Tag: physical sciences
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Genomics Company Acquires Open-Source Biomedical Platform
A company providing whole genome analysis is acquiring an enterprise developing open-source computational software for biomedical uses, such as precision medicine.
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University, Company Employ AI for Anti-Aging Drugs
The medical analytics company Insilico Medicine is partnering with a university in Denmark to apply artificial intelligence to find new treatments for diseases associated with early aging.
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Synthetic Beating Heart Repair Tissue Being Developed
A bioengineering team is developing a synthetic patch that contracts and sends electrical signals to repair heart muscle tissue after a heart attack.
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FDA Clears Algorithm-Assisted Cancer Diagnosis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared for marketing a diagnostics system aided by machine learning algorithms to help radiologists detect breast cancer.
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Exosuit Shown to Improve Walking for Stroke Patients
A robotic device built and worn like clothing helps improve lower-limb walking performance for a group of people partially paralyzed with stroke.
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Tough Ingested Hydrogels Designed for Long-Term Drugs
A medical engineering team developed and tested in animals a new water-based polymer material to deliver drugs for long-term release in the stomach.
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Takeda, Biosurfaces Partner on Nanofiber Devices
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company is joining with a developer of medical devices from nanoscale bioactive fibers to design new devices for gastrointestinal, or GI, disorders.
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Robot Designed to Grow into Shapes, Spaces
Engineering researchers created a new type of robot that grows to extend its form into spaces like a vine, rather than move to different locations.
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Start-Up Building Mobile Apps Combining DNA, Lifestyle
A new enterprise in California is creating smartphone apps that provide lifestyle advice based on DNA analysis and activity tracking.
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Patent Awarded for Exosome Capture Process
A company making blood filtering devices was awarded a patent for a process to capture tiny particles carrying proteins that suppress immune responses.