Tag: life sciences
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FDA Clears Genetic Cancer Risk Detection Test
The Food and Drug Administration authorized marketing of a genetic test for detecting hundreds of gene variants associated with a higher risk of developing certain cancers.
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Biotech Thymus Tissue Process Gains ARPA-H Funding
A company with a process to generate new thymus tissue for immune system functions is receiving a $37 million award from the government’s health breakthrough agency.
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Cardiac Tech Start-Up Partners with Mayo Clinic
A new company developing digital cardiac diagnostics is collaborating with the Mayo Clinic on early detection of coronary artery disease, a key trigger of heart attacks.
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Trial Shows Broad Coronavirus Immune Response
Initial results from a clinical trial show an experimental vaccine produces immune responses in healthy adults against Covid-19 variants and a range of other coronaviruses.
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Small Biz Award Funds Wearable Drug Delivery Patch
A developer of medical devices designed as skin patches received a contract to develop a device to deliver any drug approved by FDA for delivery through the skin.
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FDA Clears Biotech Seasonal Flu Treatment Trial
A start-up biotechnology company says it received the okay for its investigational new drug application of an anti-viral drug to treat a whole class of seasonal flu strains.
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Biotech, Univ. Labs Test Psychoactive Drug as PTSD Therapy
A developer of treatments with psychedelic compounds for brain disorders is partnering with a lab at Yale University to assess methylone as a PTSD therapy.
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Genomics Company, Amazon Partner on Generative A.I.
A genomics company is providing precision medicine analytics from its databases with generative A.I. based on large language models from Amazon Web Services.
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Biosensor Developed to Detect Explosives, Land Mines
Researchers from a university biochemistry lab and company developing synthetic enzymes designed techniques using engineered bacteria to detect buried land mines at longer distances.
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Challenge Seeks Point-of-Care, Home Maternal Health Technologies
A crowdsourced competition offered by NIH is seeking new technologies to monitor the health and detect early problems with new babies and their mothers, at the point of care or in the home.