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Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have been given $2.1 million (£1.3 million), which could help those suffering from brain injury.

The Advanced Technology/Therapeutic Development Award, granted by the US Department of Defense, will be used to develop the next generation of brain monitors.

If successful, pioneering "lab on a tube" technology will provide constant brain monitoring of patients with brain injury as well as performing other jobs, such as draining cerebrospinal fluid.

This multitasking device will monitor seven different parameters of the brain: intracranial pressure, temperature, brain oxygenation, cerebral blood flow, EEG, cerebral lactate and glucose.

The groundbreaking procedure would require just one catheter to be placed in the brain, through a hole in the skull.

Jed Hartings, research assistant professor in the department of neurosurgery at the UC College of Medicine, spoke of his excitement at being able to make advances through the monitoring of the changing physiology of the recovering brain.

"There will be huge databases generated by these parameters - some of which we already know what to do with, and some of which we need to gain more experience with," he said.

The award is used to further scientific research which could help injured troops. The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research also received part of the grant to further its research into brain monitoring.

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