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China Pharma's revenue decreases 24% to $24.9 million in fiscal year 2014

China Pharma Holdings, Inc., an NYSE MKT listed corporation with its fully-integrated specialty pharmaceuticals subsidiary based in China, today announced financial results for the year ended December 31, 2014.

31 Mar 2015

Biomedical researchers successfully convert microbubble technology into nanoparticles

Biomedical researchers led by Dr. Gang Zheng at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have successfully converted microbubble technology already used in diagnostic imaging into nanoparticles that stay trapped in tumours to potentially deliver targeted, therapeutic payloads.

31 Mar 2015

Genetic markers may predict tumor samples that respond to treatment

Patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia have limited treatment options, and those that exist are effective only in fewer than half of patients. Now, a new study identifies a panel of genetic markers that predicted which tumor samples would likely respond to treatment.

31 Mar 2015

Ultrasound safer than other imaging modalities for imaging female pelvis, say OB/GYN experts

Ultrasound technology has evolved dramatically in recent years. A group of noted obstetricians and gynecologists maintain that ultrasound is more cost-effective and safer than other imaging modalities for imaging the female pelvis and should be the first imaging modality used for patients with pelvic symptoms.

31 Mar 2015

Study reveals link between dietary magnesium intake and diabetes-related health outcomes

A recent analysis published in the Journal of Human Nutrition & Food Science reveals a beneficial relationship between dietary magnesium intake and diabetes-related outcomes including decreased risk for metabolic syndrome, obesity or overweight, elevated blood pressure, and reduced HDL (good) cholesterol.

31 Mar 2015

Allen Institute for Brain Science leads international effort to advance analysis of single neurons

The Allen Institute for Brain Science is spearheading a landmark international effort to define and advance the state-of-the-art digital reconstruction and analysis of single neurons. The project launching today, called BigNeuron, aims to create reliable high-throughput and quantitative 3D reconstructions of the thousands of branches that make up individual neurons: a crucial step to ultimately understanding how the brain encodes information.

31 Mar 2015

New Johns Hopkins mobile app educates care providers on improving sleep, overall health of patients

Experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Sleep hope to help patients get a better night’s sleep by providing health care staff members with a basic educational tool on their smartphones.

31 Mar 2015

Six winners share £2 million to develop cutting-edge technology to prevent kidney disease

SIX winners, announced today, will receive a share of over £2 million as part of a Small Business Research Initiative competition aimed at developing cutting-edge technology solutions to help kidney patients.

31 Mar 2015

New Hospedia and thebigword partnership may benefit patients, clinicians across the UK

Hospedia, the leading provider of point of care systems for healthcare, has partnered with thebigword – a global, technology driven language solutions provider - to give patients and clinicians immediate access to interpreters directly at their bedside in 160 hospitals across the UK.

31 Mar 2015

ElectroCore selected as finalist in ‘Technology’ category at FT ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business awards

At the annual FT ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business awards held in London last week electroCore was one of six finalists in the ‘Technology’ category, in a competition that included over 250 companies, which Open Garden won for its FireChat digital app.

31 Mar 2015

New peer-to-peer networking tool for people suffering from anxiety, depression

Researchers at MIT and Northwestern University have developed a new peer-to-peer networking tool that enables sufferers of anxiety and depression to build online support communities and practice therapeutic techniques.

30 Mar 2015

Merck Serono, Intrexon partner to develop and commercialize CAR-T cancer therapies

Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical business of Merck, and Intrexon Corporation, today announced an exclusive strategic collaboration and license agreement to develop and commercialize Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) cancer therapies.

30 Mar 2015

VUEMED to deploy Impinj xArray technology for tracking and managing medical devices

VUEMED announced today that it will be deploying the Impinj xArray technology as part of its VueTrack-RF solution for tracking and managing medical devices and supplies throughout the healthcare supply chain.

30 Mar 2015

Thermo Fisher Scientific to resell Prosolia’s PaperSpray® technology as factory option to its mass spectrometers

Labs performing clinical research and forensic toxicology of dried sample spots can now purchase Thermo Scientific mass spectrometry (MS) systems equipped from the factory with PaperSpray technology, designed to virtually eliminate sample preparation for screening and quantitation of drugs in biological fluid samples.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 30 Mar 2015

Scientists successfully produce highly effective medication for malaria from plant waste material

Professor Peter H. Seeberger, Professor Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern and their team are successful in producing a low-cost but highly effective medication for malaria from plant waste material. For their findings, they received the $25,000 award “Humanity in Science” during Pittcon 2015 in New Orleans.

From KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH 30 Mar 2015

CRT, BioInvent, and University of Southampton partner to develop new immunotherapy treatments for cancer

Cancer Research Technology, the commercialization and development arm of Cancer Research UK and BioInvent International today announce the start of a two-year research collaboration with leading antibody researchers at the University of Southampton.

30 Mar 2015

Columbia licenses exclusive worldwide rights to novel intra-vaginal ring technology

Columbia Laboratories, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapeutics for women's health, has licensed exclusive worldwide rights to a novel intra-vaginal ring technology for the delivery of one or more pharmaceuticals at different dosages and release rates in a single segmented ring.

30 Mar 2015

One round of adenosine triphosphate turnover sufficient for SNARE complex disassembly

In 2013, James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of molecular machineries for vesicle trafficking, a major transport system in cells for maintaining cellular processes. Vesicle traffic acts as a kind of "home-delivery service" in cells.

30 Mar 2015

$Two surgical methods safe, effective for healing distal femur fractures$

Two surgical methods safe, effective for healing distal femur fractures

A team of orthopedic surgeons from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that modern technology for healing distal femur fractures is as safe and effective as its more established alternative, without a potential shortfall of the older approach.

30 Mar 2015

Biosafe acquires ACTS do Brasil's biosafe-related business

After a successful partnership of 10 years with its local distributor ACTS do Brasil Ltda., effective immediately Biosafe has acquired all ACTS' Biosafe-related business, which has been spun off into a separate operating entity, Biosafe Brasil Distribuidora Ltda. Terms have not been disclosed.

30 Mar 2015

Technology News and Research

China Pharma's revenue decreases 24% to $24.9 million in fiscal year 2014

Biomedical researchers successfully convert microbubble technology into nanoparticles

Genetic markers may predict tumor samples that respond to treatment

Ultrasound safer than other imaging modalities for imaging female pelvis, say OB/GYN experts

Study reveals link between dietary magnesium intake and diabetes-related health outcomes

Allen Institute for Brain Science leads international effort to advance analysis of single neurons

New Johns Hopkins mobile app educates care providers on improving sleep, overall health of patients

Six winners share £2 million to develop cutting-edge technology to prevent kidney disease

New Hospedia and thebigword partnership may benefit patients, clinicians across the UK

ElectroCore selected as finalist in ‘Technology’ category at FT ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business awards

New peer-to-peer networking tool for people suffering from anxiety, depression

Merck Serono, Intrexon partner to develop and commercialize CAR-T cancer therapies

VUEMED to deploy Impinj xArray technology for tracking and managing medical devices

Thermo Fisher Scientific to resell Prosolia’s PaperSpray® technology as factory option to its mass spectrometers

Scientists successfully produce highly effective medication for malaria from plant waste material

CRT, BioInvent, and University of Southampton partner to develop new immunotherapy treatments for cancer

Columbia licenses exclusive worldwide rights to novel intra-vaginal ring technology

One round of adenosine triphosphate turnover sufficient for SNARE complex disassembly

Two surgical methods safe, effective for healing distal femur fractures

Biosafe acquires ACTS do Brasil's biosafe-related business

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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