Tag: university
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Costs to Support Stroke Survivors Stay High for 10 Years
24 October 2014. Researchers at Monash University in Australia calculated long-term costs to stroke patients, finding the financial burden on patients and their care givers remains significant for 10 years following the stroke episode. The team led by Monash medical school professor Dominique Cadilhac reported its findings in yesterday’s issue of the journal Stroke (paid…
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Paper-Based Synthetic Bio Sensors, Circuits Developed
24 October 2014. Biomedical engineers at Harvard University designed systems with simple sensors applied on paper to detect complex cellular reactions that can speed use of point-of-care diagnostics in the field. Findings from the team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, with colleagues from Boston University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy…
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Biotech, McGill Univ Partner on Soil Enhancement Microbes
23 October 2014. Inocucor Technologies Inc. and McGill University are collaborating on development of new types of microbes that improve soil for greater yields of large-scale crops such as corn and soybeans. Financial details of the research and licensing agreement between the company and university, both in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, were not disclosed. Inocucor Technologies…
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IBM, Health Tech, Univ Designing Critical Care Mobile System
23 October 2014. IBM, University of Michigan, and mobile health technology company AirStrip are developing a system to provide real time monitoring and analytics for patients with chronic or critical disorders. The system is being designed to collect data directly from patients and provide early warning initially for hemodynamic decompensation, a type of heart failure…
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Clinical Trial Proposals Sought for ALS Treatments
22 October 2014. A group of U.S. organizations promoting research on therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS are seeking proposals from academic-industry research teams for intermediate stage clinical trials to test treatment candidates for the disease. The organizations — ALS Association, ALS Accelerated Therapeutics or ALS ACT, and Northeast ALS Consortium — plan to…
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Graphene Sensor Offers Clear Optical Access to Brain Cells
22 October 2014. Engineers at University of Wisconsin in Madison developed an implanted transparent sensor made with graphene that allows for imaging and diagnostics in the brain requiring line-of-sight access. The team led by electrical engineering professor Zhenqiang Ma and biomedical engineering faculty Justin Williams published its findings this week in the journal Nature Communications.…
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Project Developing DNA Antibodies for Infectious Diseases
21 October 2014. The biotechnology company Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. and partners are developing synthetic antibodies based on DNA that generate an immune reaction to prevent infectious diseases, a project funded by Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA. The $12.2 million DARPA grant is supporting the work of Inovia, in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania,…
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Simple 3-D Graphene Construction Process Devised
17 October 2014. Materials scientists at Kyoto University in Japan developed a new process that simplifies the building of three-dimension structures with graphene, a light, strong, conductive material with many industrial and commercial applications. Franklin Kim and Jianli Zou from Kyoto’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences published their findings yesterday in the journal Nature Communications…
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Personalized Leukemia Immunotherapy Gets 90 Pct Remission
16 October 2014. Nine in 10 children and adults in early-stage clinical trials of a personalized therapy harnessing the patients’ immune systems achieved full remission of their acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The findings of the team from University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are reported today in New England Journal of Medicine (paid subscription…
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Robot for MRI-Guided Epilepsy Surgery in Development
16 October 2014. Engineers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville are building a robot for epilepsy surgery guided by MRI scans and designed to be less invasive than current surgical methods. The team from Vanderbilt, with colleagues from Georgia Tech and Milwaukee School of Engineering, are demonstrating a prototype of the device this week at the…