Tag: university
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Patent Office Decides for Broad and Editas in Crispr Case
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decided that the gene editing processes developed by Broad Institute and licensed to Editas Medicine do not interfere with techniques for genome editing created by University of California at Berkeley.
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Tissue Regeneration Start-Up Gains $33M in Early Funds
A new enterprise founded by researchers at Stanford University aims to discover and develop drugs that repair and regenerate tissue from stem cells.
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Skin Health Data Collected by App Offered for Research
A smartphone app collecting images and data about moles on the skin of volunteers is now available to researchers for studies of cancer and other disorders.
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Cancer Drug Shown to Improve Survival Time in Dogs
A drug to treat a deadly cancer in dogs was shown in a clinical trial to extend the survival time of canine patients by 6 months or more, with potential applications in humans.
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Gates Grant Funding Malaria Control Test Products
Two universities in the U.K. are developing testing protocols for a new generation of technologies coming to market to prevent mosquitoes from spreading diseases.
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System Slashes Time to Detect Bacteria in Blood
A biomedical engineering lab developed a compact system that detects harmful bacteria in blood samples in less than four hours, a process that now takes days.
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DNA Tags Speed Nanoparticle Gene Therapy Discovery
Biomedical engineers developed a technique with unique DNA identifiers that makes possible faster screening of gene therapies delivered with nanoscale particles.
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Trial Testing Artificial Pancreas for Type 1 Diabetes
A clinical trial testing day-to-day use of a smartphone-controlled artificial pancreas for people with type 1 diabetes began enrolling participants.
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Stomach Acid Harnessed to Power Ingestible Devices
Researchers at MIT and Harvard University designed a tiny device that in tests with animals show it can run for days powered by acids in the stomach.
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Company, NC State Partner on Tissue Oxygen Patch
Profusa Inc. and a research center at North Carolina State University are developing a new device to monitor tissue oxygen levels in people with peripheral artery disease.