Tag: university
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Smartwatch Monitor Boosts Parkinson’s Care
A university in the U.K. designed a home-based care plan for people with Parkinson’s disease that uses a smartwatch device to monitor their conditions.
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FDA Expands Evidence Project to Replace Trials
The Food and Drug Administration is expanding a demonstration project with a Boston teaching hospital that tests the value of real world evidence to replace some clinical trials.
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Human-Friendly Robot Designed for A.I.
A robotics team at University of California in Berkeley designed a device to learn about humans’ needs with artificial intelligence and respond gently to their presence.
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Autonomous Robots Designed for Flood Projects
As towns and cities face more threats of floods from climate change, a new type of autonomous robot offers a technology to help prevent or contain the damage.
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Process Devised for Sensor-Fitted Personal Prosthetics
Biomedical engineers developed techniques to produce low-cost personalized electronic-enabled prosthetic devices for people with limb loss.
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Virtual Reality Harnessed to View Inside Blood Vessels
A medical team demonstrated the feasibility of virtual reality to visualize and guide a catheter inside blood vessels through a three-dimensional human model.
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Biotechs Join Forces for Off-the-Shelf Stem Cells
Two biotechnology enterprises working in genome editing and regenerative medicine are sharing their technologies to develop off-the-shelf cell therapies.
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Radiation-Antibody Biotech Raises $105M in Venture Funds
A company creating cancer treatments that combine radiation therapy with the targeting of synthetic antibodies is raising $105 million in its second round of venture financing.
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Immuno-, Chemotherapy Shown to Shrink Pancreatic Cancers
Early results from a clinical trial show a combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy drugs shrunk tumors in most participants with pancreatic cancer.
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Genetic Risk Analysis Shows Ethnic Bias
Techniques analyzing data from across the genome that reveal risks of diseases, better predict disorders in the main ethnicity of the population studied than other ethnic groups.