Tag: university
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Phillips, MIT Form Health Technology Collaboration
20 May 2015. Electronics manufacturer Royal Phillips and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are collaborating on research into health care technology and digital urban lighting systems. The 5-year, $25 million agreement also includes moving the company’s North American research and development center to Cambridge, Massachusetts near the MIT campus. Phillips, headquartered in the Netherlands, designs and…
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Lab-On-Chip Device Captures Circulating Tumor Cells
19 May 2015. Engineers and medical researchers designed a microchip that detects clusters of circulating tumor cells that break away from tumors and can spread cancer throughout the body. The team from a joint Harvard-MIT health sciences technology program and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston published its findings yesterday in the journal Nature Methods (paid…
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National Academies to Develop Gene-Editing Guidelines
18 May 2015. National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine plan to write guidelines governing an emerging technology for editing human genomes. The initiative includes an international meeting in the fall to discuss the scientific, ethical, and policy issues associated with the technology known as CRISPR-Cas9. CRISPR, short for clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic…
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Oxford Establishes £300M Spin-Off Capital Fund
15 May 2015. University of Oxford in the U.K. is creating a capital investment fund to help launch spin-off companies based on research from university labs. The £300 million ($US 472 million) fund will be managed by a new enterprise, Oxford Sciences Innovation plc, which will be the university’s preferred capital financier for businesses generated…
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Mayo Clinic, Baylor to Study Genomes for Drug Safety
13 May 2015. Mayo Clinic and Baylor College of Medicine are beginning a study of 10,000 human genomes to reveal drug safety problems and highlight where drugs may not work for some people. Financial aspects of the collaboration, involving Mayo Clinic’s Biobank and Baylor’s Human Genome Sequencing Center, were not disclosed. The research aims to…
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GSK, UNC Chapel Hill Partner on HIV/AIDS Cure
11 May 2015. Pharmaceutical maker GlaxoSmithKline and University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill are establishing a joint research center and spin-off company to develop new treatments for HIV and AIDS. GSK says it plans to invest $20 million over 5 years for a new HIV Cure Center on the Chapel Hill campus to conduct…
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Clinical Trial Testing West Nile Vaccine
7 May 2015. A vaccine for West Nile virus, a seasonal infection spread by mosquitoes, is being tested for safety in an early stage clinical trial. The vaccine, code-named HydroVax-001, is being developed in the lab of microbiologist Mark Slifka at Oregon Health and Science University in Beaverton and commercialized by Najit Technologies Inc., a…
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New Company Founded to Develop Centimeter-Accurate GPS
Video: Centimeter-level GPS used in a virtual reality headset (University of Texas, Austin) 6 May 2015. An engineering lab at University of Texas in Austin designed a low-cost portable global positioning system with precision to a few centimeters, and started a company to take the technology to market. A team from UT-Austin’s Radionavigation Laboratory, led…
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Cancer Therapy Spin-Off Gets $2M Small Business Grant
4 May 2015. A three year-old company started by a University at Buffalo microbiologist received a $2 million grant to develop an antibody into a clinical treatment for breast and other types of cancer. For-Robin in Williamsville, New York, received the two-year award from National Cancer Institute, part of National Institutes of Health, under the…
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Stem Cells Treat Vision Disorders in Animal Tests
4 May 2015. Tests with lab rats of a therapy for degenerating retinas in the eyes, show the treatments derived from human embryonic stem cells can restore visual functions. Results of the treatments, developed by Cell Cure Neurosciences Ltd., are scheduled to be reported today by a research team from Oregon Health and Science University…