Tag: university
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Medical Tech, Phone App Companies Partner on Wound Care
A company making wound care products is collaborating with a developer of mobile apps and analytics to design a more advanced diagnostics system for wounds.
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Components Designed to Improve Genetic Circuits
Researchers in Houston, Texas created a set of components like those in electronics that help make synthetic gene circuits more accurate and predictable.
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Stem Cell Patches Shown to Treat Heart Attack Damage
Human heart muscle patches made from stem cells helped fix damage and improve heart functions in tests with pigs induced with heart attacks.
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Neuro Informatics Software Released to Open Source
A collection of software from the Blue Brain Project for reconstructing models of mammal brain circuitry is being made freely available to the research community.
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HIV Drugs Formulated Into Once-Weekly Capsules
Medical and engineering researchers developed and tested in pigs a technique for packing several drugs into a capsule taken once a week to prevent and treat HIV infections.
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Genomic Analysis Company Adds Body Composition Profiles
A company analyzing genomics and microbiome factors to extend human life spans is adding an evaluation of body composition to its tool kit.
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Ingestible Sensors Measure Gases in Stomach, Gut
Researchers in Australia created a sensing device packed in a standard-size drug capsule that measures gas concentrations in the digestive tract in real time.
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Celgene Acquires Cancer Drug Start-Up in $7B Deal
The biopharmaceutical company Celgene Corp. is acquiring Impact Biomedicines Inc., a developer of drugs to treat a type of blood-related cancer, in a deal valued as much as $7 billion.
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Continuous Flow Manufacturing In Space Station Test
Among the experiments carried to the International Space Station in mid-December is a test of continuous separations of one liquid from another, used in drug and chemical manufacturing.
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Highly Targeted Opioid Designed to Avoid Side Effects
A pharmacology team decoded complex opioid proteins in the brain to design a compound that can relieve pain, but avoid the dangerous adverse effects causing addiction and overdoses.