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(National Institutes of Health) A new challenge on InnoCentive seeks a method for surgically connecting fluid-bearing tissues without using sutures. The competition, sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic, has a maximum prize of $30,000 and a final submission deadline of 12 August 2012. InnoCentive in Waltham, Massachusetts conducts open-innovation, crowd-sourcing competitions for corporate and . . . → Read More: Challenge Seeks Method to Connect Tissues Without Sutures The software can visualize vibrations of a guitar string (A. Kotok) Computer scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have written software that amplifies variations in successive frames of video that are imperceptible to the naked eye. The team of graduate students, alumni, and faculty from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will . . . → Read More: Software Developed that Amplifies Video Frame Variations  Comments are closed  New products  computer science, engineering, medical device, physical sciences, software, university Thomas Webster (Brown Univ.) Engineers at Brown University in Rhode Island discovered the ability of selenium nanoparticles to control the growth of staph bacteria on a type of plastic often used in medical implants. Doctoral student Qi Wang and biomedical engineering professor Thomas Webster describe their research online this week in the Journal . . . → Read More: Selenium Found to Control Staph Bacteria on Implant Material 2 comments - (Comments are closed) New products biomedical, engineering, licensing, life sciences, medical device, nanotechnology, university (NIH) Pfizer Inc. in New York says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its drug pregabalin, marketed as Lyrica, to manage neuropathic pain associated with spinal cord injury. The drug was given a priority review by FDA. Spinal cord injuries can happen to young, healthy people as a result of . . . → Read More: FDA Approves Drug to Manage Spinal Cord Injury Pain L-R: Rice Professors Bruce Weisman and Satish Nagarajaiah, research scientist Sergei Bachilo and graduate student Venkata Srivishnu Vemuru; and Paul Withey, an associate professor of physics at University of Houston. (Tommy LaVergne/Rice University) Engineers, chemists, and physicists at Rice University and University of Houston in Texas have developed a paint with carbon nanotubes . . . → Read More: Nanotube Paint Developed to Reveal Structural Strains One comment - (Comments are closed) New products chemistry, engineering, materials science, nanotechnology, physical sciences, physics, university Cross-section of kidney (National Library of Medicine) Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina have devised a framework for building new kidneys for eventual transplant, and tested the scaffold in pigs. The results are described online in the journal Annals of Surgery (paid subscription required). The goal of the proof-of-concept . . . → Read More: Bioengineered Kidney Scaffold Developed and Implanted 2 comments - (Comments are closed) New products biomedical, engineering, life sciences, medical device, university Izabela Kaminska holding a model of graphene molecules (Institute of Physical Chemistry) Researchers from Poland, France, and India have developed a process for producing the high-performance material graphene using common laboratory equipment. The team led by the Institute of Physical Chemistry (translation provided by EurekAlert) of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, . . . → Read More: Method Devised for Inexpensive Graphene Production Comments are closed New products Asia, chemistry, Europe, India, materials science, nanotechnology, physical sciences, physics Lab at BTEC (North Carolina State University) North Carolina State University in Durham and University of Strasbourg in France, along with the Alsace BioValley cluster in Europe, are forming Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC) International, to provide educational and regulatory advisory services in the U.S. and Europe. BTEC International will initially combine . . . → Read More: NC State, Strasbourg Institutes to Advance Biomanufacturing Comments are closed Hiring/layoffs, Joint ventures/collaborations, Regulations biomedical, biotechnology, engineering, Europe, FDA, life sciences, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, university The global pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will license a nanotechnology-based product development platform created by Liquidia Technologies in North Carolina. The precise financial scale of the deal was not disclosed, but the companies say total earnings by Liquidia could reach as high as several hundred million dollars. Liquidia has built a development technology for pharmaceuticals . . . → Read More: GSK Licenses Nanotech Product Development Platform 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Intellectual property biomedical, biotechnology, chemistry, engineering, licensing, life sciences, manufacturing, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals Women at a health clinic in Haiti (State.gov) Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden used data from a mobile phone company in Haiti to devise a system to predict population displacements when disaster strikes. Their findings appear online in in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (paid subscription required), . . . → Read More: Mobile Data Help Predict Displaced Populations in Haiti One comment - (Comments are closed) Joint ventures/collaborations, New products computer science, engineering, Europe, mathematics, physical sciences, software, university |
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