Tag: university
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NIH Supporting App That Helps Opioid Therapies
A company making game-style mobile apps to help therapies for opioid and other substance abuse is receiving R&D support from National Institutes of Health.
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Smartphone Data Reveal Physical Activity Worldwide
A data science team tapped into smartphones of more than 717,000 people worldwide to capture the number of steps they take each day as an indicator of physical activity.
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Darpa Funding Research on Brain-Digital Implants
The advanced research agency in Department of Defense is supporting six new projects on neural devices that connect the brain to digital technologies to restore sensory functions.
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Broad Institute in Crispr Licensing Program
One of the key inventors of a genome editing technique known as Crispr is joining a program that promises to ease licensing of its patents for the technology.
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Device Shown to Reduce Migraine Occurrence
A clinical trial shows an electronic device worn with headphones reduces the number of days with migraines among people with a history of their occurrence.
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Battery-Free Cell Phone Demonstrated
A computer science and engineering team demonstrated a prototype cell phone that sends and receives calls, but operates with power from ambient light and radio signals.
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Feasibility, Safety Shown for Personal Tumor Vaccine
A pilot study among individuals with a form of skin cancer shows a vaccine aiming at proteins specific to a person’s tumor is safe and can generate a complex immune response attacking the tumor.
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Game App Improves Memory Among Cognitive Impaired
A brain training game for an iPad was shown in a clinical study to improve the memory of people with mild cognitive impairment, a precursor stage to dementia.
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Chip Device Quickly Detects Sepsis in Blood
An engineering team designed a lab-on-a-chip device that in tests with hospital patients shows it can find signs of sepsis in a drop of blood in about 30 minutes.
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NIH Funds Nanotech Tools for Cancer, Blood Clots
A bioengineering lab is receiving awards from National Institutes of Health to apply nanotechnology to treatments for breast cancer and diagnostics for deep vein blood clots.