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Illustration depicting a mu-gripper near the opening of an endoscopic catheter (Evin Gultepe, Gracias Lab, Johns Hopkins University) Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore created and tested microscopic devices powered by body heat that collect tissue samples from patients for biopsies. A team led by Johns Hopkins physician Florin Selaru and engineer . . . → Read More: Surgical Agents Developed for Biopsies in Confined Spaces  Comments are closed  New products  biomedical, cancer, engineering, life sciences, medical device, patent, preclinical, university Joe Gray (Oregon Health and Science University) Oregon Health and Science University in Portland and Intel Corporation are developing new computing technologies to increase the speed and precision of analyzing a patient’s genome, while reducing their time and cost. Financial aspects of the multi-year collaboration were not disclosed. The agreement calls for engineers . . . → Read More: Oregon Health, Intel Partner on Genome Analysis Computing Comments are closed Joint ventures/collaborations biomedical, cancer, computer science, engineering, genomics, life sciences, medical device, physical sciences, software, university Robert Hess with amblyopia patient trying the video game (McGill University) Vision researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, with colleagues from China and New Zealand, adapted the video game Tetris in a treatment for adults with amblyopia, a condition commonly known as lazy eye. Ophthalmology professor Robert Hess and colleagues reported their . . . → Read More: Video Game Adapted, Tested as Lazy Eye Treatment in Adults Comments are closed New products biomedical, Canada, engineering, life sciences, medical device, software, university Frances Balkwill (Queen Mary, University of London) Researchers in the U.K. and Switzerland are building a simulated environment to grow cancer cells in the lab for a better understanding of the way cancer cells develop and spread. The CANBUILD project draws faculty from Queen Mary, University of London — including the principal investogator . . . → Read More: European Researchers to Develop Lab Cancer Bio-Model Comments are closed Finance, New products biomedical, biotechnology, cancer, engineering, Europe, grant, life sciences, medical device, U.K., university David Wendell (University of Cincinnati) Engineers at University of Cincinnati in Ohio developed a nanoscale filter powered by sunlight that can clean biochemical compounds, such as antibiotics, from lakes and rivers. Environmental engineering professor David Wendell and Ph.D. candidate Vikram Kapoor published their findings online last week in the journal Nano Letters (paid . . . → Read More: Solar Nanoscale Protein Filter Cleans Antibiotics from Water Comments are closed New products, Regulations agriculture, chemistry, energy, engineering, life sciences, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, physical sciences, solar, university, water Reza Dana (Mass. Eye and Ear) Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear hospital, Brigham and Women’s hospital, and Harvard Medical School, found eye drops made of anakinra, a biologic agent to treat arthritis, could safely reduce symptoms associated with dry eye disease. The team led by Mass Eye and Ear ophthalmologist and immunologist Reza . . . → Read More: Early Trial Shows Arthritis Drug Can Treat Dry Eye Disease One comment - (Comments are closed) Regulations biomedical, clinical trials, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, university TakkTile sensor array (Leif Jentoft, Harvard University) Computer scientists at Harvard University developed and are taking to market circuits for robotic devices and potentially other electronic products that can sense the slightest application of pressure. The team led by Ph.D. candidate Leif Jentoft and postdoctoral fellow Yaroslav Tenzer in Harvard’s Biorobotics Laboratory started . . . → Read More: Low Cost Soft-Touch Robotic Sensor Circuits Commercialized 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Intellectual property, New products computer science, engineering, entrepreneurs, licensing, physical sciences, robotics, semiconductors, software, university (Investor.gov) Venture capital funding in the U.S. declined in the first quarter of 2013, continuing a trend begun in 2011, but companies in the health care sector, particularly those based on scientific discovery, played a prominent role in the quarter’s venture transactions. VentureSource, a service of financial publishers Dow Jones, released the first . . . → Read More: Venture Funding Declines in Q1, Health Companies Buck Trend Comments are closed Finance biomedical, computer science, engineering, entrepreneurs, equity, investment, life sciences, physical sciences, venture capital (TSA.gov) Update: 18 April 2013: Because of monstrous thunderstorms in the Midwest, our flights today were cancelled, so we’ll be back to posting this afternoon. 17 April: We’ll be traveling for the next two days, so there will be no Science Business posts until next Monday, 22 April. * * * . . . → Read More: On the road again [Update: Or maybe not] Elazer Edelman (A. Kotok) Elazer Edelman, a health sciences and technology professor at MIT called for a different funding formula during tight economic times that finances scientists rather than big scientific initiatives. Edelman made his remarks at a forum today on biomedical innovation in Washington, D.C. put on by American Association for the . . . → Read More: Forum: Focus Research Funding on Scientists Not Science Comments are closed Business conditions, Finance, Hiring/layoffs biomedical, engineering, entrepreneurs, grant, life sciences, medical device, NIH |
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