Tag: life sciences
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Covid-19 Vaccines, Therapies – 17 August 2020
The number of new Covid-19 therapies increased by eight over the past week to 364, while the number of therapies in clinical trials also jumped by eight.
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Women’s Heart Health Diagnostics in the Works
An organization for redressing health disparities faced by women awarded a new grant to advance better tools for predicting risk of women’s heart disease.
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Start-Up Developing Microbial Cancer Detection Tests
A new company, spun off from university biomedical engineering labs, is creating early cancer diagnostics by analyzing microbial genetics in simple blood samples.
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Small Biz Grant Advances Neuro Protection Drugs
An NIH award to a biotechnology company funds discovery of drugs that protect brain cells from degenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease.
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Hospitals Testing Fast Covid-19 Diagnostic
A New England hospital system is assessing with real patients a point-of-care test for Covid-19 viruses that returns results in about an hour.
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Muti-Focus Contact Lenses Slow Children’s Myopia
Results of a clinical trial show contact lenses that focus light on multiple areas of the retina reduce near-sightedness in children.
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A.I. Discovery Company Raises $123M in Venture Funds
A company using image analysis and deep learning to discover therapies for diseases often considered difficult to treat is raising $123 million in new venture funds.
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Trial Testing Rare Disease Drug for Covid-19 Pneumonia
A clinical trial is underway assessing a drug approved for a rare inherited disease as a treatment for people hospitalized with pneumonia from Covid-19 infections.
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Breath Analysis Sensor Licensed to Detect Covid-19
Discoveries in a university lab that enable detection of Covid-19 infections from a person’s breath are being licensed for development by a biotechnology company.
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Giant Hornet Genome Sequenced
The genome of the Asian giant hornet, a species threatening bees and humans, was analyzed, with the data released by the Agricultural Research Service.