Category: New products
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Electronic Pulses, Sounds Shown to Reduce Tinnitus
A non-invasive system that combines coordinated electronic pulses and sounds is shown in tests with lab animals and humans to reduce tinnitus, phantom sounds often called ringing in the ears.
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RNA Therapies Start-Up Raises $55.3M in Early Funds
A start-up company creating treatments for inherited diseases that target faulty RNA transcribed from genetic codes is raising $55.3 million in its first venture funding round.
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NIH Grant Funds Synthetic Peptide for Severe Asthma
A synthetic peptide, a short chain of amino acids, is being developed as a treatment for severe cases of asthma that do not respond to conventional drugs.
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Techniques Devised to Speed-Up Plant Breeding
Plant scientists in Australia and the U.K. developed a process that sharply cuts the amount of time needed to produce new breeds of plant crops including commercial varieties of wheat.
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Trial Testing Biomarkers as Brain Injury Diagnostics
A clinical trial is underway in Finland testing the ability to detect traumatic brain injuries with simple blood, urine, and saliva tests.
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Microneedle Patch Delivers Anti-Obesity Drugs
A skin patch containing hundreds of tiny porous needles is shown in lab mice to deliver drugs that turn ordinary body fat into calorie-burning brown fat to reduce body mass.
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Audio-Brain Stimulation Shown to Reduce PTSD Symptoms
A clinical trial shows a non-invasive technique that translates and feeds back brain waves as audio tones reduces PTSD symptoms in current and former military personnel for 6 months.
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Retinal Scanner Detects Early Vision Problems
A Canadian engineering lab designed a retinal scanner that helps diagnose eye diseases in their early stages, often well before vision loss occurs.
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Phone Sensors Shown to Monitor Chemotherapy Effects
21 December 2017. A group of cancer patients was able to monitor the severity of effects of their chemotherapy with built-in sensors on smartphones and fitness trackers. Results of the clinical study, led by researchers at University of Pittsburgh, appear in the 19 December issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research. The team from Pittsburgh’s…
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Super High-Resolution Photo Sensor Developed
Engineers at Dartmouth College developed a sensor that captures light signals at high speed and resolution down to the level of individual photons.