Month: October 2016
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3-D Printing Creates Heart-on-Chip with Sensors
Biomedical engineers at Harvard University developed a programmable and automated process for creating miniature organs on chips with integrated sensors using 3-D printing.
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On the Road Again
We’ll be traveling for the rest of the week, so Science & Enterprise will not have any posts tomorrow or Friday.
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Biotech, Novartis Partner on Rare Metabolic Diseases
A biotechnology start-up enterprise using genome editing for drug discovery is collaborating with drug maker Novartis on rare metabolic disorders.
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Virtual Reality Game in Development for Vision Disorder
An engineering lab at New Jersey Institute of Technology is creating a virtual reality therapy game to treat children with binocular vision dysfunction.
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Mobile Multichannel Biomarker Detector Designed
An engineering lab designed a portable testing device connected to a smartphone that can analyze multiple specimen samples for a leading cancer biomarker.
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Start-Up to Commercialize New Parkinson’s Treatment
Mavalon Therapeutics, a new company in the U.K., is being formed to bring a treatment to market that stops the progression of Parkinson’s disease.
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Clinical Trial Network for Lupus Formed
A network of medical researchers is being assembled to conduct clinical trials to test new therapies for lupus and drugs approved for other disorders that may also treat the disease.
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Commercial Genome Service Launches Based on Open Data
A start-up software company is offering genetic analysis services for research and precision medicine that comply with open standards and access Google’s genomic data sets.
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Trial Testing Retina Cell Implants for Glaucoma
A new clinical trial is testing implants to treat glaucoma made of genetically engineered retina cells that release hormones promoting optic nerve growth.
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Sweat Sensor Devised for Blood Glucose Measurement
A bioengineering lab at University of Texas in Dallas developed a miniature biosensor device that measures blood glucose levels from a person’s perspiration.