Tag: life sciences
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Companies Deploy Blockchain for Food Safety, Tracking
A company offering food and animal safety services is applying blockchain technologies to boost its livestock and food tracking capabilities.
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Skin Patch Senses Glucose, Emits Insulin as Needed
A bio-engineering team developed a small patch worn on the skin that in lab mice and pigs senses blood glucose levels and releases insulin when required.
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Intl Group Calls for More Coronavirus Vaccines
An international consortium issued a proposal call for more vaccines to protect against the novel coronavirus now spreading from China to the rest of the world.
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Univ. Licenses Therapeutic Hibernation Technology
University of Alaska is licensing research lab discoveries to a spin-off company to develop techniques to achieve a hibernation-type state in humans.
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FDA Approves Children’s Peanut Allergy Drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first treatment for children to reduce severe allergic reactions to peanuts.
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Crispr Company Raises $45M in Venture Funds
A spin-off enterprise from a pioneering Crispr research lab is raising $45 million in venture funds to develop diagnostics and other applications.
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Organoids Shown Not Developing Like Real Brains
Brain organoids, three-dimensional collections of brain cells grown from stem cells, are found in lab tests to not become fully functioning cells and tissue.
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FDA Clears A.I. Algorithms for Stethoscopes
Algorithms used in analytical software for digital stethoscopes to diagnose irregular heart rhythms received marketing clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Liquid Biopsy, A.I. Detect Four Cancers
A single blood test analyzed by machine learning is shown in tests with cancer patients to detect the presence of four types of solid tumor cancers.
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FDA Issues Draft, Final Gene Therapy Guidance
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued new draft guidance for reviewing gene therapies as orphan drugs for rare diseases.