Category: New products
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Inexpensive Eye Test Measures Pleasure Response to Food
Nutrionists at Drexel University in Philadelphia and St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York showed the ability of a routine ophthalmology test to indicate a high pleasure response to food, a potential tool for analyzing food addictions and obesity therapies. The team led by Drexel’s Jennifer Nasser published their findings online last week in the…
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Late-Stage Trial to Test Biosimilar Psoriasis Treatment
The Sandoz division of the global pharmaceutical company Novartis started a late stage clinical trial of a treatment for psoriasis biologically similar to the therapy etanercept, marketed by Amgen and Pfizer as Enbrel. The trial is expected to support the company’s application for regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe. Biosimilars is the name given…
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3-D Cellular-Level Brain Atlas and Database Developed
Neuroscientists at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine in Jülich, Germany, with colleagues from other institutes in Germany, developed a three-dimensional atlas of the brain, providing ultra-high resolution and the ability to zoom into different parts of the brain down to the cellular level. The team led by Alan Evans…
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Light-Enabled Nanoparticles Detect Early Infection Signs
Biomedical and genomic researchers at Duke University in North Carolina developed a technique with light and silver nanoparticles to detect infections earlier than when patients may even report symptoms. The team led by biomedical engineering professor Tuan Vo-Dinh and genomic medicine professor Geoffrey Ginsburg published its findings online in a recent issue of the journal…
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Energy-Efficient Process Devised to Convert CO2 to Methanol
Chemistry researchers at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada and Université de Toulouse in France developed a new process that converts carbon dioxide into the alternative fuel methanol in a single, more efficient step. The team led by Laval professor Frédéric-Georges Fontaine published its findings online earlier this month in the Journal of the American…
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Silver Improves Antibiotic Performance Against Bacteria
Researchers at Harvard University and Boston University found adding a silver compound to several types of antibiotics improved their performance against a range of bacterial infections in lab and animal tests. The team led by James Collins, a faculty member at both institutions, published its findings in this week’s issue of the journal Science Translational…
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3-D Printing, Computer Model Generate Synthetic Bone Matter
Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and the 3-D printing company Stratasys Ltd. in Billerica, Massachusetts developed a process that translates complex computer-designed models into bone and related organic composite materials with 3-D printing. The team led by MIT engineering professor Markus Buehler published its findings online yesterday in the journal Advanced Functional…
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Stem Cells Generate High-Quality Liver Cells for Drug Tests
Medical researchers at University of Edinburgh in Scotland created a process for inducing pluripotent stem cells to transform into liver cells with the same consistency and quality needed to test drugs for toxicity. A spin-off company from the university has also formed to take the research to market. The team led by Edinburgh’s David Hay…
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PET/MRI Scanning Technique Devised to Track 3-D Motion
Update, 25 July 2013. We learned today that Jinsong Ouyang at Mass General Hospital is the principal investigator on the project and led the research, not Chuan Huang, who presented the findings. Others working on the project include Jerome Ackerman, Yoann Petibon, Thomas Brady, and Georges El Fakhri. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard…
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National Lab Develops Solar Photosynthesis Testing Device
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California developed a device to test on a small scale electrochemical solar-energy conversion methods for future fuel cell and artificial photosynthesis technologies. The team led by Joel Ager and Rachel Segalman from the Berkeley Lab’s materials science division and Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis published its findings in…