Tag: university
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Emergency Sealant Gel Developed for Eye Injuries
A medical engineering team created a gel material that safely closes injured eye tissue until surgical treatments can be given.
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Tobacco Plants Studied as Drug Bio-Factories
A university in Australia is joining a European research project to create new types of tobacco plants for producing pharmaceuticals.
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Cell Programming Company Raises $49.5M in Early Funds
A start-up enterprise creating add-on treatments that program the effects of cell and gene therapies is raising $49.5 million in its first venture funding round.
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Large-Scale Process Devised for Lab-Made Liver Tissue
Researchers in Japan and the U.S. created techniques for producing liver tissue in large quantities in the lab for transplant or drug testing.
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Programmable Nanoscale Drug Capsules Designed
A lab at University of Connecticut is developing nanoscale capsules that release drug cargoes only when encountering specific enzymes, even inside cells.
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Engineered Cells Identify Rare Epilepsy Drug Candidates
A process using high-speed screening of drug candidates with genetically engineered cells identified potential drugs to treat a rare form of childhood epilepsy.
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RNA Injections Shown to Rebuild Damaged Heart Muscle
Engineers and medical researchers developed a technique to deliver genetic material into damaged heart muscle that in lab mice regrows heart cells.
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Marine Animal Venom Studied for Pain Drugs
A medical research team is investigating the chemistry in venom from snail-like marine animals to discover natural alternative drugs for pain.
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Artificial Muscles Designed for Soft Robotics
Engineering researchers created artificial muscles for robotics using principles from origami, or Japanese paper folding, with high strength and low-cost materials.
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Survey: More Research Patents, Start-Ups in 2016
A survey of universities and other institutions shows the number of patent filings and new start-up companies resulting from federally-funded research climbed in 2016.