Month: September 2018
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Umbilical Cord Grafts Shown to Heal Foot Ulcers
Results from a clinical trial show skin grafts made from dehydrated human umbilical cord tissue heal more diabetic foot ulcers than alginate dressings, a common treatment for the condition.
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Synthetic Antibody Neutralizing Gluten in Development
An academic-business team is developing a synthetic antibody to prevent gluten found in some grains from affecting the intestines of people with celiac disease, an intolerance of gluten.
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Next Steps For Your Business — The Options To Consider
If you have your business and it has moved on from those early days, you may be wondering what is the next step for you and your company?
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Algorithms Advance Assistive Control for Spinal Cord Injury
A system to control movements of an assistive sleeve is shown in lab tests to enable a person with no use of his arms and legs due to spinal cord injury to accurately grasp and release objects.
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Liquid Biopsy for Solid Tumors Now Available
A test that inspects a patient’s blood sample for characteristic indicators of solid-tumor cancer, and can be part of a comprehensive precision analytics program, is now on the market.
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Homemade or Pro — Ways to Make a Logo
A lot of people struggle for a long time to get this right, even with all of the tools available to make it easier.
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Infographic — “Wearables” Means Worn on Wrist
The term “wearables” in most cases means a device worn on the wrist.
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Image is (Almost) Everything — Social Media Images Support Messaging
To make social media work, businesses need to engage their audiences, and that requires engaging the psyches of audiences in multiple ways.
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Spin-Off Company Developing New Antibiotics
A start-up enterprise in the U.K. is commercializing research from a university lab that discovered a new class of antibiotics promising to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections.
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App Offers Fast, Inexpensive Urinary Tract Infection Test
A system for identifying bacterial infections shows the system’s smartphone app and accompanying lab kit can detect urinary tract infections, including those with sepsis, in about an hour.