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LifeBond announces closure of $27M Series D preferred equity investment

LifeBond, a leader in the development of bio-surgical medical devices for tissue repair, announced today it has closed a $27M Series D preferred equity investment. Participants in the round include Pitango Venture Capital, Adams Street Partners, Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd., and all existing investors.

5 Aug 2015

New research could help understand how ongoing behavior influences visual perception

Our brains are constantly barraged with sensory information, but have an amazing ability to filter out just what they need to understand what's going on around us. For instance, if you stand perfectly still in a room, and that room rotates around you, it's terrifying.

5 Aug 2015

New partnership aims to provide high-tech healthcare learning opportunities for pediatric patients

A new partnership between The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries and Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth will mean new high-tech healthcare learning opportunities for pediatric patients.

5 Aug 2015

Molecular packaging enhances cancer drug’s effectiveness at destroying tumors

Researchers have packaged a widely used cancer drug into nanoparticles, more than doubling its effectiveness at destroying tumors.

5 Aug 2015

Amedica’s four scientific presentations to highlight benefits of silicon nitride platform at ISTA

Amedica Corporation, an innovative biomaterial company which develops and manufactures silicon nitride as a platform for biomedical applications, is pleased to announce all four submissions to the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty were accepted for presentation during the 28th annual congress occurring September 30 – October 3, 2015 in Vienna, Austria.

5 Aug 2015

Cryptogenic stroke frequent and recurrent

Cryptogenic ischaemic strokes and transient ischaemic attacks frequently recur, despite having no identifiable cause, show findings from the Oxford Vascular Study.

4 Aug 2015

Livongo Health named AADE-accredited diabetes education program

Livongo Health announced it was named an accredited diabetes education program by the American Association of Diabetes Educators, making it the first company of its kind to achieve this prestigious accreditation status.

4 Aug 2015

Netsync Network Solutions achieves Telehealth Authorized Technology Provider status from Cisco

Netsync Network Solutions announced today that it has achieved Telehealth Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco. This designation recognizes Netsync Network Solutions as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support Cisco Telehealth solutions.

4 Aug 2015

Research: Critical aspects of human genome's regulatory program encoded by genomic sequence elements

Since the classical studies of Jacob and Monod in the early 1960s, it has been evident that genome sequences contain not only blueprints for genes and the proteins that they encode, but also the instructions for a coordinated regulatory program that governs when, where and to what extent these genes and proteins are expressed.

4 Aug 2015

SGI-DNA recognized by Frost & Sullivan for BioXp 3200 System

SGI-DNA, a Synthetic Genomics, Inc. company, was recently recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its groundbreaking innovation in genomic technologies for the BioXp 3200 System, an instrument with the capacity to simultaneously build 32 unique, double-stranded DNA fragments to study gene function, pathways, and whole genomes.

4 Aug 2015

G7 Therapeutics, MorphoSys collaborate on novel antibody therapeutics targeting GPCRs and ion channels

MorphoSys AG and G7 Therapeutics AG announced today that they have signed an agreement to collaborate on novel antibody therapeutics targeting G protein-coupled receptors and potentially other disease-related transmembrane proteins such as ion channels.

4 Aug 2015

Imperial Innovations announces launch of pre-clinical spinout company, Orthonika

Imperial Innovations is pleased to announce the launch of Orthonika, a spinout company from Imperial College London that is developing a novel knee meniscus replacement, MenisciKnit.

4 Aug 2015

Oasmia announces topline results from head-to-head comparison study of Paclical and Abraxane

Oasmia Pharmaceutical AB, developer of a new generation of drugs within human and veterinary oncology, announced today the topline findings from a head-to-head comparison study of its lead human cancer product candidate Paclical and Celgene's Abraxane, which show similar pharmacokinetic (PK) profiles of the two products. The study was conducted in women with metastatic breast cancer.

4 Aug 2015

Syneron Medical's second quarter 2015 revenue up 14% to $73.5 million

Syneron Medical Ltd., a leading global aesthetic device company, today announced financial results for the three month period ended June 30, 2015.

4 Aug 2015

Stress Resilience Training System app for military personnel now available through Apple App Store

The Stress Resilience Training System (SRTS), an app designed to provide resilience training for military personnel by Perceptronics Solutions, Inc., is now available through the Apple App Store for anyone with an iPad.

4 Aug 2015

Northwestern gets $17.5 million NIH grant to invent, develop implantable drug delivery system for HIV prevention

Northwestern Medicine scientists have received a five-year, $17.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for an interdisciplinary project that aims to invent, develop and test an implantable drug delivery system to protect high-risk individuals from HIV infection for up to a year at a time.

4 Aug 2015

Penn Medicine devises new approach to develop vaccines against lethal diseases

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have devised an entirely new approach to vaccines - creating immunity without vaccination.

4 Aug 2015

BrightFocus announces recipients of 2015 research program grants

BrightFocus Foundation, which funds research worldwide on Alzheimer's disease, glaucoma, and macular degeneration, today announced that its 2015 research program grants have been awarded to 58 scientists in 20 states and 7 foreign countries. Part of an $11 million research investment, the grants reflect the largest annual research funding in the foundation's history.

4 Aug 2015

NYSCF scientists design new robotic platform to automate generation of patient-specific stem cells

Scientists at The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute successfully designed a revolutionary, high-throughput, robotic platform that automates and standardizes the process of transforming patient samples into stem cells.

4 Aug 2015

New Tel Aviv University study sheds light on precise trigger of deadly melanoma

Skin cancer is the most common of all cancers, and melanoma, which accounts for 2% of skin cancer cases, is responsible for nearly all skin cancer deaths. Melanoma rates in the US have been rising rapidly over the last 30 years, and although scientists have managed to identify key risk factors, melanoma's modus operandi has eluded the world of medical research.

4 Aug 2015

Technology News and Research

LifeBond announces closure of $27M Series D preferred equity investment

New research could help understand how ongoing behavior influences visual perception

New partnership aims to provide high-tech healthcare learning opportunities for pediatric patients

Molecular packaging enhances cancer drug’s effectiveness at destroying tumors

Amedica’s four scientific presentations to highlight benefits of silicon nitride platform at ISTA

Cryptogenic stroke frequent and recurrent

Livongo Health named AADE-accredited diabetes education program

Netsync Network Solutions achieves Telehealth Authorized Technology Provider status from Cisco

Research: Critical aspects of human genome's regulatory program encoded by genomic sequence elements

SGI-DNA recognized by Frost & Sullivan for BioXp 3200 System

G7 Therapeutics, MorphoSys collaborate on novel antibody therapeutics targeting GPCRs and ion channels

Imperial Innovations announces launch of pre-clinical spinout company, Orthonika

Oasmia announces topline results from head-to-head comparison study of Paclical and Abraxane

Syneron Medical's second quarter 2015 revenue up 14% to $73.5 million

Stress Resilience Training System app for military personnel now available through Apple App Store

Northwestern gets $17.5 million NIH grant to invent, develop implantable drug delivery system for HIV prevention

Penn Medicine devises new approach to develop vaccines against lethal diseases

BrightFocus announces recipients of 2015 research program grants

NYSCF scientists design new robotic platform to automate generation of patient-specific stem cells

New Tel Aviv University study sheds light on precise trigger of deadly melanoma

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