Tag: university
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School Meal Standards Lead to More Fruit, Veggies Eaten
4 March 2014. A study by public health researchers at Harvard University shows children eating lunch at school increased their consumption of fruit and vegetables after new school lunch standards took effect. The team led by nutrition research fellow Juliana Cohen published its results online today in American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Cohen and colleagues…
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FDA Fast-Tracks Depression Drug from Northwestern Spin-Off
Naurex Inc., a biotechnology company in Evanston, Illinois, says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted fast-track status for its drug candidate code-named GLYX-13 to treat depression. GLYX-13 is Naurex’s lead product for treatment of central nervous system disorders. The company develops drugs for diseases of the central nervous system that stimulate N-Methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors,…
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Genocea, Harvard, Dana-Farber to Partner on Melanoma
3 March 2014. Genocea Biosciences, a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Research Institute, are testing the company’s vaccine discovery platform to help target therapies for melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer. The collaboration is funded by Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, but financial aspects of the partnership…
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Asthma Drug Helps Desensitize Multiple Food Allergies
28 February 2014. Medical researchers at Stanford University in California and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found in an early-stage clinical trial that an asthma drug dramatically reduces the time needed for patients to lower their sensitivity to several food allergies at one time. The team led by Stanford’s Kari Nadeau and Johns Hopkins’s Robert Hamilton…
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Mobile Low-Power Gesture-Recognition System Developed
27 February 2014. Computer scientists and engineers at University of Washington in Seattle developed an inexpensive gesture recognition system for mobile devices that consumes minimal power, with potential applications in robotics and “Internet-of-things” computing. The team led by Shyam Gollakota, director of the university’s Networks and Wireless Lab, presents its work on 3 April at the…
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Walgreens, UCSF Partner on Patient Medication Management
26 February 2014. The Walgreens pharmacy chain and University of California in San Francisco are collaborating on new pharmacy services that help patients manage medications to improve their overall health. The company and university are testing this new retail model in a Walgreens store located near the UCSF campus, but financial aspects of the arrangement…
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Implanted Heart Membrane Device Created by 3-D Printer
25 February 2014. Engineers and medical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and University of Illinois in Champaign used a three-dimensional printer to create a membrane that fits over the heart, with electronic components to monitor its functions. The team led by Washington University’s Igor Efimov and Illinois’s John Rogers published its findings today…
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Paper Test Strips Devised to Diagnose Cancer, Blood Clots
25 February 2014. Biomedical engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed and tested with lab mice a simple, inexpensive paper test strip system to diagnose non-communicable diseases. The team led by medical engineering professor Sangeeta Bhatia published its findings online yesterday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (paid subscription required). Early…
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Natural Regenerative Cellular Matrix Frame Grown in Lab
24 February 2014. Biomedical engineers at Michigan Technological University in Houghton and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina developed a process for creating a framework needed to turn stem cells into engineered regenerative tissue. The research team led by Michigan Tech professor Feng Zhao published its findings online in a recent issue of the journal…
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Samsung, UCSF to Partner on Mobile Health Care Technologies
21 February 2014. University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) and Samsung Electronics Company are establishing a lab to develop and test new mobile technologies in health care. Financial and intellectual property arrangements for the new UCSF-Samsung Digital Health Innovation Lab were not disclosed. UCSF says mobile health technologies have not yet reached their potential…