Tag: physical sciences
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Emergency Sealant Gel Developed for Eye Injuries
A medical engineering team created a gel material that safely closes injured eye tissue until surgical treatments can be given.
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Cell Programming Company Raises $49.5M in Early Funds
A start-up enterprise creating add-on treatments that program the effects of cell and gene therapies is raising $49.5 million in its first venture funding round.
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Programmable Nanoscale Drug Capsules Designed
A lab at University of Connecticut is developing nanoscale capsules that release drug cargoes only when encountering specific enzymes, even inside cells.
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FDA Clears Smart Watch EKG Device
The Food and Drug Administration approved an electrocardiogram, or EKG device, designed to work with Apple smart watches, according to AliveCor, developer of the device.
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RNA Injections Shown to Rebuild Damaged Heart Muscle
Engineers and medical researchers developed a technique to deliver genetic material into damaged heart muscle that in lab mice regrows heart cells.
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Protein Made by Synthetic Bacteria with Expanded DNA
An academic-industry lab team produced a synthetic protein from an engineered bacteria, with DNA modified to expand its number of chemical coding components.
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Marine Animal Venom Studied for Pain Drugs
A medical research team is investigating the chemistry in venom from snail-like marine animals to discover natural alternative drugs for pain.
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Artificial Muscles Designed for Soft Robotics
Engineering researchers created artificial muscles for robotics using principles from origami, or Japanese paper folding, with high strength and low-cost materials.
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Trial to Test Ultrasound/MRI for Brain Cancer
A developer of a technology that combines ultrasound and MRI scans plans to begin a clinical trial of its techniques to improve delivery of drugs to treat a form of brain cancer.
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Will We Live To See Mars Colonized?
Humanity has overcome some pretty steep odds in the past, so who knows. Is colonizing Mars actually viable?