Tag: heart disease
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Crispr Heart Disease Biotech Raises $94M in New Funds
A company applying Crispr gene-editing technology to treat inherited heart disease is raising $94 million in its second venture funding round.
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AI Process Devised for Drug Repurposing
A biomedical informatics lab developed techniques with artificial intelligence to find new uses for existing drugs from millions of electronic health records.
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Fitness, Phone Data Captured for Heart Health Project
A digital health company is partnering with a cardiologist group to capture data from smartphones and wearable devices to provide users personalized heart health information.
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Trial Assesses Remote Drug-Phone Blood Pressure Mgmt
A clinical trial is testing a combination of smartphone reporting and medication to help individuals personalize their blood pressure therapy.
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Flexible Device Attaches to Heart, Monitors Functions
Biomedical engineers designed a thin flexible implantable patch that attaches to the heart, monitors its functions, and can perform therapeutics.
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Engineered Heart Tissue Mechanisms Probed
A research institute is partnering with a company creating heart tissue patches from stem cells to better understand the details of how the patch works.
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Heart Disease Biotech Acquired in $13.1B Deal
A company developing precision medicine drugs to treat inherited heart disorders was acquired by drug maker Bristol Myers Squibb, or BMS, for $13.1 billion.
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Phone Camera, A.I. Detect Early Diabetes
Researchers devised techniques with a smartphone app, and data analyzed with artificial intelligence, to identify people in early stages of type 2 diabetes.
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Women’s Heart Health Diagnostics in the Works
An organization for redressing health disparities faced by women awarded a new grant to advance better tools for predicting risk of women’s heart disease.
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Crispr Heart Therapy Demonstrated in Monkeys
An experimental therapy using a precise gene editing technique is shown in lab monkeys to reverse the cause of a chronic form of heart disease.