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Andres Lozano (University of Toronto) Researchers at the University Health Network in Toronto found deep brain stimulation to help some patients with severe anorexia increase their body mass index and reduce related obsessions and compulsions. Results of the small-scale clinical trial were published online in today’s issue of the journal The Lancet (paid . . . → Read More: Early Trial Shows Deep Brain Stimulation Effects on Anorexia  Comments are closed  New products, Regulations  biomedical, Canada, clinical trials, engineering, life sciences, medical device, physical sciences, university The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation in Miami awarded a $750,000 grant to the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) to help the association upgrade its business development services for academic scientists. AUTM announced the award on Tuesday at its annual meeting in San Antonio. AUTM represents technology transfer specialists at some 300 universities in the . . . → Read More: New Grant Funds Academic Tech Transfer Services Comments are closed Finance, Intellectual property biomedical, engineering, grant, licensing, medical device, university (Idaho National Lab) AeroVironment Inc., a developer of electric transportation systems in Monrovia, California, licensed technology from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington that keeps electric car chargers from over-taxing the electrical power grid. Financial aspects of the licensing deal between AeroVironment and Battelle Memorial Institute, which operates PNNL for Department . . . → Read More: E-Car Charger Company Licenses National Lab Power Technology Comments are closed Intellectual property cleantech, computer science, energy, engineering, licensing, physical sciences, software Jessika Trancik (Santa Fe Institute) Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico found two formulas for predicting technological change, including Moore’s Law, produce reasonably accurate forecasts. The team led by MIT engineering systems professor Jessika Trancik (pictured right), formerly a postdoctoral fellow at Santa Fe Institute, published . . . → Read More: Industry Technology Formulas Given Real-World Tests Comments are closed Business conditions computer science, economics, energy, engineering, manufacturing, mathematics, physical sciences, semiconductors, statistics, university Co-authors Georgios Mantokoudis, left, and Ali Tehrani demonstrate the video eye-movement device. (Johns Hopkins University) Medical researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, with colleagues at the universities of Illinois and Michigan, tested a device resembling a pair of swim goggles to tell if a patient experiencing severe, continuous dizziness is having a . . . → Read More: Goggle Device Helps Distinguish Between Vertigo and Stroke One comment - (Comments are closed) New products biomedical, clinical trials, computer science, engineering, heart disease, life sciences, medical device, software, university Metal-organic material crystals, viewed in a microscope (Mike Zawortko, University of South Florida) Researchers at University of South Florida in Tampa and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia (KAUST) developed a new type of metal-organic material with the ability to effectively capture carbon dioxide in the presence of water . . . → Read More: Material Engineered to More Efficiently Capture CO2 Comments are closed New products Asia, chemistry, energy, engineering, materials science, NSF, physical sciences, physics, university (Mikael Häggström/Wikimedia Commons) A researcher at National Jewish Health, a medical center in Denver, received a patent for methods using naturally occuring lipids to treat infections and inflammation in the lungs. U.S. patent number 8,367,643 was awarded last month to professor of medicine Dennis Voelker and assigned to National Jewish Health. Lipids are . . . → Read More: Patent Awarded for Lipid Treatments on Lung Infections Engineers and computer scientists at Aalto University in Finland are offering a free, online service to test the quality of mobile Internet connections. Netradar, available for download at netradar.org shows the quality of mobile Internet connections for individual devices, but also compared to other devices and locations. Netradar is a project of Aalto’s communications and . . . → Read More: University Provides Mobile Internet Quality Test Service Comments are closed New products computer science, engineering, Europe, physical sciences, software, university Jeffrey Pettis, of USDA’s Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, is a co-author of the study. (Agricultural Research Service, USDA) Researchers at North Carolina State University, University of Maryland, Pennsylvania State University, and U.S. Department of Agriculture found a mysterious disease and aberrant queen behavior highly associated with the recent widespread death of . . . → Read More: Disease, Queen Identified as Main Bee Colony Risk Factors One comment - (Comments are closed) New products agriculture, biomedical, economics, life sciences, university, USDA (Research.gov) A coalition of research institutes, analytics companies, and a patient network are building computational tools and models to better understand the causes of multiple sclerosis. Orion Bionetworks, based in Boston, is a consortium of the Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis, Institute for Neurosciences at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, GNS Healthcare, MetaCell, . . . → Read More: Consortium to Develop Disease Model for Multiple Sclerosis Comments are closed Joint ventures/collaborations biomedical, computer science, grant, life sciences, mathematics, medical device, physical sciences, software |
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