Tag: university
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Stress, Diet Apps Numerous but Offer Only Short Term Help
30 May 2014. Online and mobile apps for stress management and healthy eating are numerous and gaining more users, but their impact appears to be short lived, according to an analysis by a researcher in Finland. Kirsikka Kaipainen, a research scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre in Espoo, Finland, published her findings earlier this month…
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Epigenetics Biotech Secures $12.9 Million Early Financing
30 May 2014. Rodin Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company in Boston developing therapies based on epigenetics — inherited changes in genetic activity outside of DNA — raised $12.9 million in its first venture funding round. The company is a joint venture of Proteros biostructures GmbH in Munich and Atlas Ventures in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rodin Therapeutics…
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More Efficient Growth Factor Delivery Technique Devised
29 May 2014. Biologists and engineers at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta developed a new process that delivers tissue-building proteins used in regenerative medicine known as growth factors in much higher concentrations than current methods. The team led by Georgia Tech bioengineering professor Todd McDevitt published its findings online yesterday in the journal Biomaterials…
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Ohio State, Cancer Center Partner on Research Database
28 May 2014. Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa and Ohio State University’s Comprehensive Cancer Center in Columbus are launching a repository of patient data and tumor samples to speed development of therapies and better match patients to clinical trials. Financial details of the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network or Orien created by the collaboration were…
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Medical Centers to Develop Brain Signal Tracking, Therapies
28 May 2014. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and University of California in San Francisco are developing technologies to analyze brain activity and deliver near real-time neural stimulation therapies. The five-year project is funded by grants from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of $30 million and $26 million respectively to Mass. General and UC-San…
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Drug Sensitivity Target Identified for Mesothelioma Therapy
27 May 2014. Researchers at the biopharmaceutical company Verastem Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts found the loss of a certain tumor suppressor improves responsiveness to therapies targeting cancer stem cells that treat mesothelioma, an aggressive form of lung cancer. The team led by Verastem’s research director Jonathan Pachter, with colleagues from Fox Chase Cancer Center in…
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Industrial Scale Graphene Production Process Devised
23 May 2014. Engineers at University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and glass manufacturer Guardian Industries developed a process for producing graphene that overcomes many of the obstacles preventing industrial-scale production of this material. The findings of a research team led by MIT’s John Hart and Guardian’s Vijayen Veerasamy appear online today in the…
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Diagnostic Software Developed to Analyze Video for Autism
22 May 2014. Computer scientists and medical researchers at Duke University in North Carolina developed software that uses computer vision to analyze video of an infant’s behavior for signs of autism spectrum disorder. The team from the lab of Duke computer engineering professor Guillermo Sapiro — with colleagues from Duke, University of Minnesota, and University…
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Pfizer, Biotech to Partner on Brown Fat Cell Research
22 May 2014. BioRestorative Therapies Inc. in Jupiter, Florida and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. in New York are conducting a joint study of human brown fat tissue and cell lines, to discover more about their use as a platform for therapies for type 2 diabetes and obesity. Financial and intellectual property aspects of the…
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Engineered Microbes Created to Clean Biodiesel Waste
21 May 2014. Microbiologists at Michigan State University in East Lansing created a process with two types of genetically-engineered bacteria that work together to clean up the waste water in the production of biodiesel, and generate ethanol as a byproduct. The team led by Michigan State’s Gemma Reguera published its findings online earlier this month…