Category: New products
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Platelet Transfusion System Trial Shows Favorable Results
Cerus Corporation in Concord, California says a multi-year trial of its INTERCEPT-treated platelet components conducted at the Red Cross Blood Center in Basel, Switzerland had a successful outcome. The INTERCEPT Blood System is a treatment designed to protect against transfusion-transmitted diseases. The open label study — where patients and researchers know which drug is being…
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Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Robotic Ultrasound
InSightec Ltd., an Israeli developer of magnetic resonance-guided ultrasound technology, says that its ExAblate system has been used for the first time for the treatment of prostate cancer patients. Seven patients with localized low-risk prostate cancer were treated so far at the N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and at the…
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Trial Shows Drug Reduces Lactic Acid in Trauma Patients
Results from a proof-of-concept clinical trial of the drug MP4OX in severely injured trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock showed that MP4OX, when given in addition to standard of care, was effective at decreasing lactate levels in treated patients. MP4OX is an oxygen therapeutic agent that is designed to provide rapid oxygen delivery to tissues with…
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Nanoscale Silicon Oxide Circuits Break Memory Barrier
Rice University scientists in Houston, Texas have created the first two-terminal memory silicon chips that can be manufactured with nanoelectronic techniques and promise to extend the limits of miniaturization subject to Moore’s Law, which states the number of devices on a circuit doubles every 18 to 24 months. Professor James Tour initially showed how electrical…
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USDA Research Leads to Commercial Stinging Insect Trap
Wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets will spoil any summer barbeque or picnic, but they also pose a serious threat to agriculture field workers, particularly at harvest time. Research by scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has led to development of a trap that protects picnickers…
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Clinical Trial of Heart Failure Drug Underway Soon
Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, today announced the start of clinical trial of its lead drug candidate, CXL-1020, for the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). The trial will help define proper dosing for the drug. Cardioxyl’s placebo-controlled phase 2-a trial will take place in as many as 20 sites in…
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Study Shows Vision Restored with Biosynthetic Corneas
A two-year clinical study by biotech company FibroGen, located in San Francisco, California, shows surgical implantation of biosynthetic corneas can restore vision and promote nerve regeneration in patients who had corneal damage and significant vision loss. The findings are published in the 25 August issue of Science Translational Medicine. The biosynthetic corneas were made of…
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New Process Produces Iron Without the CO2
Stuart Licht, a professor of chemistry at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C., has developed a carbon dioxide-free method of producing iron that uses solar energy and a process of solar conversion. Licht has patented this process, called Solar Thermal Electrochemical Photo (STEP) energy conversion, which offers an alternative to the same basic polluting…
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H1N1 Drug Gets Positive Results in Preclinical Tests
AVI BioPharma Inc. of Bothell, Washington reported positive results from two preclinical studies evaluating the therapeutic potential of its drug AVI-7100 against a fully virulent pandemic H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu. The results showed statistically significant reductions in average viral titer — a quantitative measure of biological activity in a recombinant virus —…
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Wireless Technology To Test Ford E-vehicle Batteries
Ford Motor Company has built a monitoring system for lab and field tests of its electric vehicle batteries, using wireless Internet technology. The system collects real-time performance data with sensors on the vehicles’ lithium-ion batteries and transmits the data via Internet links to a secure server for access by Ford engineers. The company says new…