Tag: entrepreneurs
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FDA Clears Insomnia Relief Device
8 June 2016. A device that helps people with insomnia get to sleep without taking drugs received clearance for marketing in the U.S. from the Food and Drug Administration. The device, developed by the company Cerêve in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will require a prescription once it’s on the market in the U.S., expected in the second…
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Kauffman Index Shows Higher Start-Up Growth in 2016
8 June 2016. An index of high-growth start-up companies shows the rate of entrepreneurial expansion in the U.S. accelerated for the third year in a row, with greatest concentration of growing enterprises found in the Washington, D.C. region. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri yesterday issued its annual Index of Growth Entrepreneurship…
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Precision Medicine Shown to Boost Cancer Outcomes
7 June 2016. An analysis of results from early-stage clinical trials shows trials using treatments for cancer aimed at specific molecular targets had higher response rates and longer survival times than studies not using these targets. The team from University of California in San Diego, led by postdoctoral researcher Maria Schwaederlé, published its findings in…
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Patent Given for Non-Invasive Spinal Stimulation Technology
2 June 2016. A New York neuroscientist who invented a device for stimulating the spinal cord from outside the body to relieve muscle spasticity and paralysis, received a patent for his technology. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded patent number 9,283,391 to physical therapy professor Zaghloul Ahmed at College of Staten Island, a division of…
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Start-Up, Univ. Lab Partner on Computational Drug Discovery
25 May 2016. A two-year old company developing algorithms for drug discovery is collaborating with University of Chicago medical school to identify candidates to prevent atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. Financial aspects of the agreement between twoXAR Inc. in Palo Alto, California and the lab of Yun Fang at University of Chicago were not…
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Start-Up Licenses Genetics Technology for HIV Diagnostics
19 May 2016. A spin-off company from Harvard University is licensing genetics research to develop more powerful tools to detect drug-resistant strains of HIV. Financial details of the agreement between the 2 year-old Aldatu Biosciences Inc. and Harvard were not disclosed. Aldatu Biosciences is the creation of pathologist Iain MacLeod and geneticist David Raiser that…
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Fast, Inexpensive Test for Water Bacteria Developed
18 May 2016. A team at York University in Toronto designed a water-testing kit connecting to a smartphone that makes testing for water-borne bacteria faster and less expensive. The Mobile Water Kit, from the lab of engineering professor Sushanta Mitra, is described in a recent issue of the journal Analyst (free registration required). Developers of the…
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Chip Device Simulates Human Gut Interactions
11 May 2016. A device simulating the human intestine was shown in lab tests to generate similar responses to interactions between gut microbes and cells, as found in humans and animals. The HuMix system — short for Human Microbial Cross Talk — developed by researchers at University of Luxembourg and University of Arizona, is described…
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Personalized Heart Model Devised for Treatment Decisions
11 May 2016. A medical engineering team developed three-dimensional computer models of the heart that better predict heart rhythm problems requiring an implanted defibrillator than current guidelines. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University led by biomedical engineering professor Natalia Trayanova published its findings yesterday in the journal Nature Communications. Trayanova and colleagues from the Johns Hopkins…
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Neurological Biotech Raises $65M in Venture Funds
10 May 2016. A biotechnology company designing treatments for neurological disorders caused by rigidity in nerve cell synapses, is raising $65 million in its first venture funding round. Aptinyx Inc. in Evanston, Illinois, is a spin-off enterprise that formed when Naurex Inc., another biotech company, was acquired by drug maker Allergan plc in September 2015.…