KNOXVILLE — Jimmy Mays, a chemistry professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has developed a substance that promises to replace conventional rubber in many products with something that is stronger, greener and easier to recycle. Now he’s joining forces with the College of Business Administration’s Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to turn his (read more)
Inventions & Patents
UT Technology To Help Detect Deadly Disease
A group of researchers at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine in Knoxville has created technology that provides non-invasive detection of amyloidosis, a disease known to occur in Type 2 diabetes, myeloma, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer’s and other fatal or debilitating diseases. Currently there is no detection for amyloidosis available in the U.S., and (read more)
UT Researchers Develop Comprehensive, Accessible Vision Testing Device
Eighty-five percent of children’s learning is related to vision. Yet in the U.S., 80 percent of children have never had an eye exam or any vision screening before kindergarten, statistics say. When they do, the vision screenings they typically receive can detect only one or two conditions. Three researchers at the University of Tennessee Space (read more)