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First Edition: November 4, 2013

Today's headlines include the latest on the efforts to address the problems with healthcare.gov, as well as the continuing controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's promise that Americans could keep their health coverage if they liked it juxtaposed with the news of recent policy cancellations.

4 Nov 2013

Probiotics may help keep bad germs at bay

Microbes are everywhere - thousands of species are in your mouth, and thousands are in a glass of tap water. The ones in your mouth are mostly harmless - as long as you brush and floss so they don't form a biofilm that allows gum disease a path into the blood stream.

4 Nov 2013

NeuroSky forms strategic partnership with SoftBank Mobile to improve health and wellness

NeuroSky, a global leader in body and mind monitoring and analysis technologies, today announced that is has secured a significant investment from SoftBank Corp. to form a strategic partnership with SoftBank Mobile Corp.

4 Nov 2013

Acoustic diode may improve future ultrasound images

Most people know about ultrasound through its role in prenatal imaging: those grainy, grey outlines of junior constructed from reflected sound waves. A new technology called an "acoustic diode," envisioned by researchers in China's Nanjing University, may dramatically improve future ultrasound images by changing the way sound waves are transmitted.

4 Nov 2013

Three Johns Hopkins Medicine hospitals named 2012 Top Performers on Key Quality Measures

The Joint Commission is naming three Johns Hopkins Medicine hospitals as 2012 Top Performers on Key Quality Measures, a designation reserved for accredited hospitals that consistently and at a very high level follow best practices for treating people who require surgery or suffer heart attacks, heart failure, stroke, pneumonia or other serious conditions.

4 Nov 2013

Details emerge about key fixers in 'tech surge' to address website issues

News outlets report that the administration's so-called "tech surge" has been somewhat mysterious, but it's becoming clear that the administration has enlisted engineers from a number of major companies.

4 Nov 2013

Scientists find surprising degree of variation among genomes of individual neurons

It was once thought that each cell in a person's body possesses the same DNA code and that the particular way the genome is read imparts cell function and defines the individual. For many cell types in our bodies, however, that is an oversimplification.

4 Nov 2013

Discovery may lead to curing of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease via photo therapy

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with researchers at the Polish Wroclaw University of Technology, have made a discovery that may lead to the curing of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (the so called mad cow disease) through photo therapy.

3 Nov 2013

Immunocore’s Phase IIa clinical trial for IMCgp100 in melanoma initiates in the UK and USA

Immunocore Limited, the Oxford-based biotechnology company developing novel biological drugs to treat cancer and viral disease, announced that its most advanced ImmTAC drug, IMCgp100 for the treatment of late stage melanoma, has reached Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) and the dose escalation part of this Phase I clinical study has been completed. The company has now initiated a Phase IIa clinical trial in the UK and USA.

1 Nov 2013

Oncology drug development services: an interview with Dr. Jean-Pierre Wery, President of Crown Bioscience, Inc.

Crown serves pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies. We have two areas of focus: oncology and metabolic diseases. In the oncology space we focus on pre-clinical services. Essentially, we have all the tools to help our customers move from target discovery, target validation, to a clinical candidate.

31 Oct 2013

Aethon receives two prestigious awards for leadership, growth and innovation

Aethon is proud to be the recipient of two separate awards recognizing their leadership, growth and innovation.

31 Oct 2013

Protego develops sternal device for cardiac surgery with start-up investment from MRCF

Protego Medical Pty Ltd, an early stage medical technology company developing a medical device for sternal protection during cardiac surgery, was launched today with AU$2M start-up financing from Australia’s Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF). At the same time, the Company announced the appointment of Pablo Solis as CEO.

31 Oct 2013

Nanosonics named healthcare industry’s Company of the Year for 2013

Nanosonics Limited (ASX: NAN) is pleased to announce it has been named the healthcare industry’s Company of the Year for 2013.

31 Oct 2013

Reinnervate, Oncotest and SBH partner to offer 3D tumour cell screening services

3D cell culture company Reinnervate Ltd today announced partnerships with two oncology-focussed CRO's to offer 3D tumour cell screening services. The CROs, Oncotest GmbH (Freiburg, Germany) and SBH Sciences (Natick, MA, USA) will both offer a new service for clients wishing to try out cancer 3D cell culture screening for the first time or who wish to evaluate new tumour types in their models.

31 Oct 2013

Prestigious Janssen Industry Excellence Awards announced

The prestigious Janssen Industry Excellence Awards were announced as part of the official opening reception for the AusBiotech 2013 Conference at Brisbane City Hall last night; among them, internationally-acclaimed Brisbane-based researcher, Professor Ian Frazer.

31 Oct 2013

Cellectricon to demonstrate Cellaxess technology at Neuroscience 2013

Cellectricon, a leading provider of advanced cell-based screening technologies and services, will be presenting new data at Neuroscience 2013, 9-13 November, San Diego (USA).

From Cellectricon 31 Oct 2013

Aetna selects Swiss Life to offer international health care benefits and services

Aetna, a leading global diversified health care solutions company, has been selected by Zurich-based Swiss Life, a leading life and pension insurer, to offer international health care benefits and services for expatriates out of Singapore to its roster of multinational customers, effective immediately.

31 Oct 2013

President to invoke 'Romneycare' to defend health law

President Barack Obama heads to the same room in Boston where the Massachusetts health law was signed to call for bipartisanship to help the Affordable Care Act succeed.

31 Oct 2013

NJIT professor receives Innovators Award from New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame

Treena Livingston Arinzeh, PhD, of West Orange, a professor of biomedical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), received an Innovators Award from the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame (NJIHoF) in recognition of her research and inventions utilizing biomaterials and regenerative medicines for orthopedic and neural disorders.

31 Oct 2013

Dendrites multiply the brain's computing power

Dendrites, the branch-like projections of neurons, were once thought to be passive wiring in the brain. But now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that these dendrites do more than relay information from one neuron to the next.

31 Oct 2013

Technology News and Research

First Edition: November 4, 2013

Probiotics may help keep bad germs at bay

NeuroSky forms strategic partnership with SoftBank Mobile to improve health and wellness

Acoustic diode may improve future ultrasound images

Three Johns Hopkins Medicine hospitals named 2012 Top Performers on Key Quality Measures

Details emerge about key fixers in 'tech surge' to address website issues

Scientists find surprising degree of variation among genomes of individual neurons

Discovery may lead to curing of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease via photo therapy

Immunocore’s Phase IIa clinical trial for IMCgp100 in melanoma initiates in the UK and USA

Oncology drug development services: an interview with Dr. Jean-Pierre Wery, President of Crown Bioscience, Inc.

Aethon receives two prestigious awards for leadership, growth and innovation

Protego develops sternal device for cardiac surgery with start-up investment from MRCF

Nanosonics named healthcare industry’s Company of the Year for 2013

Reinnervate, Oncotest and SBH partner to offer 3D tumour cell screening services

Prestigious Janssen Industry Excellence Awards announced

Cellectricon to demonstrate Cellaxess technology at Neuroscience 2013

Aetna selects Swiss Life to offer international health care benefits and services

President to invoke 'Romneycare' to defend health law

NJIT professor receives Innovators Award from New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame

Dendrites multiply the brain's computing power

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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