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  • Heart Disease in Lab Recreated with Stem Cells, Chip Device

    12 May 2014. Medical and engineering researchers from Harvard University and affiliated hospitals created heart tissue with a genetic disorder on a chip-like device in the lab using stem cells. The results point to a new method for personalized lab testing of therapies for cardiac patients with cells derived from their own tissue, as well…

  • 1.1M Health Center Patients Left Uninsured in Opt-Out States

    9 May 2014. A new report estimates some 1.1 million clients of community health centers will be left without health insurance in U.S. states that choose not to expand Medicaid, as permitted under the Affordable Care Act. The report was prepared by the School of Public Health at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. A…

  • App Measures Health Status with Basic Smartphone Technology

    8 May 2014. Computer scientists and medical researchers at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and Chicago designed a mobile app that uses technology already built in today’s smartphones to track basic health indicators. The team led by Illinois computer scientist Bruce Schatz appears in the 10 May 2014 issue of the journal Telemedicine and e-Health.…

  • Biopharm, University Partner on Universal Flu Vaccine

    8 May 2014. Etubics Corp. in Seattle and University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston are developing a new type of flu vaccine that aims to provide continuous protection against a variety of seasonal virus strains. The five-year project is funded by a $4.4 million grant from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),…

  • Immune Therapeutics Start-Up Raises $37.5M in Early Funding

    6 May 2014. Anokion SA in Lausanne, Switzerland, a start-up enterprise developing therapies to treat immune systems disorders, raised 33 million Swiss francs ($US 37.5 million) in its first venture financing round. The round was led by Novartis Venture Fund, and two life-science investment companies — Novo Ventures and Versant Ventures — with participation from…

  • Study Aims to Boost Wireless Channel Management, Performance

    5 May 2014. Researchers from University at Buffalo and the engineering company Andro Computational Solutions in Rome, New York are analyzing a scheme to make better use of the wireless radio spectrum and boost performance for the burgeoning number of devices with wireless connections. The four-year, $2.72 million project is funded by the U.S. Air Force Research…

  • NYU Medical Center Starts Drug Discovery Partnership Program

    1 May 2014. New York University’s Langone Medical Center unveiled an initiative to establish more partnerships with drug and biotechnology companies that move initial therapeutic targets into active drug development programs. NYU’s Office of Therapeutics Alliances, says the university, aims to fill the translation gap or “valley of death” between research performed by academic scientists…

  • MERS Vaccine Candidate Produces Immune Response in Lab Test

    30 April 2014. Researchers at the biotechnology company Novavax Inc. in Gaithersburg, Maryland and University of Maryland medical school in Baltimore found new vaccines made from engineered protein nanoparticles generated in lab mice an immune response to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) viruses. The team led by Maryland…

  • Alzheimer’s Brain Stimulation Implants Completed for Trial

    30 April 2014. A clinical trial testing the safety and potential benefit of deep brain stimulation to treat Alzheimer’s disease completed implanting stimulation devices in enrolled patients in the U.S. and Canada. Functional Neuromodulation Ltd, in Toronto and Charlottesville, Virginia says it expects to report the first results from the trial in the second quarter…

  • Tablet App Provides Feedback, Improves Drug Adherence

    29 April 2014. Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh designed and tested a tablet app, connected to electronic sensors on a pillbox, that provides feedback to older adults and helps them stick to their medication schedules. Anind Dey, a professor in Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and former Ph.D. student Matthew Lee, now…