Tag: life sciences
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Kidney Organoids Created with Working Blood Vessels
Bioengineering labs at Harvard University and affiliated hospitals used stem cells and three-dimensional printing to create kidney tissue chips with blood vessel networks.
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UC-Berkeley to Get New Crispr Patent
University of California in Berkeley will soon receive a new patent for its development of the genome editing process known as Crispr, the latest round in a years-long dispute.
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Insulin Delivered by Capsule, That’s the Good News
Before we start celebrating the end of injections, we need to deal with a more basic problem facing people with diabetes, namely the rapidly rising cost of insulin.
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Infographic – What is Crispr?
Even as Crispr has gained commercial traction and public attention, there’s still a need for a good illustrated introduction to the technique.
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Trial Testing Vaginal Ring, PrEP in Teens, Young Women
A clinical trial is underway testing use and preferences for drugs or a medical device to prevent HIV infection among young women and teenage girls in Africa.
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Capsule Designed to Inject Insulin in Stomach Wall
A biomedical engineering team created a capsule that in animal tests releases a tiny needle delivering an insulin dose to the stomach lining, equivalent to conventional insulin injections.
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Company to Stop Cancer Spread, Relapse Raises $60.8M
A new company formed to commercialize research that aims to prevent cancer from spreading or recurring is raising $60.75 million in its first venture financing.
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Large Molecule Library Enables On-Demand Drug Discovery
A large-scale public drug molecule library is shown with computational modeling to accurately identify on-demand new compounds that bind completely to therapy targets.
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Univ. Spin-Off Developing High-Nutrition Corn
A company spun-off from a university agriculture research lab is developing a variety of corn with more vitamin A and other nutrients missing from most other types.
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Brain Tissue Model Devised for Cancer Drug Testing
A three-dimensional brain tissue model, including a patient’s tumor cells, shows in lab tests an ability to test current and experimental cancer drugs.