Tag: entrepreneurs
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Start-Up Licenses Children’s Myopia-Control Contact Lens
A start-up enterprise spun-off from Hong Kong Polytechnic University is licensing the technology for a customized contact lens that controls and prevents further myopia in children.
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Institute Using Software to Boost Results Reproducibility
A genomics research lab in the U.K. is adding software to automate data collection that its developer says can improve the productivity of scientists and reproducibility of their findings.
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Small Business Grant Advances Drug Safety Test System
An award from National Institutes of Health is advancing a technology for testing the safety of drugs with heart muscle cells derived from stem cells before the drugs are tested on humans.
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Medical Tech, Phone App Companies Partner on Wound Care
A company making wound care products is collaborating with a developer of mobile apps and analytics to design a more advanced diagnostics system for wounds.
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HIV Drugs Formulated Into Once-Weekly Capsules
Medical and engineering researchers developed and tested in pigs a technique for packing several drugs into a capsule taken once a week to prevent and treat HIV infections.
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Genomic Analysis Company Adds Body Composition Profiles
A company analyzing genomics and microbiome factors to extend human life spans is adding an evaluation of body composition to its tool kit.
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Ingestible Sensors Measure Gases in Stomach, Gut
Researchers in Australia created a sensing device packed in a standard-size drug capsule that measures gas concentrations in the digestive tract in real time.
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Celgene Acquires Cancer Drug Start-Up in $7B Deal
The biopharmaceutical company Celgene Corp. is acquiring Impact Biomedicines Inc., a developer of drugs to treat a type of blood-related cancer, in a deal valued as much as $7 billion.
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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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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.