Tag: mathematics
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Knowledge Bank Tapped for Precision Cancer Treatments
An international research team devised techniques for analyzing accumulated clinical trial data to help determine precise treatment strategies for people with cancer.
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Wearable Health Devices Offer Early Disease Detection
An analysis of data from mobile fitness and health tracking devices shows the devices can yield useful results for monitoring a person’s health, including early alerts to the onset of some diseases.
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Wearable Device Senses Environment for Sight Impaired
A research lab in Finland designed a wearable device using radar to help people with impaired sight sense other people and objects when outdoors.
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Precision Health Tech Network Expands, Invests $400M
Digital Life Alliance, a consortium of enterprises applying advanced technologies to health and medicine that plans to offer personalized solutions, is expanding to 7 members, as well as iCarbonX, the company that founded the network.
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Spin-Off Creates Enzyme to Prevent Celiac Disease
A spin-off enterprise from University of Washington is developing a synthetic enzyme that prevents dietary gluten from triggering symptoms of celiac disease.
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Project to Design Hybrid Stroke Imaging Technology
An alliance of academic and industry researchers in Europe is developing a single imaging device that can save valuable time in diagnosing a stroke.
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Human-Like Soft Touch Robotic Sensors Developed
A robotic hand with built-in sensors that can sense fine differences in shape and texture is being developed in an engineering lab at Cornell University.
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IBM, Rice Univ. Partner on Elder Care Robots
IBM is developing Watson super-computer and cloud computing applications with Rice University to create robot assistants that help older individuals remain safe in their own homes.
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Targeted Leukemia Drugs Sharply Raising Costs of Care
Drugs directly attacking cancer cell growth show high remission rates with a common form of leukemia, but a new study suggests the high costs of these drugs could impose difficult economic burdens on patients and the health care system.
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Fertility Device Company Gains $9.7M in Early Funds
A two year-old medical device enterprise making a fertility tracker for women is raising $9.7 million in its first venture finance round.