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Technology leader award given to Leica Microsystems

Wetzlar, Germany. The research and consulting company Frost & Sullivan has recognized Leica Microsystems’ newly acquired Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) company Bioptigen of Morrisville, North Carolina, USA, as a technology leader and pioneer of the North American ophthalmic imaging industry.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 21 Jan 2016

Duke researchers closer to developing rapid blood test for bacterial and viral infections

Researchers at Duke Health are fine-tuning a test that can determine whether a respiratory illness is caused by infection from a virus or bacteria so that antibiotics can be more precisely prescribed.

21 Jan 2016

High-traffic 'hub neurons' may play role in understanding brain health

Just as most of the world's air travel passes through a few major hubs, the majority of information in the brain flows through similarly well-traveled routes, Indiana University scientists have found.

21 Jan 2016

Eldermark obtains exclusive license to market eMenuCHOICE to senior living and skilled nursing settings

Most adults are accustomed to choosing what they want to eat at each meal. However, when they enter a senior housing or skilled nursing facility, the option to make food choices has traditionally gone away. On the operations side, rising food costs place stress on already tight budgets.

21 Jan 2016

CSU's BioMARC awarded DoD contract to help develop new vaccines to combat encephalitic viruses

Colorado State University's Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing and Academic Resource Center has been awarded a 10-month, $4.6 million contract funded by the Department of Defense to help develop and manufacture new vaccines to fight encephalitic viruses that cause inflammation of the brain.

21 Jan 2016

Virtual reality needs to overcome key challenges to become a success, says Vicon

Vicon, the motion capture technology specialist for the entertainment, engineering and life sciences industries, has revealed that virtual reality will need to overcome key challenges including the production of affordable consumer devices, in order for it to become a success.

21 Jan 2016

UC Berkeley researchers make major improvement in CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology

University of California, Berkeley, researchers have made a major improvement in CRISPR-Cas9 technology that achieves an unprecedented success rate of 60 percent when replacing a short stretch of DNA with another.

21 Jan 2016

Agienic issued three key U.S. patents for novel copper-based antimicrobial materials

Agienic Inc., an Arizona-based innovator in antimicrobial technology, announced today the issuance of three key U.S. patents on their novel copper-based antimicrobial materials.

21 Jan 2016

Biopsy robot that combines MRI and ultrasound may improve diagnosis of breast cancer, muscle diseases

Researchers at the University of Twente in The Netherlands are working on a biopsy robot that combines the best features of MRI and ultrasound, aiming to improve the diagnosis of breast cancer and muscle diseases.

20 Jan 2016

MedNet Solutions attains record-setting corporate growth in 2015

MedNet Solutions, an innovative SaaS-based eClinical technology company that supports the entire spectrum of clinical research, is pleased to announce the attainment of record-setting corporate growth in 2015.

20 Jan 2016

Upsher-Smith, Saniona sign drug discovery and development agreement

Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary Proximagen Ltd., and Saniona, a leading biotech company in the field of ion channels, today announce that they have entered into a drug discovery and development collaboration.

20 Jan 2016

Automated OpenSPR-XT will accelerate discoveries in protein science

Nicoya Lifesciences, a leader in label-free molecular analysis, announced today its newest product, OpenSPR-XT - a fully automated molecular analysis instrument based on the highly successful OpenSPR instrument.

From Nicoya Lifesciences 20 Jan 2016

Pioneer calls on electrophysiologists to reexamine substrate mapping for deadly heart arrhythmia

A pioneer in developing life-saving therapies for a deadly heart arrhythmia has called on electrophysiologists to reexamine a widely used technique to guide the treatment of the faulty electrical impulses responsible for these abnormal heartbeats.

20 Jan 2016

New Georgia Tech research center launched to manufacture living cells for cell-based therapies

A $15.7 million grant from the Atlanta-based Marcus Foundation has helped launch a new Georgia Institute of Technology research center that will develop processes and techniques for ensuring the consistent, low-cost, large-scale manufacture of high-quality living cells used in cell-based therapies.

20 Jan 2016

New Penn study examines differences in costs of end-of-life care among developed countries

Despite widespread perception, the United States does not provide the worst end-of-life care in the world. In the first international comparison of end-of-life care practices, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues from seven countries found that the United States actually has the lowest proportion of deaths in the hospital and the lowest number of days in the hospital in the last six months of life among the those countries, according to a new study published today in JAMA.

20 Jan 2016

Artificial pancreas moves closer to becoming a reality

As the accuracy, reliability, adoption, and successful use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) continue to increase, the ultimate goal of combining CGM with an insulin pump and sophisticated algorithms for automating the control and suspension of insulin infusion--known as the "artificial pancreas"--moves closer to becoming a reality.

20 Jan 2016

Four USF professors selected as AIMBE College of Fellows

Four University of South Florida professors have been elected to the 2016 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE): Cesario Borlongan and Shyam Mohapatra from the USF Morsani College of Medicine, USF Health; and Robert Frisina, Jr., and Sudeep Sarkar from the USF College of Engineering.

20 Jan 2016

Optical technologies could lead to novel treatments for neurological diseases

Optical technologies previously used to look at the stars in the sky will be miniaturized to look inside the brain, and could lead to new treatments for neurological diseases.

20 Jan 2016

Text message reminders may help reduce people’s blood pressure

The study, of over 1300 adults with high blood pressure in the Cape Town area, compared text message reminders and interactive text messaging to a control group receiving standard care. The results appear online in the American Heart Association journal Circulation.

19 Jan 2016

Needle-free administration of anesthetic in the mouth could save costs, improve patient compliance

If you're scared of the dentist's needles you're not alone - but new research means you might not have to put off that appointment again. A study published in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces reveals how the dentist could give you anesthetic using a tiny electric current instead of a needle.

19 Jan 2016

Technology News and Research

Technology leader award given to Leica Microsystems

Duke researchers closer to developing rapid blood test for bacterial and viral infections

High-traffic 'hub neurons' may play role in understanding brain health

Eldermark obtains exclusive license to market eMenuCHOICE to senior living and skilled nursing settings

CSU's BioMARC awarded DoD contract to help develop new vaccines to combat encephalitic viruses

Virtual reality needs to overcome key challenges to become a success, says Vicon

UC Berkeley researchers make major improvement in CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology

Agienic issued three key U.S. patents for novel copper-based antimicrobial materials

Biopsy robot that combines MRI and ultrasound may improve diagnosis of breast cancer, muscle diseases

MedNet Solutions attains record-setting corporate growth in 2015

Upsher-Smith, Saniona sign drug discovery and development agreement

Automated OpenSPR-XT will accelerate discoveries in protein science

Pioneer calls on electrophysiologists to reexamine substrate mapping for deadly heart arrhythmia

New Georgia Tech research center launched to manufacture living cells for cell-based therapies

New Penn study examines differences in costs of end-of-life care among developed countries

Artificial pancreas moves closer to becoming a reality

Four USF professors selected as AIMBE College of Fellows

Optical technologies could lead to novel treatments for neurological diseases

Text message reminders may help reduce people’s blood pressure

Needle-free administration of anesthetic in the mouth could save costs, improve patient compliance

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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