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The Three Most Revolutionary Emerging Sciences
Advanced technology has created new areas of study, so here are the top three.
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Exosuit Shown to Improve Walking for Stroke Patients
A robotic device built and worn like clothing helps improve lower-limb walking performance for a group of people partially paralyzed with stroke.
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RNA Vaccine for Rabies Found Safe, Generates Antibodies
A vaccine to prevent rabies made from messenger RNA, genetic material transcribed from DNA, was shown in a clinical trial to be generally safe and able under some conditions to induce antibodies.
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Make Sure Your Employees Thrive
For business owners, happy, productive and motivated employees are essential for success.
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Tough Ingested Hydrogels Designed for Long-Term Drugs
A medical engineering team developed and tested in animals a new water-based polymer material to deliver drugs for long-term release in the stomach.
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Takeda, Biosurfaces Partner on Nanofiber Devices
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company is joining with a developer of medical devices from nanoscale bioactive fibers to design new devices for gastrointestinal, or GI, disorders.
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Faster Process Devised for Targeted Antibodies
Researchers in the U.S. and U.K. designed techniques for quickly generating highly targeted antibodies in the lab, which can speed production of new vaccines and therapies.
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Lilly Licensing Autoimmune Therapy in $400M Deal
Drug maker Eli Lilly and Company is licensing a therapy from a biotechnology company that produces self-correcting cells for people with disorders caused by a malfunctioning immune system.
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Clinical Trial Begins for Liver Dialysis Device
A clinical trial is underway in Europe testing a device that works like dialysis to clear toxins from the blood associated with liver failure, where a transplant is often the only option.
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S&P 500 Tech Stocks Surpass Dot-Com Peak
On Wednesday, Standard & Poor’s index of 500 stocks in the information technology industry closed at 992.29, its highest point since March 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom, when the index reached 988.49.