Tag: life sciences
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Wearables Assessed for Clinical Trial Value
An evaluation of wearable devices shows their value for collecting useful data in a clinical trial can vary depending on the purpose of the device.
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Natural Enemy Shown Effective Against Staph Bacteria
A clinical trial shows adding a treatment for drug-resistant infections based on the bacteria’s natural enemies kills more Staphylococcus aureus bacteria than standard antibiotics alone.
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Trial Assesses MRI-Guided Radiation Cancer Therapy
A clinical trial is underway to evaluate radiation therapy guided by magnetic resonance imaging, to help encourage its adoption in clinical cancer practice.
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Venture Fund Formed to Back Longevity Research
A new venture capital fund is being formed to finance start-up companies developing technologies that aim to extend healthy human life spans.
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Trial Underway Testing Placenta Grafts for Foot Ulcers
A clinical trial testing tissue grafts derived from human placenta tissue to treat diabetic foot ulcers enrolled its first patient.
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Biotech, Univ. Lab Partner on Cancer Antibodies
A biotechnology company is engaging the services of a children’s cancer researcher to develop an antibody for treating neuroblastoma, a type of cancer that affects the nervous system.
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Expanding Gel Pill Designed for Long-Term Diagnostics
An ingestible gel capsule is shown in tests with animals to expand and reside in the stomach for as long as a month for delivering drugs or monitoring bodily functions.
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Compounds Made Available for Pandemic Drug Discovery
Two international health organizations are making 400 compounds freely available to researchers to spur development of new drugs for pandemic infectious diseases.
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Precision Lung Cancer Trial Expands Scope
A large-scale clinical trial testing immunotherapy drugs to treat specific types of lung cancer is expanding to include all of the most common forms of the disease.
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Data Architecture Studied to Speed Genomic Sequencing
An academic-industry team of researchers and engineers is studying better ways of structuring the large volumes of data storage needed to speed up genomic sequencing.