Category: New products
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Little Data to Support Wearable Device Health Benefits
A review of published research since 2000 shows little evidence to support claims of beneficial health outcomes from the use of wearable devices like smart watches or wristbands, at least not yet.
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Nerve Stimulation Shown to Reduce Diabetes Symptoms
Electric stimulation of a key nerve pathway was shown in lab animals to restore insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance typically missing in people with type 2 diabetes.
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Components Designed to Improve Genetic Circuits
Researchers in Houston, Texas created a set of components like those in electronics that help make synthetic gene circuits more accurate and predictable.
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First MERS Virus Treatment Found Safe
An experimental treatment for Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, infections made from antibodies produced in cattle is shown in a clinical trial to be safe for patients.
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Stem Cell Patches Shown to Treat Heart Attack Damage
Human heart muscle patches made from stem cells helped fix damage and improve heart functions in tests with pigs induced with heart attacks.
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Neuro Informatics Software Released to Open Source
A collection of software from the Blue Brain Project for reconstructing models of mammal brain circuitry is being made freely available to the research community.
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HIV Drugs Formulated Into Once-Weekly Capsules
Medical and engineering researchers developed and tested in pigs a technique for packing several drugs into a capsule taken once a week to prevent and treat HIV infections.
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Ingestible Sensors Measure Gases in Stomach, Gut
Researchers in Australia created a sensing device packed in a standard-size drug capsule that measures gas concentrations in the digestive tract in real time.
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Continuous Flow Manufacturing In Space Station Test
Among the experiments carried to the International Space Station in mid-December is a test of continuous separations of one liquid from another, used in drug and chemical manufacturing.
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Highly Targeted Opioid Designed to Avoid Side Effects
A pharmacology team decoded complex opioid proteins in the brain to design a compound that can relieve pain, but avoid the dangerous adverse effects causing addiction and overdoses.