Month: July 2014
-
Panel: Federal Science Cuts Hurt U.S. Competitiveness
9 July 2014. A panel of research executives from 10 universities in the U.S. told of the harmful impact of Federal spending cuts on science in the past few years, which the panelists said reduces the country’s ability to compete in world markets. The roundtable discussion at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. was…
-
DARPA Funding Development of Brain Implants to Boost Memory
9 July 2014. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, is awarding grants to two universities and a national lab to develop devices for implanting in the brain that can sense and restore memory loss. Research agreements totaling $40 million were designated for University of California in Los Angeles,…
-
Virtual Reality System Developed to Track Crowd Moves
8 July 2014. A psychology research group at Brown University in Providence is using virtual reality to detect and document patterns of autonomous individuals taking part in crowds. The system developed by Brown’s Virtual Environment Navigation lab was described last week by its director William Warren in a keynote address at a meeting of the…
-
NIH Funds $24 Million for Genetic Links to Alzheimer’s
8 July 2014. National Institutes of Health is awarding $24 million to eight academic medical centers for research on genomic factors behind people developing or avoiding Alzheimer’s disease. Recipients of the four-year grants are Boston University, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Columbia University in New York, University of Miami, University of Pennsylvania, University of…
-
Personal Leukemia Immunotherapy Given Breakthrough Status
7 July 2014. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration designated as a breakthrough a personalized immunotherapy developed by University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia that does not respond to other treatments or has relapsed. FDA assigns a breakthrough designation and accelerates review of drugs or biologic therapies that treat a serious…
-
Nanotech Technique Devised for Real-Time Intestinal Images
7 July 2014. Biomedical engineers from University at Buffalo in New York developed a non-invasive technique making it possible to capture live images to diagnose and care for diseases of the small intestine. The team led by Buffalo professor Jonathan Lovell — with colleagues from Buffalo and universities in Wisconsin, Canada, and Korea — published…
-
Happy Fourth of July
Science & Enterprise is celebrating today’s Independence Day holiday in the U.S., and will return to regular posting on Monday, 7 July. Enjoy your day or holiday, as the case may be. * * *
-
Big Data Quickly Identify Foodborne Illness Sources
3 July 2014. Data analysts and public health experts at the IBM research center in San Jose, California developed techniques for faster identification of sources of foodborne diseases from available public health and retail sales data. The team led by IBM’s James Kaufman, the company’s public health research manager, published its findings today online in…
-
Trial: Insulin Pumps Better Control Glucose Than Injections
3 July 2014. An international clinical trial shows insulin pumps worn by people with type 2 diabetes do a better job of controlling blood glucose levels than multiple daily injections of insulin, the usual control treatment. Results from the post-marketing study funded by Medtronic Inc., a medical device developer in Minneapolis that makes insulin pumps,…
-
University Offers Tuberculosis Drug Technology for Licensing
2 July 2014. A new process for developing drugs for tuberculosis designed at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, is offered for licensing by the university to companies for commercialization. The technology that aims to overcome resistance to many current tuberculosis drugs is the result of research from the lab of Zurich pharmaceutical…