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Contract Awarded for Influenza Vaccine and Immune Booster
NanoBio Corporation in Ann Arbor, Michigan received a new contract from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of National Institutes of Health, for development of a pandemic influenza vaccine and adjuvant to boost the immune response of that vaccine. The initial contract value is $5.5 million, but the company says it would be…
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Algorithm Designed for Cars to Alleviate Traffic Jams
A computer science professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology proposed a mathematical model for monitoring traffic flow in cars to prevent temporary traffic jams that could be implemented with technology already in some vehicles. Berthold Horn, a faculty member in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, discussed his algorithm earlier this month at IEEE’s…
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Jewelry-Like Devices in Development to Enable Mobile Health
Computer scientists and engineers at Clemson University in South Carolina and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire are collaborating on electronic devices worn like jewelry to improve the capture of data for mobile health applications, while maintaining an individual’s privacy and security. The three-year Amulet project, as the initiative is known, is funded by National Science…
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DNAnexus, Baylor Partner on Large-Scale Genomic Analysis
Genomics and bioinformatics researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and analytical services company DNAnexus in Mountain View, California are collaborating on large-scale genomic sequencing for research and clinical applications, with a cloud computing platform. The partnership already processed genomic data from more than 14,000 individuals for a genetics analysis on heart disease and…
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Clinical Trial Tests Ultrasound Device to Boost Stroke Drugs
A clinical trial found an ultrasound device safe for ischemic stroke patients and helpful for many of these patients in dissolving blood clots in their brains. Researchers from University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, with colleagues from University of Alabama-Birmingham and medical centers in Germany, tested the device in an intermediate-stage trial with 20…
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Simple Solar Water System Devised to Kill Pathogens
Engineering and food science faculty at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana designed a solar device to kill waterborne bacteria that the inventors say can help provide clean drinking water to millions of people in developing countries. Civil and environmental engineering professor Ernest “Chip” Blatchley and food science biologist Bruce Applegate, with the help of students,…
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3-D Printer Maker Lands $19 Million in First Venture Funds
Formlabs, a developer of three-dimensional printing technology in Somerville, Massachusetts, secured $19 million in its first venture funding. The financing round was led by venture capital company DFJ, with Pitango Venture Capital, Innovation Endeavors, and returning angel investors. Formlabs is a spin-off from MIT’s Media Lab, founded in 2011 by three engineers and designers. The…
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Consortium Funds Bio-Semiconductor Component Research
Semiconductor Research Corporation in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina is supporting research at six universities on components performing electronic functions, but based on biological models. The $2.25 million Semiconductor Synthetic Biology research studies will be conducted at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Yale, Georgia Tech, Brigham Young, and University of Washington. Semiconductor Research…
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Network Analysis Shows Drug Resistant Infection Factors
Operations researchers and computer scientists at University of Maryland in College Park and American University in Washington, D.C. identified interpersonal network interactions that help spread antibiotic resistant infections through a hospital. Maryland business professors Sean Barnes and Bruce Golden, with American University information technology faculty Edward Wasil, published their findings earlier this month in the…
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Panel Recommends Steps for Sharing Patient Trial Data
A study group of academics and pharmaceutical industry experts recommends expanding access to data from clinical trials, including data on individual participants, under tight protocols and conditions.