Tag: patent
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Tough Ingested Hydrogels Designed for Long-Term Drugs
A medical engineering team developed and tested in animals a new water-based polymer material to deliver drugs for long-term release in the stomach.
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Robot Designed to Grow into Shapes, Spaces
Engineering researchers created a new type of robot that grows to extend its form into spaces like a vine, rather than move to different locations.
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Patent Awarded for Exosome Capture Process
A company making blood filtering devices was awarded a patent for a process to capture tiny particles carrying proteins that suppress immune responses.
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Nanotech Treatment Studied for Brain Tumors
Medical researchers and engineers designed and tested in mice a way to deliver gene-silencing therapies in nanoscale particles to treat glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.
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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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Simple, Inexpensive Pathogen Detector Developed
A simple and inexpensive detection device is being created to find disease-causing microbes in samples of food, water, and human specimens.
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Undergrad Research Leads to Probiotic Beer
An undergraduate’s research project in Singapore led to the invention of a new type of beer having live bacteria associated with improving gut health.
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Supreme Court Cuts Biosimilar Waiting Time
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that makers of biologic drugs similar to branded originals need not wait an additional 6 months to begin marketing their products.
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Patent Awarded for COPD Dry Powder Inhaler Formula
A formulation for dry powder inhalers to treat respiratory diseases that its developers say delivers medication to the lungs more efficiently received a U.S. patent.
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Synthetic Retina Developed with Natural Materials
A chemistry lab in the U.K. developed a synthetic retina made of natural materials resembling human tissue that in lab tests detects static, moving, and grey-scale images.