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Football Head Hits May Need More Than Off-Season to Heal
17 April 2014. Researchers at University of Rochester in New York found college football players may need more than the standard six months from the end of one season to the start of the next for their brains to recover from blows to the head. The team led by Rochester’s Jeffrey Bazarian, a professor emergency…
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Early Trial Shows Immunotherapy Evidence With Some Tumors
16 April 2014. A clinical trial of a cancer vaccine developed by biopharmaceutical company Celldex Therapeutics Inc. in Hampton, New Jersey shows it generated an immune response which affected the growth of tumors in some patients with advanced stages of cancer. The early-stage trial, conducted with researchers from seven university or research institute labs appears…
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IT Firm, University Partner on Alzheimer’s Research Platform
16 April 2014. Parabon Computation in Reston, Virginia is creating a crowd-sourced computer network to provide the analytical power for two research studies on Alzheimer’s disease conducted in-house and with George Mason University in nearby Fairfax. The initiative, called Compute Against Alzheimer’s Disease, aims to tap into unused capacity of idle computers donated for this…
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Blood Glucose Control Drug Approved for Type 2 Diabetes
15 April 2014. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug albiglutide to help adults with type 2 diabetes control their blood glucose levels. Albiglutide is marketed in the U.S. under the brand name by Tanzeum by the global pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline. Diabetes is a chronic condition where the pancreas does not create enough…
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Intelligent Liner Aims to Improve Prosthetic Limb Comfort
15 April 2014. Engineers in the U.K. at University of Southampton and Chas A Blatchford & Son Ltd. in Basingstoke are designing a liner with sensors for lower-limb prosthetic devices that improve the fit and comfort of those devices for their wearers. The team is developing a prototype device that they aim to have available…
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Microparticle Solution Devised to Identify Genuine Goods
14 April 2014. Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the affiliated Lincoln Laboratory developed a process for adding minute particles into materials that can be encoded and sensed by inexpensive readers to detect counterfeit goods from the originals. The team from the lab of chemical engineering professor Patrick Doyle published its findings yesterday online…
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On the Road Again
9 April 2014. Science & Enterprise is taking a brief hiatus, while I travel for the remainder of this week, 10-12 April. The blog will return on Monday, 14 April. * * *
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MRSA Toxicity Predicted Through Genomic Sequencing
9 April 2014. Researchers in the U.K., U.S., Sweden, and Turkey developed a technique based on genomic sequencing to predict the pathogenic severity of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA bacteria, an antibiotic-resistant microbe often found in health care facilities. The team led by University of Bath biologist Ruth Massey published its findings today online…
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UC-San Francisco Launches Brain Disease Trial Registry
9 April 2014. University of California in San Francisco opened an online registry that aims to reduce the time and cost of recruiting participants in clinical trials for disorders of the brain, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease and traumatic brain injuries. The Brain Health Registry is led by UC-San Francisco radiology professor Michael Weiner,…
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University, Board Maker Partner on Point-of-Care Diagnostics
8 April 2014. Computer scientists in the U.K. at Southampton University and circuit board manufacturer Newbury Electronics Ltd. are designing a device to detect protein indicators for diagnosing diseases at a doctor’s office or clinic rather than sending out samples to a lab for analysis. The three-year project led by Southampton’s Themis Prodromakis, is funded…