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  • Tilted Screen Displays Developed for Mobile Devices

    Computer scientists at University of Bristol and Lancaster University in the U.K. and Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland created a display technology that can physically adjust parts of the screen at different angles to provide more dramatic 3-D effects. The developers of the Tilt Displays, as the screen is called, will discuss the technology…

  • European Approval Granted for Implanted Migraine Device

    St. Jude Medical Inc., a medical device developer in St. Paul, Minnesota, received a CE mark indicating regulatory approval in Europe for its Eon line of neurostimulators to treat chronic migraine. The CE mark, an acronym for the French Conformité Européene, indicates a product meets safety, health and environmental protection requirements in the 27 EU…

  • FDA Approves Inhaled Aerosol Asthma Maintenance Drug

    Acton Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Marlborough, Massachusetts reports the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its drug Aerospan, an orally inhaled corticosteroid for the prevention of asthma attacks. The FDA approval, says Acton, came in response to a supplemental new drug application, and will enable the company to launch the drug in the U.S. during the…

  • NSF Grant to Fund Study of Energy Storage Nanomaterials

    A physics professor at Clemson University in South Carolina will lead a team developing new nanoscale carbon materials for storing energy, funded by a grant from National Science Foundation. The four-year, $1.2 million project is headed by physicist Apparao Rao and includes participants from Clemson and the University of California-San Diego. The research is expected…

  • Health IT Accelerator Formed, Seeks Entrepreneur Applicants

    Tigerlabs, a support center for start-up companies in Princeton, New Jersey, is forming an accelerator program for new companies in health care information technology. The program, known as Tigerlabs Health, is scheduled to begin in February 2013, and accepting applications through 15 November 2012. The accelerator program will provide $20,000 in seed funding, mentorship, Microsoft…

  • Pharmas to Collaborate on Improving Clinical Trial Process

    Ten of the world’s larger pharmaceutical companies formed a non-profit organization to improve the way clinical drug studies, a major time and financial expense, are conducted. Abbott, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Genentech (a division of the Roche Group), and Sanofi will take part in the…

  • DNA Bar Codes Help Authenticate Natural Health Products

    Researchers at University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada found DNA identification successfully verified a vast majority of natural health products sold  in two North American cities. The study led by Mehrdad Hajibabaei, in Guelph’s integrative biology department and Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, appears online in the journal Food Research International (paid subscription required). Hajibabaei says…

  • University to Build Toxic Gas Sensor for Firefighters

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts received a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop a portable sensor that alerts firefighters to the presence of toxic gases in burning buildings. The $1 million award will support the work of researchers in WPI’s Fire Protection Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments. The project…

  • Purdue, Adobe Create Process to Strengthen 3-D Print Objects

    Computer scientists at Purdue University in Indiana and computer software company Adobe Systems devised an automated process to add more robustness to objects created through three-dimensional printing. The researchers discussed their methods in a presentation last month at the SIGGRAPH 2012 conference in Los Angeles. 3-D printers create shapes by adding various materials layer-by-layer, including…

  • Polymer Nanoparticles Tested to Respond,Treat Inflammation

    Pharmaceutical scientists and engineers at University of California in San Diego developed a degradable polymer in nanoscale form that can respond to measurable concentrations of hydrogen peroxide, an indicator of inflammation associated with many disorders. The team led by pharmacy professor Adah Almutairi (pictured left) published its findings online earlier this month in the Journal…