Tag: physical sciences
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Glaxo Using Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery
Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is hiring a company that applies artificial intelligence for drug discovery and design to identify new small-molecule compounds for up to 10 disease targets.
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Nerve Stimulation Approved for Children’s Epilepsy
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved use of vagus nerve stimulation to treat epilepsy in children who do not respond to drug therapy as young as 4 years old.
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NIH Funds Nanotech Tools for Cancer, Blood Clots
A bioengineering lab is receiving awards from National Institutes of Health to apply nanotechnology to treatments for breast cancer and diagnostics for deep vein blood clots.
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Simple, Inexpensive Pathogen Detector Developed
A simple and inexpensive detection device is being created to find disease-causing microbes in samples of food, water, and human specimens.
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Undergrad Research Leads to Probiotic Beer
An undergraduate’s research project in Singapore led to the invention of a new type of beer having live bacteria associated with improving gut health.
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Flu Vaccine Patch Shown Safe, Responsive
A patch to deliver flu vaccine with tiny painless needles worn like a band-aid was shown in a clinical trial to be safe and produce an immune response.
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Start-Up to Offer Neuro Disorder Speech Analytics App
A start-up enterprise in Germany is commercializing a software app to detect early signs of cognitive decline, found in dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders.
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Nanoparticles Built to Detect, Measure Peanut Allergy
A chemical engineering team developed a system with nanoscale particles to better detect and diagnose the severity of peanut allergies.
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Preclinical Data Show Promise for Diabetic Eye Drug
Early evidence shows a drug designed as eye drops to treat diabetic macular edema, an eye disease in people with diabetes, permeates the entire eye, including the retina.
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Algorithm Quickly Customizes Walking Exoskeleton
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh wrote and tested an algorithm for exoskeletons that customize the devices to a person’s walking pattern in about an hour.