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Turning brain scanning on its head with smaller MRIs

Ben Parkinson (right) and Konstantinos Bouloukakis working on a helmet-style MRI magnet (half-scale version), developed as part of the KiwiNet Emerging Innovator Programme
Wellington researcher Ben Parkinson has received a boost from KiwiNet to help commercialise his game-changing compact superconducting magnets for smaller, next-generation, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems.
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NZ AI can predict retinal and eye diseases

NZ AI can predict retinal and eye diseases
New Zealand-designed artificial intelligence framework MedicMind which enables the development and design of AI without coding has been used to develop an advance set of algorithms to detect a range of common eye diseases. Findings are published on Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. The Dunedin-based research was part of an initiative to tackle growing ageing population and degenerative eye diseases, oDocs Eye Care director Dr Hong Sheng Chiong says. A total of 4435 images were used for developing the artificial intelligence and its underlying algorithm. The average accuracy was 80 percent, with sensitivity of 75 percent and specificity of 89 percent.…

  • Source A MakeLemonade release
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ResMed notches up win over F&P Healthcare in latest patent dispute

23 Oct:  1151 | The Munich Regional Court has found Fisher & Paykel Healthcare breached a patent held by rival ResMed

  • Source/ReadMore A Fisher&Paykel Healthcare release
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World-leading Canterbury physicist wins Innovation Medal

Professor Butler and the MARS scanner is attached. Photo: University of Canterbury.
Internationally respected Physics Professor Phil Butler has been announced as the 2018 recipient of the University of Canterbury (UC) Innovation Medal, the highest award the University can bestow to an outstanding innovator.

  • Source A University of Canterbury release
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New study links common herbicides and antibiotic resistance

New study links common herbicides and antibiotic resistance
A new study finds that bacteria develop antibiotic resistance up to 100,000 times faster when exposed to the world’s most widely used herbicides, Roundup (glyphosate) and Kamba (dicamba) and antibiotics compared to without the herbicide.

  • Source A University of Canterbury release
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UC Connect public lecture on revolutionary 3D colour X-ray for medicine

UC Connect public lecture on revolutionary 3D colour X-ray for medicine
Invented in Christchurch, the MARS spectral x-ray scanner will revolutionise medical imaging globally, and the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer and heart disease, because it provides far greater detail of the body’s chemical components.

  • Source A University of Canterbury release
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NZ start-up set to disrupt $40b industry

A handheld device which can generate quicker and more accurate results for substances such as recreational drugs is being developed in Wellington. Photo: Supplied
A Wellington-based start-up is poised to disrupt a $40 billion antibodies industry by creating a faster, cheaper and humane way of testing for substances reports Farah Hancock for Newsroom.

  • Source/ReadMore Newsroom with Farah Hancock
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PharmaZen posts record 1H profit; reaps benefit from investments

PharmaZen, a manufacturer of plant and animal-based health supplements, turned to a record first-half profit as it reaped the benefit of earlier investments

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MIT engineers create low-cost prosthetic foot that approximates natural gait

MIT engineers create low-cost prosthetic foot that approximates natural gait
Engineers from Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMIT have developed a streamlined prosthetic foot that lets wearers walk with a fluid motion, and can be manufactured at a low cost.

  • Source/ReadMore A de Zeen release
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Creso Pharma launches product into New Zealand

Listed cannabis company Creso Pharma is set to launch its chronic pain product into the New Zealand market after signing an agreement with a key distributor.

  • Source Business News Australia
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Give me skin! The NZ company growing new skin for burn victims

A Kiwi biotechnology company which has found a way to grow bigger-than-A5 sheets of replacement human skin says the product might be ready to start clinical trials on burn patients in 2020 or 2021

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Everyone starts life with about 30,000 days

Sir Ray Avery reckons we all start life with 30,000 days. By his calculation he has 4795 left so there is still a chance for him to leave a legacy from the whole country, he reckons

  • Source/ReadMore NZHerald
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Palace of the Alhambra Spain

Palace of the Alhambra, Spain

By: Charles Nathaniel Worsley (1862-1923)

From the collection of Sir Heaton Rhodes

Oil on canvas - 118cm x 162cm

Valued $12,000 - $18,000

Offers invited over $9,000

Contact:  Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242

Henry@HeritageArtNZ.com

 

Mount Egmont with Lake

Mount Egmont with Lake 

By: John Philemon Backhouse (1845-1908)

Oil on Sea Shell - 13cm x 14cm

Valued $2,000-$3,000

Offers invited over $1,500

Contact:  Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242

Henry@HeritageArtNZ.com

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