Tag: biomedical
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Low Carb Diet, Biomarker Tracking Help Reverse Diabetes
A combination of low-carbohydrate diet, with close monitoring of health indicators and coaching via a mobile app are shown in a clinical trial to reverse type 2 diabetes, including reductions in medication and insulin therapy.
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Open-Source Discovery Seeks Neglected Disease Drug
An international online collaboration is using an open process to discover new drug compounds to treat mycetoma, a slow-progressing inflammatory fungal disease occurring mainly in developing regions, which up to now is largely neglected.
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Personal Brain Stimulation Shown to Boost Memory
A team of psychologists and neuroscientists developed techniques for monitoring and electrically stimulating key parts of the brain, personalized to each individual, which in tests show can improve a person’s memory.
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Biotech, Univ. Lab Partner on Stem Cells for Alzheimer’s
A biotechnology company specializing in stem cell therapeutics is licensing a process from Texas A&M University to produce exosomes — cellular delivery packages — from adult stem cells as possible therapies for Alzheimer’s disease.
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FDA Approves Wearable Epilepsy Seizure Detector
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a device worn like a wristwatch that uses a machine-learning algorithm to detect convulsive seizures in people with epilepsy.
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Radiation, Biotech Companies Partner on Scar Therapy
Two companies taking different approaches to treating keloids — visible raised skin scars — are integrating their therapies to develop an anticipated treatment that removes and prevents the recurrence of these scars.
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Texas Vaccine Center Expanding R&D
A vaccine research center in Galveston, Texas is expanding its operations to add more basic and preclinical studies that lead to clinical trials resulting in more preventive and therapeutic vaccines.
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Pharma Maker Crowdsourcing for Drug Delivery Partners
The global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is looking for collaborators to develop treatments for disease using nucleic acids delivered with cell-penetrating peptides.
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Brain Wave Data Harnessed for Open-Source Brain Model
A lab in Germany created a technique for discovering a person’s neurological patterns from brain waves captured with a headset and simulated with population-wide brain data run on open-source software.
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Engineered T-Cells Show Extended Leukemia Remission
A clinical trial shows a patient’s immune system cells, modified to add cancer-fighting proteins, can extend high remission among children with a type of leukemia for as long as 12 months, but also with high rates of adverse effects.