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Diabetic skin ulcers often take a long time to heal, sometimes even leading to complications that result in amputation. A new hydrogel is designed to help keep that from happening, by delivering oxygen directly to such wounds.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Hydrogel produces oxygen to help heal chronic wounds
A lot of projects we feature on these pages are of the “one and done” variety — tactical builds that serve a specific purpose with little need for further development. …read more Continue reading Design Improvements Make DIY Oxygen Concentrator Even Better
Most of us have at some point in our busy lives wished there were more hours in the day. That wish actually came true billions of years ago as the Earth’s rotation slowed down – and now a new study hypothesizes that this is why we have so much oxygen n… Continue reading How the Moon, microbes and longer days may have given us more oxygen
New research published in the journal PLOS Biology is describing the discovery of a link between cognitive decline and a protein in red blood cells. The research found mice depleted of this protein suffered from rapid cognitive decline, and a potential… Continue reading Age-related cognitive decline may be linked to key blood cell protein
Some of the most devastating health effects of a stroke or heart attack are caused by oxygen deprivation in the brain. Now, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have identified an enzyme that may naturally protect the brain from oxygen d… Continue reading New potential drug target may protect brain against low oxygen damage
Scientists have made the surprising discovery that some mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines. The team experimented by administering oxygen enemas in a gas or liquid form to mice, rats and pigs, and found that they could survive much long… Continue reading Emergency oxygen enemas could help us “breathe” through our intestines
Back at the start of the pandemic, a variety of hacker designs for life-saving machinery may have pushed the boundaries of patient safety. There are good reasons that a ventilator …read more Continue reading Building An Oxygen Concentrator: It Isn’t Rocket Science
Join us on Wednesday, May 5 at noon Pacific for the Open-Source Oxygen Hack Chat with Maher Daoudi and the OxiKit Team! In such tumultuous times, it may be hard …read more Continue reading Open-Source Oxygen Hack Chat
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has notched up another first by extracting oxygen from the Martian atmosphere. On April 20, 2021, the toaster-sized Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) converted carbon dioxide into about 5.4 grams… Continue reading Perseverance makes oxygen on Mars for the first time
Advances in electronics, sensor technology and wireless communications are converging to open up some exciting possibilities in monitoring the human body from the inside, from sensors that track the status of orthopedic implants to gas-detecting device… Continue reading Ladybug-sized implant tracks oxygen levels in deep body tissues