Tag: university
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Trial Shows Antibody Slows Alzheimer’s Cognitive Decline
A clinical trial shows older individuals with early or mild cases of Alzheimer’s disease treated for a year with an engineered human antibody have less decline in mental functions associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Sleeping Sickness Treatment Found in Cancer Drug
An experimental drug designed to treat solid tumor cancers was shown in lab tests to rid mice of human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness.
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Small Molecule Drug Discovery Patent Issued
A company developing small-molecule treatments for biological targets considered difficult to address is receiving a patent for its core drug identification technology.
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Non-Addictive Pain Medication Shown Working in Animals
An experimental medication was shown in tests with monkeys to relieve pain for more than a day without the addictive properties or adverse physical effects of opioids.
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Heart Research Built Into Personalized Activity Tracker
An activity tracking device introduced earlier this year uses data from a major population health study to write its algorithms measuring exercise achievement to prevent heart disease.
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Small Business Award Funding Epilepsy Drug Research
A federal grant is funding a project by Neuroene Therapeutics, a start-up enterprise in South Carolina to develop a new class of drugs to treat epilepsy.
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Inexpensive Hydrogen Storage Devised for Solar Energy
An engineering team in Switzerland designed a system for producing hydrogen from solar power with abundant available materials, providing an inexpensive and feasible energy storage method.
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Lower-Risk Blood Thinning Drugs Designed
Researchers from academic and industry labs designed anti-coagulation treatments for people in danger of blood clots, but less likely to cause excessive bleeding than current drugs.
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University Spin-Off Developing Sepsis Drug
A spin-off enterprise from University of British Columbia is licensing a cholesterol-lowering drug from drug maker Novartis to develop a treatment for sepsis and other severe infections.
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Stem Cells, Engineered Protein Reverse Stroke Damage
A combination of stem cells and synthetic human protein was shown in lab mice to repair damaged brain cells a week after an induced stroke.