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Study to Develop Simple, Standard TBI Test Process

(Flickr)

9 March 2016. An industry, academic, and medical center research team is beginning a study to better diagnose traumatic brain injury with multiple testing methods. The project is an undertaking of medical device maker Abbott, Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, and University of Minnesota medical school, also in Minneapolis.

The initiative . . . → Read More: Study to Develop Simple, Standard TBI Test Process

Hydrogel Injection Tested to Treat Advanced Artery Disease

Muscle cell structure matrix in freeze-dried form, before mixing with hydrogel (Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego)

9 March 2016. A biomedical engineering team developed an injected hydrogel for advanced cases of peripheral artery disease that in lab animals improved blood flow and muscles in affected limbs. Researchers from University of California in . . . → Read More: Hydrogel Injection Tested to Treat Advanced Artery Disease

Genetics Company Makes Available Cancer Sequencing Database

DNA molecule display (Christian Guthier, Flickr)

8 March 2016. A genetic testing company is making freely available a database of genomic sequencing data from patients with breast and ovarian cancer. The database, from 10,000 human genomes but with personal identity removed, is offered by Ambry Genetics in Aliso Viejo, California.

Ambry Genetics is . . . → Read More: Genetics Company Makes Available Cancer Sequencing Database

Platform Devised for 3-D Engineered Heart, Liver Tissue

Milica Radisic (NSERC, University of Toronto)

8 March 2016. An engineering team at University of Toronto designed and tested in lab animals a technology for growing synthetic heart and liver tissue for drug testing and eventual clinical use. Researchers led by chemical engineering professor Milica Radisic published their findings yesterday (7 March) in . . . → Read More: Platform Devised for 3-D Engineered Heart, Liver Tissue

Allergy Drug Shown to Allow Eating Small Peanut Amounts

(National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA)

7 March 2016. A new drug was shown in a clinical trial to allow most children and teens with food allergies to eat peanuts in small quantities. The results of the intermediate-stage trial were reported yesterday at the annual meeting of American Academy of Allergy, Asthma . . . → Read More: Allergy Drug Shown to Allow Eating Small Peanut Amounts