Tag: engineering
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Audio Tone Therapy Shown to Relieve Insomnia
Clinical trial findings show an electronic system that reads brain waves and feeds back personalized audio tones helps people with insomnia achieve better sleep.
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New Venture Funds to Back Life Science, Tech Start-Ups
Three new venture funds are seeking to invest up to $6.3 billion in start-up companies with advances in life sciences, health care, energy, and information technologies.
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Trial Underway Testing Bioelectronic Incontinence Device
The first participants are enrolled in a clinical trial of an implanted bio-feedback device to help women control urinary incontinence, sudden or stress-related urges to urinate.
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Damaged Human Lungs Restored for Transplantation
A research team demonstrated the feasibility of connecting anesthetized pigs to human lungs deemed unfit for transplants, for recovering the lungs to transplant quality.
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Infographic – Digital Health Venture Funds Crater in Q4 2022
Venture funds for new companies developing digital solutions for health care continued dropping throughout 2022, reaching their lowest levels in years in the fourth quarter.
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Psychedelic Drug Shown to Relieve PTSD Brain Signals
A small clinical trial shows psychotherapy with the psychedelic drug MDMA generates brain signals that help relieve symptoms in people with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Trial to Assess At-Home Asthma Lung Function Tests
A clinical trial is set to begin that compares monitoring of lung functions in people with asthma using portable ultrasound and mobile app at home to conventional tests in a clinic.
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Audio Digital Biomarkers Start-Up Raises $3.7M in Seed Funds
A new company developing techniques to analyze internal physiological sounds captured by stethoscopes as health indicators is raising $3.7 million in seed funds.
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Nanotech Enzyme Process Boosts T-Cell Cancer Therapies
A bioengineering team devised techniques for feasibly adding cancer-killing enzymes to engineered immune cells that in lab mice kill solid-tumor and blood cancer cells.
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Biotech Alliance Creating Circular RNA Cancer Drug
A partnership of biotechnology components and therapy companies aims to develop new drugs made from circular forms of RNA, starting with a colorectal cancer treatment.