Month: January 2018
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Continuous Flow Manufacturing In Space Station Test
Among the experiments carried to the International Space Station in mid-December is a test of continuous separations of one liquid from another, used in drug and chemical manufacturing.
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Highly Targeted Opioid Designed to Avoid Side Effects
A pharmacology team decoded complex opioid proteins in the brain to design a compound that can relieve pain, but avoid the dangerous adverse effects causing addiction and overdoses.
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Investing In The Future Of Technology
Knowing where to put your money is hard, as the changes in this industry are incredibly rapid, and new trends are appearing all the time.
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Biotech, Microsoft Partner on Immune System Diagnostics
A company that analyzes immune system genomics is collaborating with Microsoft Corporation to develop early-stage disease diagnostics.
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Electronic Pulses, Sounds Shown to Reduce Tinnitus
A non-invasive system that combines coordinated electronic pulses and sounds is shown in tests with lab animals and humans to reduce tinnitus, phantom sounds often called ringing in the ears.
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How Going Green Could Help Your Business
Going green in this fashion within your business will not only help the environment but it will stand to help your business.
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Sangamo, Pfizer Partner on ALS Gene Therapy
Drug maker Pfizer Inc. is licensing and collaborating on a gene therapy technology from Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and a related neurodegenerative disease.
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RNA Therapies Start-Up Raises $55.3M in Early Funds
A start-up company creating treatments for inherited diseases that target faulty RNA transcribed from genetic codes is raising $55.3 million in its first venture funding round.
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NIH Grant Funds Synthetic Peptide for Severe Asthma
A synthetic peptide, a short chain of amino acids, is being developed as a treatment for severe cases of asthma that do not respond to conventional drugs.
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Techniques Devised to Speed-Up Plant Breeding
Plant scientists in Australia and the U.K. developed a process that sharply cuts the amount of time needed to produce new breeds of plant crops including commercial varieties of wheat.