streamline efforts to design a network that can guide the behavior of chemical-reaction mixtures in the same way that embedded electronic controllers guide cars, robots and other devices.

Mantas, devil rays butchered for apothecary trade now identifiable

Dried filters from the mouths of filter-feeding rays started appearing in apothecary shops in recent years, but there’s been no way to know which of these gentle-natured rays was being slaughtered. Now scientists have discovered enough differences to identify the giant manta and eight devil rays using the dried filters.

September 13, 2013

Neighborhoods and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ team up to measure diesel exhaust pollution in South Seattle

The residents of the Georgetown and South Park neighborhoods in Seattle’s Duwamish Valley now know how much diesel exhaust they are exposed to. A report on findings from an air pollution study comparing these neighborhoods to Beacon Hill and Queen Anne was published today, Sept. 13.

September 11, 2013

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineers to make cookstoves 10 times cleaner for developing world

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineers have received a $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to design a better cookstove, which researchers say will use half as much fuel and cut emissions by 90 percent.

September 10, 2013

New Sports Medicine Center at Husky Stadium is a game-changer for all athletes

This week the newest Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Medicine Sports Medicine Center opened its doors to the community at Husky Stadium. A public open house is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 19.