Tag: life sciences
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Patch Designed for Vaccines, Cancer Treatments
An engineering team designed a small skin patch with tiny needles that in lab mice quickly delivers vaccines and possibly treatments for melanoma.
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Crispr Deployed for Programmable Smart Hydrogels
Bio-engineers developed a process using the gene editing technique Crispr to design gel materials with properties added for drug delivery, diagnostics, and electronic circuits.
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Math Model to Gauge Heart Attack Risk from Plaques
An academic-industry collaboration is creating a non-invasive technique to detect rupture-prone plaque build-ups in arteries and predict one’s risk of heart attack.
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Small Biz Grant Funds Pre-Term Gut Microbe Therapy
National Institutes of Health is supporting development of an extended-release probiotic treatment for necrotizing enterocolitis, an intestinal disease affecting premature infants.
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Carb-X Funds Drug-Resistant Bacterial Vaccine
A company developing vaccines with synthetic biology is receiving a grant for a vaccine to prevent infections from drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria.
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Optic Nerve Stimulation Developed as Visual Prosthetic
Engineers in Europe developed an electronic device that connects to and stimulates the optic nerve, producing simple visual patterns in lab animals.
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FDA Okays Celiac Disease Engineered Microbe Trial
A company making synthetic biological therapies received authorization to begin clinical trials in the U.S. for an engineered microbe to treat celiac disease.
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Aging Therapy Network Adds $100M to Venture Round
An enterprise supporting a group of companies developing new drugs to address the aging process raised another $100 million in its second venture funding round.
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Skin Sensor Network Tracks Health Functions
An engineering team designed sensors that stick on the skin and form a network with radio-frequency signals to track physiological functions.
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Hispanic Neuro Disease Landscape Mapped in New Study
A new project examines brain pathologies leading to development of Alzheimer’s disease in Americans of Hispanic descent, a group largely ignored in neuroscience.