Tag: university
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Breath Diagnostic Device Built on Common Computer Chip
A device acting like an electronic nose to analyze exhaled breath to diagnose disease is being developed at an engineering lab at University of Texas in Dallas.
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Engineered Facial Bone Grown from Stem Cells
Engineers developed techniques for growing personalized replacement facial bone from stem cells that in tests with pigs precisely fit their recipients’ faces.
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Univ. of Pittsburgh, Ansys Partner on Additive Mfring
Ansys, a developer of engineering simulation software and services, is starting an additive manufacturing lab at University of Pittsburgh’s engineering school.
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Graphene Chip Detects DNA, RNA Mutations
15 June 2016. A biomedical engineering team developed a chip built on graphene that detects mutations in genetic material, for eventual use in mobile diagnostics equipment. Researchers from University of California in San Diego, led by engineering professor Ratnesh Lal, describe their device this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Lal and…
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Glucose Drug Reduces Heart Disease in People with Diabetes
14 June 2016. A drug to reduce glucose levels was shown in a clinical trial to reduce serious heart disease in people with type 2 diabetes also at high risk of heart disease. Results of the late-stage trial testing the drug liraglutide, marketed by drug-maker Novo Nordisk under the brand name Victoza, appear in yesterday’s…
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Trial Underway Testing Drug to Reduce Chronic Cough
14 June 2016. A clinical trial testing a drug treating chronic cough — coughs continuing for 8 weeks or more — will begin recruiting participants in the U.K. to join other sites in the U.S. The U.K. sites are under the direction of National Institute for Health Research, testing a small molecule, or low molecular…
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Consortium Aims to Upgrade Cell Manufacturing
13 June 2016. A collaboration between businesses and universities outlined a strategy to develop processes and technologies for large-scale manufacturing of human cells for therapies and diagnostics. The National Cell Manufacturing Consortium, residing at Georgia Institute of Technology, announced its technology road map for advance cell manufacturing today at a White House conference on organ…
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FDA Approves Cholera Vaccine
13 June 2016. Food and Drug Administration approved for marketing the U.S. a vaccine to prevent cholera for travelers to regions in the world where contaminated food or water is causing the disease. Vaxchora by PaxVax Inc. in Redwood City, California is the first vaccine approved by the agency to prevent cholera. According to World…
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Process Devised to Quickly Isolate Bacteria in Lab Samples
10 June 2016. A biomedical engineering center at Harvard University developed a process for quickly isolating staph bacteria from clinical samples for lab testing. The team led by Donald Ingber, director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, published its findings earlier this week in the journal PLoS One. Ingber and colleagues…
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New Diabetic Eye Disease Drugs Shown Not Cost-Effective
10 June 2016. An evaluation of two new biologic drugs to treat diabetic macular edema, an eye disease caused by diabetes, show the drugs do not provide enough additional benefit over much less expensive treatments to justify their higher price tags. The team led by Adam Glassman of the Jaeb Center for Health Research in…