Month: February 2014
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Samsung, UCSF to Partner on Mobile Health Care Technologies
21 February 2014. University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) and Samsung Electronics Company are establishing a lab to develop and test new mobile technologies in health care. Financial and intellectual property arrangements for the new UCSF-Samsung Digital Health Innovation Lab were not disclosed. UCSF says mobile health technologies have not yet reached their potential…
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Vanderbilt, Records Company Partner on Clinical Data Network
21 February 2014. Greenway Medical Technologies in Carrollton, Georgia and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville are creating a clinical records data network to cover the mid-South region in the U.S. Greenway is a developer of electronic medical and health records. The 18-month project, funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), has a…
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Artificial Muscle Created from Fishing Line, Thread Material
20 February 2014. An international team of materials scientists and engineers developed high-strength artificial muscles from materials found into ordinary fishing line and sewing thread. The consortium from University of Texas in Dallas, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues from China, Turkey, Australia, and Korea published their findings today in the journal…
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Fox Foundation Proposes Improving Trial Patient Recruitment
20 February 2014. Research managers at the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research in New York propose improvements in practices for recruiting patients for clinical trials to reduce obstacles that delay or even prevent trials from happening. The team led by Fox Foundation vice president Sohini Chowdhury presents its ideas in this month’s issue…
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New Clinical Trial Testing Drug for Huntington’s Disease
19 February 2014. Omeros Corporation in Seattle began an intermediate-stage clinical trial testing its compound code-named OMS824 to treat symptoms of Huntington’s disease. The company says it’s administering the first doses in the trial, which is expected to enroll 120 patients. Huntington disease is an inherited disorder in which nerve cells in certain parts of…
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Chip Designed to Capture Images Inside Heart, Blood Vessels
19 February 2014. Engineers at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta designed and lab-tested a microscopic chip to create real-time, three-dimensional images from inside the heart and blood vessels. The team led by mechanical engineering professor Levent Degertekin, with colleagues from Georgia Tech and Istanbul Technical University in Turkey, published its findings in this month’s issue of…
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UCLA Starts Crowdfunding Platform for Research, Service
18 February 2014. University of California at Los Angeles today started a crowdfunding platform to finance research and service projects by faculty and students. The platform, called UCLA Spark, began with five appeals including research projects in engineering and public health. Crowdfunding, according to the technology Web site Mashable, “describes the collective effort of individuals who…
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FDA Speeds Lymph Node Detector Review for Head/Neck Cancer
18 February 2014. Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Inc. in Dublin, Ohio, says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is giving the company’s diagnostic agent Lymphoseek priority review for detecting the spread of head and neck cancers to lymph nodes. FDA granted the accelerated review as part of its acceptance of Navidea’s supplemental new drug application to expand…
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Alan Alda to Scientists: “Tell Me a Story”
16 February 2014. Alan Alda told scientists and colleagues that researchers need to change the way they communicate with non-scientists, to emphasize the stories behind their work, and in personal terms. The award-winning actor, writer, and director gave these words of advice at yesterday’s plenary session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science…
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Golden Goose Highlights Bipartisan Support for Basic Science
15 February 2014. Research on black holes in space by a University of Illinois physicist led to development of an early Web browser on which much of today’s browsers are based. That physicist, Larry Smarr, now at University of California in San Diego, is the first 2014 winner of the Golden Goose award to recognize…