Tag: patent
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Patent Advances for Gut Damage Treatment Delivery
A developer of therapies for damage to an intestinal barrier received a notice that the U.S. intends to issue a patent protecting the technology to deliver the treatments.
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Chip Device Simulates Blood Vessels in Clotting
Researchers at a Harvard University bioengineering center developed a plastic chip that simulates critical interactions between tissue lining blood vessels and platelets that affect the flow of blood.
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Univ. Spin-Off Develops New Cybersecurity Paradigm
A start-up enterprise from a university is developing a simplified cybersecurity infrastructure for businesses, and raised $2 million in its first funding round
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Gene Therapy Designed for Muscle Wasting Disease
Researchers devised a treatment for a cancer-related muscle wasting disease using gene transfers that in lab mice block signals promoting muscle degradation.
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Radiation Enhances Nanoparticle Cancer Treatments
Targeting tumors with chemotherapy delivered in nanoparticles, preceded with radiation, was shown in lab mice to boost treatments in a range of cancers.
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Wearable System Devised for Stroke Rehab at Home
Engineering students designed a wearable system connected to a smartphone that enables stroke patients to perform some of their rehabilitation program at home.
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Patent Given for Non-Invasive Spinal Stimulation Technology
2 June 2016. A New York neuroscientist who invented a device for stimulating the spinal cord from outside the body to relieve muscle spasticity and paralysis, received a patent for his technology. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded patent number 9,283,391 to physical therapy professor Zaghloul Ahmed at College of Staten Island, a division of…
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Patent Awarded for Skin Stem Cell Regeneration Methods
24 May 2016. Two faculty members at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts received a patent for techniques that make regeneration of human tissue with adult stem cells more direct and productive. Patent number 9,290,740 was issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in March 2016 to biomedical engineering professor Raymond Page and biotechnology professor…
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Chip Device Simulates Human Gut Interactions
11 May 2016. A device simulating the human intestine was shown in lab tests to generate similar responses to interactions between gut microbes and cells, as found in humans and animals. The HuMix system — short for Human Microbial Cross Talk — developed by researchers at University of Luxembourg and University of Arizona, is described…
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Personalized Heart Model Devised for Treatment Decisions
11 May 2016. A medical engineering team developed three-dimensional computer models of the heart that better predict heart rhythm problems requiring an implanted defibrillator than current guidelines. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University led by biomedical engineering professor Natalia Trayanova published its findings yesterday in the journal Nature Communications. Trayanova and colleagues from the Johns Hopkins…