Tag: university
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Electronic Stimulation Shown to Reduce Arthritic Knee Pain
5 January 2015. Results from a clinical trial show a device emitting electronic pulses reduced more pain in the knees of people with osteoarthritis, compared to a placebo. Findings from the study, conducted by a team from University of Messina in Italy, appear in the January 2016 issue of the journal Rheumatology. The trial tested…
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Medical Industry Payment Recipients Identified
5 January 2016. An analysis of industry payments to physicians shows cardiovascular specialists and neurosurgeons were the specialties most likely to receive payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies. The findings appear in this month’s issue of the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The research team from University of California in San Diego, led by radiation…
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Clinical Trials to Test Artificial Pancreas
4 January 2016. Two new clinical trials are planned to test a smartphone-based closed-loop artificial pancreas system for people with type 1 diabetes. The system is developed by teams at University of Virginia in Charlottesville and Harvard University, and licensed for commercial development by TypeZero LLC, also in Charlottesville. The trials are funded by a…
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Autism App Adapts Facial Analysis Software
31 December 2015. A research team at Duke University is using facial analysis software routines developed for the U.S. Navy in building a smartphone app to screen for autism. The Duke team, led by engineering professor Guillermo Sapiro, adapted algorithms designed for the Office of Naval Research to analyze emotions displayed through facial expressions. Sapiro…
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Cancer Genome Data Visualization Tool Developed
29 December 2015. A bioinformatics team at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital created a Web-based system that illustrates genetic mutations behind pediatric cancers. The software and database in ProteinPaint, as the system is called, are described in a letter in today’s issue of the journal Nature Genetics (paid subscription required). The team led by Jinghui…
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Human Cornea Cells Derived from Stem Cells
28 December 2015. A biotechnology company designed a process for generating human cornea cells from embryonic stem cells, without a donated cornea, the current replacement therapy. The team from Ocata Therapeutics Inc. led by Robert Lanza, the company’s chief scientist, published its proof-of-concept findings last week in the journal PLoS One. Lanza and colleagues —…
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Bioactive Glass Reduces Decay in Tooth Cavity Fillings
23 December 2015. An engineering group at Oregon State University adapted a type of glass material that in lab models slows the decay in teeth with composite cavity fillings. The team led by materials engineering professor Jamie Kruzic published its findings in the January 2016 issue of the journal Dental Materials. Kruzic, with colleagues from…
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Start-Up Licenses Founder’s Research for Resistant Bacteria
22 December 2015. A biotechnology company spun-off from University of California in San Diego is licensing technology from the university to develop treatments for bacterial infections now becoming resistant to conventional antibiotics. Financial terms of the licensing agreement between UC-San Diego and Forge Therapeutics were not disclosed. Forge Therapeutics, also in San Diego, is licensing…
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Airway-on-Chip Model Simulates Asthma, COPD
22 December 2015. A biomedical engineering lab at Harvard University developed a small chip device that acts as a model of human airways to study biological processes and test drugs for diseases such as COPD and asthma. A team from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering describe the device in yesterday’s issue of the…
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Trial Shows Clot Prevention Drug Safe, Reversible
18 December 2015. An early-stage clinical trial of an experimental drug to prevent blood clots during heart surgery shows the drug prevents platelet accumulation, while still safe and temporary to prevent excess bleeding. The study by a team at Tufts University Medical Center in Boston and Sinai Hospital of Baltimore appears in yesterday’s issue of…