Tag: engineering
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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.
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Implanted Organoid Connects to Brain, Reacts to Visual Cues
Engineers and neuroscientists developed a circuit that in lab mice connects implanted lab-grown brain tissue to the brain’s cognitive center and responds to visual stimuli.
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Cell Biology Tools Companies Merge in $57.8M Deal
Two providers of technologies for cellular analysis are merging to form a new company focusing on cell biology research tools, in a sign of continued industry consolidation.
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Immune Organoid Company Raises $4.3M in Seed Funds
A new company developing 3-D cell and tissue models of lymph nodes for discovery of immunotherapies is raising $4.3 million in seed funds.
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Personal Allergy Start-Up Gains $16.5M in Early Funds
A new business that provides personalized allergy testing, drug making, and delivery to consumers is raising $16.5 million in its first venture funding round.