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Healthy Economy homestories Uncategorized

Robots for the Real World

A new institute takes on the ethics, economics and policies of robotics

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Healthy Planet

Drug Test

By some estimates, a third to half of the artesunate, an anti-malarial drug, in some countries is counterfeit. The World Health Organization has called for faster, more accurate tests, and now a team of Oregon State University chemists has stepped up with an innovative approach.

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Healthy People Innovation

24/7 Checkup

A new chapter in high-tech medicine is being written by electrical engineers at Oregon State University.

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Earth Healthy Planet Stewardship Student Research

Cyberforest Unplugged

An interdisciplinary team of OSU students spent 10 weeks this summer scaling the steep slopes of H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest to enable researchers to unplug their high-tech gear — the sensors they use to study the ebb and flow of carbon-laden air through old-growth and second-growth landscapes.