Tag: university
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Univ. Spin-Off Developing Long-Lasting Diabetes Drug
A company spun-off from a University at Buffalo biochemistry lab is the recipient of a small business grant to design a once-a-week drug for people with type 2 diabetes to control their blood sugar and weight.
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Cancer T-Cell Start-Up Gains $150 Million in IPO
A three year-old company developing treatments for cancer with engineered T-cells from the immune system raised $150 million in its initial public offering of common stock.
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Process Devised for Renewable, Biodegradable Plastic
A chemistry lab developed a process for economically producing a polymer material from renewable sources that could replace some plastics now derived from petroleum.
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Electrodes for Implants 3-D Printed on Soft Materials
An engineering team produced with an ink-jet printer working electrodes like those used in medical implants on bio-friendly soft materials rather than metal or silicon.
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Company Claims High Speeds, Resolution in 3-D Printed Tissue
A company developing a three-dimensional printing technology to produce human tissue says it can produce tissue with higher resolution, including blood vessels, and higher speeds than before.
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$3.4M NIH Grant Funding New ALS Treatments
A biotechnology company is receiving a grant from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to advance its experimental treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
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UC-Berkeley Gains U.S. Crispr-Cas9 Patent
University of California received a patent for its genome editing technology known as Crispr, with the most widely used editing enzyme called Cas9.
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Brain Stimulation Shown to Restore Limb Mobility in Stroke
Mild electronic stimulation to specific brain regions is shown to restore upper limb movements in lab animals induced with stroke, with similar brain signals in humans also identified as targets.
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Biotech, Institute Partner on Gut Microbe Links to Parkinson’s
18 June 2018. Researchers from a biotechnology company and a research institute are starting a joint project to find treatments for Parkinson’s disease targeting bacteria in the gut. Financial and intellectual property aspects of the partnership between Axial Biotherapeutics Inc. in Boston, and Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center in Sunnyvale, California were not disclosed. The…
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115M Euro Grant for Precision Medicine, Trials in Autism
A new initiative in Europe is investigating the connection between a person’s molecular composition and autism, particularly when other disorders complicate that individual’s condition.