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Exactech and Bodycad sign exclusive distribution agreement

Exactech announced today the signing of an exclusive distribution agreement with orthopedic manufacturer Bodycad for its Reflex Uni™ knee in the U.S.

25 Nov 2020

MyMaskFit receives Innovate UK funding to produce custom-fitted, medical grade facemasks

A company working with experts from the University of Birmingham and King's College London has been awarded funding by Innovate UK to produce custom-fitted, reusable, medical grade facemasks that will fit all people regardless of age, sex or ethnicity.

23 Nov 2020

Special activity trackers could be used to detect early sign of heart problems

Special activity trackers can be used to fairly accurately determine the respiratory rate of people while they sleep.

23 Nov 2020

Understanding biomolecular frustration could help design better drugs

Knowing precisely where proteins are frustrated could go a long way toward making better drugs.

23 Nov 2020

Greensboro North Carolina Company’s Dedication to Ensuring Laboratories have COVID-19 Supplies Now Offers One-Stop-Shop for PCR Instruments, Extraction Systems and Kits, POC COVID-19 Test Kits, and Supplies.

GREENSBORO, NC — (November 20, 2020) – Greensboro-based, Carolina Liquid Chemistries Corp. (CLC) has been tirelessly working since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak to provide high-quality testing kits and instruments to healthcare providers and laboratories as quickly as possible.

From Carolina Liquid Chemistries Corp. 23 Nov 2020

Advantech Launches Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Solution-Ready Package (SRP) for Healthcare Applications

Advantech, a leading provider of industrial computing platform solutions, is pleased to announce its real-time location system (RTLS) solution-ready package (SRP) designed for real-time locating and monitoring of medical equipment, staff, and patients.

23 Nov 2020

Researchers receive coveted award for outstanding research on COVID-19

The 2020 ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research was presented to a 12-member team for their project "AI-Driven Multiscale Simulations Illuminate Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Dynamics."

20 Nov 2020

People proving to be weakest link for apps tracking COVID exposure

The app builders had planned for pranksters, ensuring that only people with verified COVID-19 cases could trigger an alert. They'd planned for heavy criticism about privacy, in many cases making the features as bare-bones as possible.

19 Nov 2020

How the influenza virus takes control of a city, and implications for SARS-CoV-2

SARS-CoV-2 has spread around the world, passed across the borders of nations by travelers and cargo.

19 Nov 2020

Sanger Institute and COG-UK get £12.2M funding to build genomic surveillance system for COVID-19

The Department for Health and Social Care Testing Innovation Fund has backed the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium in expanding whole genome sequencing of positive SARS-CoV-2 virus samples to map how COVID-19 spreads and evolves.

16 Nov 2020

Dotmatics collaborates with LabVoice to enable voice-assisted laboratory workflows

Dotmatics today announced a partnership with LabVoice to provide scientists with the ability to record and track data within an electronic laboratory notebook.

From Dotmatics 12 Nov 2020

New £2 million project to improve lives of dementia carers in the UK

Researchers at the University of East Anglia and Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust are launching a new project to improve the lives of dementia carers in the UK.

12 Nov 2020

TMDU and Fujitsu complete cancer gene network analysis in less than a day

Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited have recently completed, in less than a day, estimation of the network that represents the influence relationship between genes and prediction of their relationship with infiltration and metastasis based on genes highly likely to be involved in cancer development.

12 Nov 2020

Ignis Health licenses Telehealth Service Implementation Model to set up new program

The Medical University of South Carolina and Ignis Health share a common goal - improving telehealth. Earlier this month, Ignis licensed the Telehealth Service Implementation Model (TSIM), a roadmap for setting up a telehealth program developed by Shawn Valenta, former administrator for the MUSC Health Center for Telehealth, and other telehealth experts at MUSC.

11 Nov 2020

Single clinical laboratory test can rapidly detect serious infections

UC San Francisco scientists have developed a single clinical laboratory test capable of zeroing in on the microbial miscreant afflicting patients hospitalized with serious infections in as little as six hour.

11 Nov 2020

Study may help develop recovery and prevention paths for gambling addiction

For the first time, new research conducted by SISSA and by the University of Roma Tre identifies narrative markers of gambling addiction and paves the way to innovative approaches for therapy and prevention.

11 Nov 2020

Promising new antivirals target arboviruses and SARS-CoV-2: Nodosome inhibitors

A new study describes two promising small molecules that inhibit a host cell factor, called nucleotide binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 2 (NOD2), that inhibits the replication and spread of many arboviruses. This could lead to the development of broad-spectrum antivirals. The study's findings have been published on the preprint server bioRxiv*.

10 Nov 2020

Researchers uncover new 'hidden' gene in SARS-CoV-2

Researchers have discovered a new "hidden" gene in SARS-CoV-2--the virus that causes COVID-19--that may have contributed to its unique biology and pandemic potential.

10 Nov 2020

Study finds diabetes epidemic among Xavante indigenous community in Central Brazil

The Xavante, one of the indigenous communities most vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil, are suffering from an epidemic of diabetes, a "silent" disease considered a risk factor for severe COVID-19.

10 Nov 2020

Semi-automated approach accelerates artificial organoid growth and selection

The method currently used to produce stem cell-derived tissues has a very limited throughput. By semi-automating tissue differentiation, researchers from MIPT and Harvard have made the process nearly four times faster, without compromising on quality.

10 Nov 2020

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Exactech and Bodycad sign exclusive distribution agreement

MyMaskFit receives Innovate UK funding to produce custom-fitted, medical grade facemasks

Special activity trackers could be used to detect early sign of heart problems

Understanding biomolecular frustration could help design better drugs

Greensboro North Carolina Company’s Dedication to Ensuring Laboratories have COVID-19 Supplies Now Offers One-Stop-Shop for PCR Instruments, Extraction Systems and Kits, POC COVID-19 Test Kits, and Supplies.

Advantech Launches Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Solution-Ready Package (SRP) for Healthcare Applications

Researchers receive coveted award for outstanding research on COVID-19

People proving to be weakest link for apps tracking COVID exposure

How the influenza virus takes control of a city, and implications for SARS-CoV-2

Sanger Institute and COG-UK get £12.2M funding to build genomic surveillance system for COVID-19

Dotmatics collaborates with LabVoice to enable voice-assisted laboratory workflows

New £2 million project to improve lives of dementia carers in the UK

TMDU and Fujitsu complete cancer gene network analysis in less than a day

Ignis Health licenses Telehealth Service Implementation Model to set up new program

Single clinical laboratory test can rapidly detect serious infections

Study may help develop recovery and prevention paths for gambling addiction

Promising new antivirals target arboviruses and SARS-CoV-2: Nodosome inhibitors

Researchers uncover new 'hidden' gene in SARS-CoV-2

Study finds diabetes epidemic among Xavante indigenous community in Central Brazil

Semi-automated approach accelerates artificial organoid growth and selection

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