Tag: biomedical
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NIH Funding Immune-Friendly Synthetic Vascular Grafts
A bioengineering lab is receiving a National Institutes of Health grant to advance development of more tolerable synthetic veins and arteries implanted in heart bypass patients.
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T-Cell Therapy Company Gains $100M in Venture Funds
A 2 year-old company developing treatments for cancer and other diseases that activate or suppress the immune system with genetically engineered T-cells is raising $100 million in its first venture funding round.
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Start-Up Licenses Children’s Myopia-Control Contact Lens
A start-up enterprise spun-off from Hong Kong Polytechnic University is licensing the technology for a customized contact lens that controls and prevents further myopia in children.
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Institute Using Software to Boost Results Reproducibility
A genomics research lab in the U.K. is adding software to automate data collection that its developer says can improve the productivity of scientists and reproducibility of their findings.
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Blood Disorder Drug Maker Acquired in $11.6B Deal
The global pharmaceutical company Sanofi is buying Bioverativ Inc., a developer of biologics to treat hemophilia and other rare blood disorders.
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Institute, Company Partner on Implanted Neuro Device
A research center in Switzerland and medical engineering company in Germany are developing an implanted device to measure signals and treat disorders affecting the brain.
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Stem Cells Created with Gene Editing
A research lab in San Francisco devised a simpler process for creating stem cells from skin cells in mice with the gene editing technique Crispr.
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Limited Industry Progress Seen on Microbial Resistance
A pharmaceutical industry coalition documents some advances after 2 years in developing better products and practices against antimicrobial resistance, but progress is limited and uneven.
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Technique Developed for High-Speed Antibody Screening
A process is being developed to quickly discover antibodies in a person’s immune system that can also lead to new vaccines and drugs against viruses.
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Little Data to Support Wearable Device Health Benefits
A review of published research since 2000 shows little evidence to support claims of beneficial health outcomes from the use of wearable devices like smart watches or wristbands, at least not yet.