Pandemic Timeline

Month: November 2020

Johns Hopkins researchers introduce “Theragrippers”

Inspired by a parasitic worm, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Engineering team up to design “theragrippers” to deliver medicine to GI tract. Problem: extended-release drugs pass too quickly thru GI tract. Solution: Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Engineering design dust-sized machines that snap to colonic walls and release medicine gradually. Once…

Patent US11107588: Methods and systems of prioritizing treatments, vaccination, testing and/or activities while protecting the privacy of individuals

System and methods for anonymously selecting subjects for treatment against an infectious disease caused by a pathogen. The system comprises a plurality of electronic devices comprising instructions to generate an ID and, when in proximity of another such electronic device, one or both electronic devices transmit/receive the ID to/from the other electronic device. Then, a…