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Space Data Start-Up Raises $1.3M from Angels, Crowdfunding
NanoSatisfi, a start-up company in San Francisco offering low-priced space-based data services, raised $1.2 million in seed capital, to go along with more than $100,000 collected last summer through crowdfunding. The company announced the funding round yesterday on Twitter, with details reported on the technology and business news Web site TechCrunch. Anthony Ha of TechCrunch…
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No Disability Improvement Seen from Clot Device After Stroke
A clinical trial shows devices inserted into an artery after a stroke to remove a blood clot, used with clot-dissolving drugs, do not improve chances of living independently after 90 days compared to the use of drugs alone. The results of the study, funded by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the…
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Trial Tests Tablet App to Assess Neuromuscular Performance
Biomedical researchers at Harvard University tested a computer tablet application to quickly assess neuromuscular disorders, such as those experienced by older adults. The team from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Institute for Aging Research at Harvard Medical School, with colleagues from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, published their findings online…
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Statistical Database Analysis Links Genes, High Cholesterol
Researchers at University of Massachusetts in Amherst and University of Pennsylvania developed a technique for analyzing public databases with open-source software to discover populations at genetic risk for disease at lower cost. The team led by UMass biostatistician Andrea Foulkes (pictured right) reported its findings yesterday in the online journal PLoS One. The technique called…
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Nanotech Capsule Delivers Cancer Drugs, Spares Healthy Cells
Engineers at University of California in Los Angeles and University of Southern California developed tiny degradable capsules that can deliver cancer treatments directly to tumors, sparing healthy cells from damage. The team led by UCLA professor Yi Tang published its findings online in the journal Nano Today (paid subscription required). Tang (pictured left) and colleagues…
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Study to Test if Hearing Aids Reduce Falls by Elderly
Researchers at University of Texas in Dallas and North Texas University in Fort Worth are evaluating if hearing aids and related technologies can improve the balance of people with auditory problems. The study is funded by a $100,000 grant from the Texas Medical Research Collaborative. Sense of balance relies on the vestibular system of the…
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Janssen R&D Opens Lab Space to Individual Entrepreneurs
Janssen Labs at San Diego, part of Janssen Research and Development and the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, is expanding its open laboratory facilities to individual life science entrepreneurs to conduct early stage research. The facility, open for a year, is already home to 18 start-up companies in the life sciences. Janssen Labs is housed…
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Clinical Trials To Test More Tamiflu Effects, Plasma on Flu
National Institutes of Health plans three new clinical trials of influenza therapies, two trials involving the current flu drug oseltamivir, and a third trial testing plasma enriched with anti-influenza antibodies. The clinical studies, for which NIH is seeking volunteers, are being held at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland and at 36 other sites elsewhere in the…
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Kauffman CEO: New Venture Capital Structure Needed
Kauffman Foundation CEO Tom McDonnell called for a new relationship between venture capital financiers and high-growth start-up enterprises to better reflect the long-term needs of these companies. McDonnell made the remarks in a speech on the state of entrepreneurship in the U.S. at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation…
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3D Printing Reproduces Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Biomedical engineers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. and the company Roslin Cellab also near Edinburgh developed a lab technique with ink-jet printing to build human embryonic stem cells. The team led by Heriot-Watt professor Will Wenmiao Shu published its findings yesterday in the journal Biofabrication (available free with regisration for 30 days). While…