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Carnegie Mellon University

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Robotics Institute Ph.D. student Akhil Padmanabha helped invent a wearable device that can objectively measure the intensity of scratching. Such a device could help researchers better evaluate the efficacy of medications meant to reduce itching.

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Carnegie Mellon University

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