Tag: university
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Texas Vaccine Center Expanding R&D
A vaccine research center in Galveston, Texas is expanding its operations to add more basic and preclinical studies that lead to clinical trials resulting in more preventive and therapeutic vaccines.
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Brain Wave Data Harnessed for Open-Source Brain Model
A lab in Germany created a technique for discovering a person’s neurological patterns from brain waves captured with a headset and simulated with population-wide brain data run on open-source software.
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Engineered T-Cells Show Extended Leukemia Remission
A clinical trial shows a patient’s immune system cells, modified to add cancer-fighting proteins, can extend high remission among children with a type of leukemia for as long as 12 months, but also with high rates of adverse effects.
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Brain Stimulation Shown to Slow Alzheimer’s Progression
A small-scale study shows an implanted device providing mild electrical stimulation to the brain’s frontal lobe slows the loss of cognitive functions from Alzheimer’s disease.
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Microsoft Providing A.I. for Big Data Cancer Research
Seven research teams are receiving grants to study complex problems in cancer immunotherapy with large-scale data sets, and assistance with machine learning and artificial intelligence provided by Microsoft Corp.
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Grants Made to Commercialize Bone, Cancer Research
A program supporting research with commercial potential awarded grants to scientists studying stem cells for bone grafts, treatments for melanoma, and protein therapies for cancer that change gene expression patterns.
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Energy Dept Grant Funding Poplar Tree Rust Study
A university-government biotechnology lab is studying the genomics of leaf rust, a fungus afflicting poplar trees, an emerging biofuel crop, with the goal of engineering resistance to the pathogen.
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Biotech, Pharma Dominate U.S. Academic Patents
In 2016, patents on biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical technologies accounted for 40 percent of all academic patents, with measurement technologies and organic chemistry each getting 7 percent of the total.
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Spin-Off Gains FDA Clearance for Bone Graft Material
A company spun-off from a university tissue engineering research lab received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to market its polymer material in the U.S. to help regrow bones.
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Overlooked Drugs Show Promise Against Superbugs
A class of antibiotics first discovered in the 1970s, but passed by as new drugs came on the market, are getting a second look as the need intensifies for better weapons to treat infections resistant to most antibiotics.