Tag: life sciences
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Trials OK’d for Inherited Eye Disease Therapy with Crispr
The company developing a treatment for a rare inherited eye disease using the genome editing technique Crispr received authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to begin clinical trials.
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Project to Catalog Precision Lung Cancer Immunotherapies
A new research initiative in the U.K. is collecting and mapping precise combinations of therapies that invoke the immune system to treat lung cancer.
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Nanotech Polymers Deliver More Effective Arthritis Therapy
A chemical engineering lab developed a process to help proteins combined with nanoscale polymers penetrate the cartilage in lab rodents and boost treatment for damage caused by osteoarthritis.
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Prosthetic Joint Provides More Natural Wrist Movements
An academic-industry engineering team in Sweden developed and tested a prosthetic wrist joint that provides more natural movement and control than most current devices.
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Personalized Computer Models Developed for Heart Disease
Researchers in the U.K. are developing computer models of heart functions that enable physicians to simulate recommended treatments for individual patients to gauge and optimize their outcomes.
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Vital Signs Electronic Tag Designed to Aid First Responders
A simple electronic monitoring device that adheres to the chest aims to provide basic vital signs data to first responders and emergency medical staff in mass casualty situations.
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Company Formed to Advance Sickle Cell Gene Therapy
A Swiss medical technologies company and Cincinnati Children’s hospital in Ohio are starting a new enterprise to commercialize research on gene therapies for inherited blood disorders.
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FDA Approves Biomarker-Targeting Cancer Drug
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved a treatment for solid tumor cancers that focuses on specific cancer-causing genetic conditions rather than location of the cancer in the body.
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3-D Printed Scaffolds with Stem Cells, Sensors Studied to Repair Bones
A bioengineering lab at University of Arizona is researching new techniques with three-dimensional printing, stem cells, and sensors to repair severe bone fractures.
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Engineered Tissue-Polymer Replacement Spinal Discs Developed
Vertebrae discs made with engineered tissue from stem cells and biocompatible polymer hydrogels were shown in test with lab animals to have comparable properties to natural spinal discs.