Tag: patent
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Smartphone-Controlled Cells Produce Insulin on Demand
A system designed by researchers in China and Switzerland and controlled by a smartphone app was shown in lab mice to produce insulin on demand from engineered pancreas cells.
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Plant-Based Drug Shown to Cure Drug-Resistant Malaria
An experimental drug made from dried Artemisia annua plant leaves cured patients in Africa with malaria infections that became resistant to current drugs.
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Compound Found to Prevent Asthma Inflammation
A research team in Cincinnati discovered a small-molecule drug compound that in lab mice prevents cells in the lungs from becoming inflamed, as occurs in asthma attacks.
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Nanoparticles Boost T-Cells to Fight Leukemia
A cancer research lab designed a process to treat leukemia by reprogramming cells in the immune system with genes on nanoscale biodegradable particles.
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Crispr-Based Diagnostics System Designed
A bioengineering team from Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed simple, inexpensive diagnostics tools to detect infectious diseases, based on Crispr, an emerging genome-editing technology.
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NIH Funds Drug-Resistant Malaria Therapy Trial
An agency of National Institutes of Health is funding a clinical trial of a new malaria drug engineered to overcome resistance developed to earlier treatments.
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Engineered Bacteria Designed to Detect Gut Inflammation
A bioengineering team at Rice University developed a genetically modified form of bacteria that in lab mice detects inflammatory diseases in the gut.
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NIH Funds Seen Boosting Industry Patents
An analysis of grants issued by National Institutes of Health shows a large percentage of those grants, directly or indirectly, result in patented technologies in industry.
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Univ. of California to Gain European Crispr-Cas9 Patent
A patent dispute among top research universities took another turn, as the European Patent Office announced its intention to grant a patent to University of California for its genome editing techniques.
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Genetic Techniques Speed Brain, Muscle Cell Production
A new technology targets the expression of genes in stem cells to produce specific brain and muscle cells on demand and in a few days, a fraction of the time now required.