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Smart feeding tube prototype (University of Utah) A start up company founded by a University of Utah medical researcher is developing a feeding tube for patients that reduces the risks and casualties from misplacement. The company, Veritract Inc. in Salt Lake City, was started by John Fang, clinical director of the university’s gastroenterology . . . → Read More: University Start Up Commercializes Feeding Tube Research  Comments are closed  Finance, New products  biomedical, engineering, entrepreneurs, equity, FDA, grant, investment, life sciences, medical device, university, venture capital Engineering team members from left, Christopher Chiang, Elias Bitar, James Waring, Sean Monagle and Matthew Means (Will Kirk/JHU) A group of biomedical engineering graduate students at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland have developed a device that improves the collection of stem cells from a newborn’s umbilical cord and placenta. The students have . . . → Read More: Grad Students Develop Cord Blood Stem Cell Collection Device 7 comments - (Comments are closed) Intellectual property, New products biomedical, engineering, entrepreneurs, medical device, patent, stem cells, university (FDA.gov) A prescription pain killing drug developed by Pfizer Inc. in New York and Acura Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Palatine, Illinois has received marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Oxecta, an opioid analgesic tablet made from oxycodone hydrochloride (HCl), contains ingredients developed by Acura Pharmaceuticals to deter tampering that leads to . . . → Read More: Pain Killer with Built-in Abuse Deterrence Gets FDA Clearance Comments are closed Joint ventures/collaborations, Regulations biomedical, chemistry, FDA, licensing, life sciences, pharmaceuticals Matti Rantatalo (Luleå University of Technology) A researcher at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden has built a computer simulation model to help car designers locate potential sources of unwanted car noise. Matti Rantatalo (pictured right) developed the model as part of his doctoral studies at Luleå, in the university’s Center for Automotive . . . → Read More: Computer Model Tests for Car Noise During Design Stage One comment - (Comments are closed) Joint ventures/collaborations, New products computer science, economics, engineering, Europe, physical sciences, university (NIEHS/NIH) Posted today on Technorati … Innovations built on brainpower rather than race-to-the-bottom cheap labor are propelling American manufacturing and exports. Read more: Solar Wafer Process Developer Earns DoE Loan Guarantee * * * (Agricultural Research Service, USDA) Scientists at University of Adelaide in Australia are developing a technology based on computer imaging to better understand growth patterns of cereal grains and improve their yields under various conditions. The project involves a collaboration among computer scientists and plant physiologists at the university, with a German computer-imaging company. . . . → Read More: Imaging Technology Used to Improve Grain Yields Comments are closed Joint ventures/collaborations, New products agriculture, Australia, computer science, Europe, licensing, life sciences, physical sciences, software, university (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) The U.S. Department of Energy will offer a conditional commitment for a $150 million loan guarantee to 1366 Technologies in Lexington, Massachusetts. The company has developed a new manufacturing process for silicon wafers used in solar panels that promises to slash the costs and time needed to make. The . . . → Read More: Solar Wafer Process Developer Earns DoE Loan Guarantee 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Finance cleantech, debt, economics, energy, engineering, entrepreneurs, manufacturing, physical sciences, solar, venture capital (Research Council of Norway/Shutterstock) Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim have devised a platform and tools to connect home and office objects with built-in intelligence. The Infrastructure for Integrated Services (ISIS) offers a common framework for developing and distributing applications in what the researchers call the Internet . . . → Read More: Platform, Tools Developed to Network Smart Objects 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Joint ventures/collaborations, New products computer science, engineering, Europe, physical sciences, software, university (NIH) A clinical trial led by researchers at University of California at Davis found a gel that creates a watertight seal to close surgical wounds, sealed spinal wounds 100 percent of the time. The UC Davis team reported their findings in the online issue of the journal Spine (paid subscription required). The trial, . . . → Read More: Trial Shows Sealant Gel Closes Spinal Surgery Wounds One comment - (Comments are closed) New products, Regulations biomedical, clinical trials, life sciences, materials science, medical device, physical sciences, university (MeadWestvaco Corp.) A study of drug packaging indicates that calendar blister packaging with days or dates printed on the card under the individual dose helps patients keep to the prescribed schedule for those drugs. The results of the study appeared in the May 2011 issue of the journal Clinical Therapeutics (paid subscription required). . . . → Read More: Calendar Blister Packs Shown to Help Medication Adherence One comment - (Comments are closed) Regulations biomedical, pharmaceuticals, physical sciences, university |
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