Category: New products
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Breath Diagnostic Device Built on Common Computer Chip
A device acting like an electronic nose to analyze exhaled breath to diagnose disease is being developed at an engineering lab at University of Texas in Dallas.
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Engineered Facial Bone Grown from Stem Cells
Engineers developed techniques for growing personalized replacement facial bone from stem cells that in tests with pigs precisely fit their recipients’ faces.
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Graphene Chip Detects DNA, RNA Mutations
15 June 2016. A biomedical engineering team developed a chip built on graphene that detects mutations in genetic material, for eventual use in mobile diagnostics equipment. Researchers from University of California in San Diego, led by engineering professor Ratnesh Lal, describe their device this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Lal and…
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Process Devised to Quickly Isolate Bacteria in Lab Samples
10 June 2016. A biomedical engineering center at Harvard University developed a process for quickly isolating staph bacteria from clinical samples for lab testing. The team led by Donald Ingber, director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, published its findings earlier this week in the journal PLoS One. Ingber and colleagues…
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Antibody Treatment Shown to Prevent Migraine
9 June 2016. A clinical trial shows an engineered antibody in one week reduced the number of headaches in people who experienced migraines for an average of 18 years. Results of the study testing the experimental treatment appear in yesterday’s issue of the journal Neurology, published by American Academy of Neurology. Migraine is a neurological syndrome…
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FDA Clears Insomnia Relief Device
8 June 2016. A device that helps people with insomnia get to sleep without taking drugs received clearance for marketing in the U.S. from the Food and Drug Administration. The device, developed by the company Cerêve in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will require a prescription once it’s on the market in the U.S., expected in the second…
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Precision Medicine Shown to Boost Cancer Outcomes
7 June 2016. An analysis of results from early-stage clinical trials shows trials using treatments for cancer aimed at specific molecular targets had higher response rates and longer survival times than studies not using these targets. The team from University of California in San Diego, led by postdoctoral researcher Maria Schwaederlé, published its findings in…
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Blood Test Guides Depression Drug Decisions
7 June 2016. A blood test for two key biomarkers can identify drugs for depression that match an individual’s condition with the disease, thus improving chances of success. A team from the lab of psychological medicine professor Carmine Pariante at Kings College London published its findings yesterday in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. Pariante’s team,…
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Engineered T-Cells Get Leukemia Response
(6 June 2016) An early-stage clinical trial testing genetically engineered T-cells from the immune system, shows the treatments are effective against a form of leukemia when combined with chemotherapy drugs. Results of the trial were reported by study leader Jae Hong Park of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on 4 June at a meeting of…
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Biomaterials Solutions Studied for Chronic Wounds
3 June 2016. A team of materials and medical scientists is investigating a new process of applying protein-based biomaterials to the healing of chronic wounds. The research led by materials scientists Millicent Sullivan and Kristi Kiick at University of Delaware in Newark is funded by a 4 year, $1.4 million grant from National Institute of…