Tag: university
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Small Business Grant Funds Diabetes Rescue Device
A device to rescue people with diabetes experiencing low blood sugar is being developed by an Indiana company and Purdue University pharmacy lab.
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Trial Tests Diabetes Drug for Smoking Cessation
A clinical trial began enrolling participants to test the ability of a drug approved for treating diabetes, to also help people stop smoking cigarettes
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Smartphone System Detects Diabetic Eye Disease
An ophthalmology lab at University of Michigan developed a smartphone-based system that speeds screening for an eye disease resulting from diabetes.
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DNA Nanoscale Capsules Designed for Drug Delivery
Researchers in Finland developed tiny drug-delivery capsules made of folded pieces of DNA, with the capsules opening and closing in specified chemical environments.
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Closed-Loop System Boosts Diabetes Glucose Control
A clinical trial shows an algorithm-driven glucose monitor and insulin pump system provides better control of glucose levels for people with type 1 diabetes than an insulin pump alone.
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Microrobot Swarm Breaks Up Bacterial Biofilms
A medical-engineering team designed tiny robots that in lab tests remove large patches of bacterial communities called biofilms found growing on medical devices and human teeth.
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A.I. Speeds Infant Genetic Disease Diagnostics
Hospital, academic, and industry researchers devised automated techniques including artificial intelligence to sharply reduce the time for diagnosing genetic diseases in infants.
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Natural-Sounding Speech Produced from Brain Signals
A neuroscience lab created a virtual speech-generating vocal system that produces natural sounding human speech by interpreting activity in the brain.
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Simple Process Devised for Synthetic Mother-of-Pearl
Researchers in the U.S. and Europe developed a simple, inexpensive, and sustainable process to grow synthetic nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl.
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Crispr Made More Immune-System Safe
Researchers at Arizona State University created a process to make the genome editing technique Crispr less likely to cause an immune system reaction in patients.