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(VA.gov) Clinicians at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut report on advances in ultrasound technology that make it a tool used increasingly for specialties outside of radiology. Yale medical school faculty members Christopher Moore and Joshua Copel describe these advances in this week’s issue of the New England Journal . . . → Read More: Ultrasound Advances to Bedside for Routine Diagnoses  Comments are closed  New products, Regulations  biomedical, engineering, life sciences, medical device, university E coli bacteria magnified (USDA Agricultural Research Service/Wikimedia Commons) Chemistry researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed a technology for a cheap, portable, paper-based water treatment system when disasters like floods or earthquakes strike. The team’s findings were published earlier this month in the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (paid . . . → Read More: Nanotech Emergency Water Treatment Technology Devised One comment - (Comments are closed) New products Canada, life sciences, materials science, nanotechnology, physical sciences, university, water (Photos8.com) A research team at University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada report that Canadians and Americans get much different search results when they look up prescription drug information online. Their findings were published yesterday in the online issue of the Annals of Pharmacotherapy (paid subscription required). The researchers found residents of . . . → Read More: Canadians, Americans Get Different Drug Info in Web Searches One comment - (Comments are closed) Regulations biomedical, Canada, economics, NIH, pharmaceuticals, university (PRA/Wikimedia Commons) NextCAT Inc. in Detroit, Michigan says it has licensed biofuel catalyst technology developed at the National Biofuels Energy Lab at Wayne State University, also in Detroit. The company says the technology can help restart the biodiesel industry that has been mostly idle in the United States since 2008, when rising feedstock . . . → Read More: Michigan Start Up Company Licenses Biodiesel Technology 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Intellectual property biofuels, cleantech, economics, energy, engineering, entrepreneurs, licensing, university Cynthia Koenig (Univ. of Michigan) Cynthia Koenig, a business school graduate student at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, created a rolling water barrel and started an enterprise to distribute the device in developing countries. Koenig plans to pilot test the device, called the WaterWheel, in India. The WaterWheel is a 20-gallon rolling . . . → Read More: Grad Student Creates, Markets Rural Water Conveyance Device Comments are closed Joint ventures/collaborations, New products Asia, engineering, entrepreneurs, India, manufacturing, university, water (USPTO.gov) Synergy Pharmaceuticals Inc. in New York says today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded a patent to the company for its drug candidate SP-333 to treat various gastrointestinal disorders. U.S. Patent No. 7,879,802 was issued on 1 February, according to the company. The patent claims the composition of SP-333 and use . . . → Read More: U.S. Patent Issued for Gastrointestinal Therapy Comments are closed Intellectual property biomedical, cancer, life sciences, patent, pharmaceuticals, USPTO Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York have used nitric oxide particles reduced to nanoscale size to improve survival after life-threatening blood loss. Their results were reported in the 21 February online edition of the journal Resuscitation (paid subscription required). Nanoparticles — particles measured in nanometers, or billions of . . . → Read More: Nanoparticles Increase Survival Chance After Blood Loss Comments are closed New products biomedical, biotechnology, life sciences, nanotechnology, physical sciences Light-emitting phytoplankton (Scripps Institution of Oceanography/NASA) The new ISIS (In-Situ Iron Studies) Consortium announced today its plans to study the role of iron in regulating the ocean’s capacity to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide. The group of scientists from 12 institutions worldwide aims to better understand the impact of iron on marine ecosystems and . . . → Read More: Consortium to Study Ocean Potential for Carbon Storage One comment - (Comments are closed) Joint ventures/collaborations Asia, carbon capture, cleantech, Europe, life sciences, physical sciences, university, water (National Institute of Drug Abuse) A team led by a computational physicist and neuroscientist at Children’s Hospital Boston in Massachusetts have devised a technology that can lead to noninvasive tests for evaluating the risk of autism in infants. Their findings appear today in the journal BMC Medicine. The technology combines the standard electroencephalogram . . . → Read More: Neuroscience, Computational Physics Help Diagnose Autism 2 comments - (Comments are closed) New products biomedical, biotechnology, life sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, physics Hepatitis C virus (VA.gov) OraSure Technologies Inc. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania says that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its OraQuick HCV Rapid Antibody Test to detect hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies with a fingerstick whole blood sample. The test, says the company, provides results in 20 minutes. OraSure says the . . . → Read More: FDA Approves Hepatitis C Virus Test 2 comments - (Comments are closed) New products, Regulations biomedical, FDA, life sciences, medical device |
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