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Biotech CEO Faces Felony Charge Of Computer Trespass

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16 Oct 2013

Jain Foundation Steps Up Efforts To Find Cure For Muscular Dystrophy

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16 Oct 2013

Pieris Inks Co-Development Alliance With Zydus For Protein Drugs

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16 Oct 2013

Astrazeneca To Use Wyss Institute’s Organs-On-Chips

AstraZeneca has taken a small step in reducing the need for traditional animal testing by signing on to evaluate Organs-on-Chips from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.

16 Oct 2013

CEO Faces Felony Charge Of Computer Trespass

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16 Oct 2013

CEL-SCI, Ergomed To Co-Develop Head And Neck Cancer Candidate As Potential HPV Treatment

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16 Oct 2013

SAGE Therapeutics obtains $20M Series B financing from two investors

SAGE Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel medicines to treat central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today announced a $20 million Series B financing from investors ARCH Venture Partners and Third Rock Ventures, bringing the total raised to $57.8 million since launch in 2011.

16 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 16, 2013

Today's headlines including stories detailing how certain health law provisions are factoring in to the continuing congressional budget stalemate.

16 Oct 2013

New app for intelligent glasses could improve gait of Parkinson's disease patients

A new app for intelligent glasses, such as Google Glass, will soon make it possible to improve the gait of patients suffering from Parkinson's disease and to decrease their risk of falling. Researchers at the University of Twente's MIRA Institute have received a grant from the NutsOhra fund for the development of the app.

16 Oct 2013

Saratoga Hospital deploys LUMEDX's HealthView solutions in cardiovascular service line

LUMEDX Corporation, a leading provider of vendor-neutral cardiovascular imaging and information systems, announced today that Saratoga Hospital has deployed LUMEDX's HealthView in its cardiovascular service line.

16 Oct 2013

Trovagene launches pharmaceutical alliance to monitor lung cancer patients' EGFR mutational status

Trovagene, Inc., a developer of cell-free molecular diagnostics, today announced that it will collaborate with a pharmaceutical company to evaluate Trovagene's proprietary, urine-based, cell-free DNA technology for the detection of certain epidermal growth factor receptor mutations associated with lung cancer.

16 Oct 2013

New $1.9M research grant to support investigators to detect tumors in earliest stages of formation

The National Cancer Institute's new Provocative Questions research funding program has awarded a prestigious grant to researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University's Schools of Medicine and Engineering to study tumor detection at the earliest stages of growth.

16 Oct 2013

BWH, Case Western awarded $7.7M NIH grant to establish NHLBI National Sleep Research Resource

A $7.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to Brigham and Women's Hospital and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will establish the NHLBI National Sleep Research Resource, a comprehensive, easily accessible and well-annotated national repository of sleep data.

16 Oct 2013

New type of antibiotic kills multidrug-resistant germ common to health care settings

A new type of antibiotic called a PPMO, which works by blocking genes essential for bacterial reproduction, successfully killed a multidrug-resistant germ common to health care settings, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report.

16 Oct 2013

Data suggest state-run online insurance marketplaces making progress -- 38,000 people have signed up; 100,000 have completed applications

Meanwhile, headlines across the country offer updates on specific state exchanges in California, Florida, Michigan, Oregon, Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota and Colorado.

16 Oct 2013

Brain damage treatment could be as close as the wardrobe

For those with brain damage or neurological disorders - such as MS or Parkinson's - treatment could be as close as the wardrobe.

16 Oct 2013

Results of Phase 3 clinical trial of contraceptive vaginal ring presented by Population Council

Today, the Population Council presented findings from a Phase 3 clinical trial that was designed to demonstrate the safety, efficacy, and acceptability of the Council's investigational one-year contraceptive vaginal ring (CVR).

16 Oct 2013

Researchers develop new method to produce artificial membranes using nanoscaled tip

Researchers around Dr. Michael Hirtz from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Dr. Aravind Vijayaraghavan from the University of Manchester have developed a new method to produce artificial membranes: Using a nanoscaled tip, they write tailored patches of phospholipid membrane onto a graphene substrate.

16 Oct 2013

New method may pave way to effective, targeted cancer treatments

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, Mayo Clinic, and University of Toronto have successfully shown that a new method for targeting mutated cells could create a major breakthrough in a personalized medicine approach to treat cancer.

16 Oct 2013

Next Dimension Imaging releases AnatomyLab IV product based on 3D-View architecture

Next Dimension Imaging, a leading provider of Medical Education software for the Anatomy of the human body has announced the release of its new product AnatomyLab IV. Based on a new multi-million-polygon 3D-model, the product combines information technology with 3-dimensional anatomical visualization.

16 Oct 2013

Technology News and Research

Biotech CEO Faces Felony Charge Of Computer Trespass

Jain Foundation Steps Up Efforts To Find Cure For Muscular Dystrophy

Pieris Inks Co-Development Alliance With Zydus For Protein Drugs

Astrazeneca To Use Wyss Institute’s Organs-On-Chips

CEO Faces Felony Charge Of Computer Trespass

CEL-SCI, Ergomed To Co-Develop Head And Neck Cancer Candidate As Potential HPV Treatment

SAGE Therapeutics obtains $20M Series B financing from two investors

First Edition: October 16, 2013

New app for intelligent glasses could improve gait of Parkinson's disease patients

Saratoga Hospital deploys LUMEDX's HealthView solutions in cardiovascular service line

Trovagene launches pharmaceutical alliance to monitor lung cancer patients' EGFR mutational status

New $1.9M research grant to support investigators to detect tumors in earliest stages of formation

BWH, Case Western awarded $7.7M NIH grant to establish NHLBI National Sleep Research Resource

New type of antibiotic kills multidrug-resistant germ common to health care settings

Data suggest state-run online insurance marketplaces making progress -- 38,000 people have signed up; 100,000 have completed applications

Brain damage treatment could be as close as the wardrobe

Results of Phase 3 clinical trial of contraceptive vaginal ring presented by Population Council

Researchers develop new method to produce artificial membranes using nanoscaled tip

New method may pave way to effective, targeted cancer treatments

Next Dimension Imaging releases AnatomyLab IV product based on 3D-View architecture

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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