Tag: engineering
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Alphabet Forms AI Drug Discovery Company
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is forming a new enterprise using artificial intelligence techniques to discover new protein-based drugs.
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Data Partnership Aims for Precise Parkinson’s Care
A medical device maker is offering brain stimulation data to a neurological software company to provide personalized care for people with Parkinson’s disease.
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Consortium to Build Commercial Space Station
A group of aerospace companies and university researchers revealed plans to build and deploy a commercial space station in low-earth orbit.
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Clinician Guidance App Designed for Depression
Neuroscientists and a software company designed a smartphone app to help front-line professionals diagnose and start treatment for patients with depression.
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AI-Designed Antibodies for Start-Up Sought in Open Call
An international consortium is seeking teams of scientists using algorithms to design new therapeutic antibodies, to form and fund a start-up company.
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Trial Shows Wearable Device Reduces Migraine Symptoms
Results from a clinical trial show a smartphone-wearable system relieves pain and reduces other symptoms in adult patients with chronic migraine.
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NIH Funds Brain-Computer Implant Device
A developer of implanted devices to record signals from brain cells received funding to advance a smaller and more durable electrode array.
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Small Biz Grant to ID Digital Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s
National Institutes of Health is awarding a grant to identify indicators of Alzheimer’s disease in a company’s collecting of life stories from older people.
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Lab Demonstrates 3-D Printed Tissue, Blood Vessel Implant
A biomedical engineering team transplanted into a lab rat synthetic tissue with blood vessels made by three-dimensional printing.
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Seed Stage Investors Raise $450M for New Fund
A venture capital company specializing in financing start-up enterprises at their earliest stages says it raised $450 million for its third venture fund.