Category: New products
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Brain Stimulation Shown to Slow Alzheimer’s Progression
A small-scale study shows an implanted device providing mild electrical stimulation to the brain’s frontal lobe slows the loss of cognitive functions from Alzheimer’s disease.
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Grants Made to Commercialize Bone, Cancer Research
A program supporting research with commercial potential awarded grants to scientists studying stem cells for bone grafts, treatments for melanoma, and protein therapies for cancer that change gene expression patterns.
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Energy Dept Grant Funding Poplar Tree Rust Study
A university-government biotechnology lab is studying the genomics of leaf rust, a fungus afflicting poplar trees, an emerging biofuel crop, with the goal of engineering resistance to the pathogen.
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Overlooked Drugs Show Promise Against Superbugs
A class of antibiotics first discovered in the 1970s, but passed by as new drugs came on the market, are getting a second look as the need intensifies for better weapons to treat infections resistant to most antibiotics.
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Nerve Stimulation Shown to Treat Cluster Headaches
A device that stimulates a collection of nerves located behind the nose was shown in a year-long study to lower intensity and frequency of cluster headaches, a condition marked by repeating episodes of severe pain.
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Vaccine Shown Effective Against Range of Flu Viruses
An experimental vaccine made with protein-infused nanoscale particles was shown to provide long-lasting protection in lab mice against a broad range of common influenza viruses.
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NIH Funding Immune-Friendly Synthetic Vascular Grafts
A bioengineering lab is receiving a National Institutes of Health grant to advance development of more tolerable synthetic veins and arteries implanted in heart bypass patients.
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Infographic – Artificial Intelligence in Smartphones
Our friends at Statista recently documented the leading ways artificial intelligence is used in smartphones, which is this weekend’s infographic.
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Stem Cells Created with Gene Editing
A research lab in San Francisco devised a simpler process for creating stem cells from skin cells in mice with the gene editing technique Crispr.
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Technique Developed for High-Speed Antibody Screening
A process is being developed to quickly discover antibodies in a person’s immune system that can also lead to new vaccines and drugs against viruses.