Tag: biomedical
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Fitbit Devices Providing Precision Medicine Data
Wearers of Fitbit activity tracking devices now have the option of sharing their data with a large-scale precision medicine project run by National Institutes of Health.
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Consortium to Speed Vaccine Production
An alliance of research organizations is designing ways to cut the time needed to develop, test, and manufacture new vaccines to as little as 6 months.
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Shutdown Delays FDA Peanut Allergy Drug Review
Regulatory review of a drug to prevent allergic reactions to peanuts appears to be delayed by the shutdown of some U.S. government operations.
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3-D Printed Implants Treat Spinal Cord Injury
Customized implants, produced on a 3-D printer and seeded with stem cells, are shown in tests with lab animals to restore nerve signals and functioning after a spinal cord injury.
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RNA Therapy Studied for Parkinson’s Side Effects
Medical researchers are developing a treatment for a frequent side-effect of Parkinson’s disease drugs using a corrective RNA molecule to reverse the condition.
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Spin-Off Gains Seed Funds for Non-Opioid Pain Drug
A company spun-off from a university medical materials lab received start-up funds to develop a non-opioid surgical pain therapy, including a clinical trial.
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Cancer-Fighting Protein Designed to Cut Adverse Effects
A computational biology lab designed a synthetic protein that works like natural cancer-fighting proteins, but in lab mice kills cancer cells with few adverse effects.
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Start-up Funds Univ. Medical Cannabis Research
A developer of therapies derived from cannabis is sponsoring a 3-year basic and translational research program, including clinical trials, at Imperial College London.
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Electronic Tags Assessed to Boost Clinic Care
A medical school eye clinic is asking clinicians and patients to wear radio-frequency tags that track their time and movements to improve the clinic’s efficiency and quality of care.
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Crispr Deployed to Stop Disease, Pest Insects
A genetics lab is using the genome editing technique Crispr to create sterilized male insects, which can lead to fewer disease-spreading and farm pest insects.