Category: New products
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Gut Tissue From Stem Cells Simulated on Organ Chips
Researchers created working human gut tissue cells derived from stem cells, grown on plastic chips simulating intestinal diseases, as a tool for testing effectiveness and safety of treatments before given to patients.
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Lab Burns Graphene Circuits into Food, Fabrics
A chemistry lab at Rice University devised a process for producing graphene, a material that conducts electricity, in materials containing carbon, including fabrics and even food.
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Engineered Virus Shows Promise in Some Brain Tumors
A clinical trial testing a common virus modified to generate a specific immune response dramatically reduced deadly brain tumors in a small group of patients and extended their survival for years, but most other patients had only limited success.
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Cardiac Augmented-Reality Hologram System in Development
A start-up company spun-off from Washington University in St. Louis was awarded a grant to advance an augmented reality system that displays an interactive hologram of a patient’s heart, to simplify cardiac procedures.
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Smart Thermometer Data Speed Flu Forecasting
Data collected from electronic thermometers are shown by researchers to track and report the spread of influenza cases in the U.S. faster than federal health authorities, as well as provide more up-to-date forecasts.
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Low Carb Diet, Biomarker Tracking Help Reverse Diabetes
A combination of low-carbohydrate diet, with close monitoring of health indicators and coaching via a mobile app are shown in a clinical trial to reverse type 2 diabetes, including reductions in medication and insulin therapy.
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Personal Brain Stimulation Shown to Boost Memory
A team of psychologists and neuroscientists developed techniques for monitoring and electrically stimulating key parts of the brain, personalized to each individual, which in tests show can improve a person’s memory.
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FDA Approves Wearable Epilepsy Seizure Detector
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a device worn like a wristwatch that uses a machine-learning algorithm to detect convulsive seizures in people with epilepsy.
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Texas Vaccine Center Expanding R&D
A vaccine research center in Galveston, Texas is expanding its operations to add more basic and preclinical studies that lead to clinical trials resulting in more preventive and therapeutic vaccines.
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Brain Wave Data Harnessed for Open-Source Brain Model
A lab in Germany created a technique for discovering a person’s neurological patterns from brain waves captured with a headset and simulated with population-wide brain data run on open-source software.