Tag: engineering
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Cancer-Fighting Protein Designed to Cut Adverse Effects
A computational biology lab designed a synthetic protein that works like natural cancer-fighting proteins, but in lab mice kills cancer cells with few adverse effects.
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Electronic Tags Assessed to Boost Clinic Care
A medical school eye clinic is asking clinicians and patients to wear radio-frequency tags that track their time and movements to improve the clinic’s efficiency and quality of care.
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Algorithms Identify More Genetic Syndromes
An analysis of facial images with computer vision and deep learning returned more accurate identifications of genetic syndromes than 3 panels of trained clinicians
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Genetic Acids Harnessed to Promote Wound Healing
A bioengineering team designed a way to use acids in DNA that in lab tests promote wound repair by encouraging production of healing proteins in surrounding tissues.
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Tissue Chip, A.I. Companies Partner on Heart Drug Discovery
A developer of chip devices emulating heart tissue and a medical analytics company using artificial intelligence are jointly discovering new drugs to treat aging heart muscles.
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Inhaled Messenger RNA Developed, Tested
An academic-industry team developed an inhaled form of genetic material in nanoscale particles that enables lab mice to safely produce proteins in their lungs.
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AI, Wearables Posing Health Privacy Risks
An analysis shows artificial intelligence algorithms can connect Americans’ activity tracking data to to their individual private medical information.
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Trial Testing Breath Detection for Cancer
A clinical trial is recruiting participants to test a technology that analyzes exhaled breath for indicators of specific types of cancer.
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Brain Stimulation, Recording Device Advances
An implanted device that both records activity and stimulates precise brain regions is shown to operate in lab monkeys, advancing its potential for neurological diseases.
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Toxic Neuro Protein Clearance Company Formed
A new enterprise is being formed to develop a device that clears from the nervous system toxic proteins associated with chronic and debilitating neurological disorders.