Tag: physical sciences
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FDA, Emulate to Test Organs-on-Chips for Drug Toxins
A joint venture between Food and Drug Administration and a developer of chip devices simulating human organs, is evaluating the chips as a way to test new drugs for toxic effects.
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NIH Funds Drug-Resistant Malaria Therapy Trial
An agency of National Institutes of Health is funding a clinical trial of a new malaria drug engineered to overcome resistance developed to earlier treatments.
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Student Project Leads to Medical Device Start-Up
A group of engineering and business students developing an imaging device that quickly finds veins for blood draws is starting a company to take the device to market.
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Prodrugs Designed to Better Target Cancer Therapies
A delivery mechanism is being developed to package cancer drugs in a nanoscale precursor state that reacts only in tumor regions, to protect against adverse effects.
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Univ. Spin-Off Designing Heart Disease Screening App
A spin-off enterprise from Massachusetts Institute of Technology is creating a system using a smartphone camera to detect heart rhythm problems that lead to a stroke.
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Diet Enhancing Gut Microbes Shown to Slow Type 1 Diabetes
A diet that produces certain short-chain fatty acids in the gut is shown in lab mice to support the immune system and slow the onset of type 1 diabetes.
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T-Cell Therapy Trial Begins for Autoimmune Diseases
A biotechnology company began testing on humans an experimental drug to increase healthy T-cells in the immune system for people with autoimmune disorders.
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Challenge Seeks GI Tract Drug Delivery in Animals
A new challenge offered through InnoCentive is aiming for solutions to protect biological drugs delivered into the gastrointestinal, or GI, tract of animals.
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Inhaled Drug Shown Feasible for Postpartum Bleeding
Results from a clinical trial show a dry-powder inhaled form of the drug oxytocin works in the body much like the injected form, given to prevent postpartum hemorrhage, excessive bleeding in some women after childbirth.
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Protein IDed to Cut Implanted Device Immune Reactions
Researchers at MIT identified a protein playing a key role in promoting the scar tissue that forms from immune reactions to implanted medical devices, and blocking actions of this protein can prevent scar tissue from forming on materials often used with implants.