Month: December 2012
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FDA, Industry Group to Partner on Medical Device Regulation
The Food and Drug Administration will collaborate with LifeScience Alley, an industry association based in Minneapolis, in the Medical Device Innovation Consortium, to advance regulatory science for medical devices. Medical Device Innovation Consortium is expected to create scientific tools for assessing the safety and effectiveness of medical devices. The consortium has nine corporate members, including…
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Lasers, Nanoscale Bubbles Kill, Modify Diseased Cells
Researchers at Rice University in Houston developed a process using lasers and tiny gas bubbles to kill or modify diseased cells, without affecting neighboring cells. The team from the lab of biochemist Dmitri Lapotko published its findings online in a recent issue of the journal ACS Nano (paid subscription required). Lapotko, with research scientist and…
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Nanotech Lights Improve on Fluorescent, LED, CFL Bulbs
Physicists at Wake Forest University in North Carolina and Trinity College Dublin in Ireland developed a new type of electric lighting that improves on many of the current commercial and display lighting technologies. Professor David Carroll, director of Wake Forest’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, led the team that published its findings online in…
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Supreme Court to Take Gene Patents Case
The New York Times reports today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case about the ability of inventors to patent human genes. The case involves patent claims by Myriad Genetics, a developer of molecular diagnostics in Salt Lake City, that is being challenged by a group of physicians, scientists, and professional organizations. The suit…