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Sensyne Health and Bayer sign collaboration agreement to accelerate cardiovascular drug development

Sensyne Health plc, the British clinical AI technology company, today announces that it has signed an initial two-year collaboration agreement with Bayer to accelerate the clinical development of new treatments for cardiovascular disease using Sensyne Health’s proprietary clinical AI technology platform.

31 Jul 2019

Storability of food coloring affected by oxygen

EQ BOKU’s high-tech equipment at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna enables precise analysis of factors influencing the storability of natural coloring concentrates.

31 Jul 2019

New synthetic approach would facilitate development of medicine and agrochemicals

A group of Japanese researchers mainly from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) and Hokkaido University drastically enhanced and sped up the way to skeletally diverse indole alkaloids, composed of the medicinally-relevant scaffolds.

31 Jul 2019

Smartphone virus scanner could help tackle the spread of diseases

The current leading method to assess the presence of viruses and other biological markers of disease is effective but large and expensive. It is prohibitively difficult for use in many situations, especially due to certain economic and geographic factors.

31 Jul 2019

A stretchable, wireless, wearable health monitor

Researchers have developed wearable wireless monitors that contain stretchable electronics and would provide long term health data about the adults, babies and children. These sensors are an advantage over the presently used devices because they are free from the risk of skin allergic reactions and injuries that are associated with conventional adhesive sensors containing conductive gel formulations.

31 Jul 2019

Herbal medicine for preventing, healing vascular diseases

The system connects the arteries to the veins. There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the adult human body.

30 Jul 2019

Immersive virtual reality to help people with minor personal problems

People are often much better at giving useful advice to a friend in trouble than they are in dealing with their own problems.

30 Jul 2019

Plastic ingestion can have a significant negative impact on healthy seabirds

An IMAS-led study of seabirds that had ingested plastic debris has revealed a range of non-lethal impacts on their health and physiology.

30 Jul 2019

New wireless, stretchable electronics for long-term health monitoring

A wireless, wearable monitor built with stretchable electronics could allow comfortable, long-term health monitoring of adults, babies and small children without concern for skin injury or allergic reactions caused by conventional adhesive sensors with conductive gels.

30 Jul 2019

NemaMetrix raises $5 million USD funding to expand its Precisome platform

NemaMetrix, an Oregon-based company that provides phenotyping and functional analysis using C. elegans nematodes, today announced it has closed a $5 million USD funding round to expand its Precisome platform: a tool for in vivo testing for early drug discovery, agribio, and precision medicine.

From InVivo Biosystems 30 Jul 2019

Researchers unlock the key to clearly identifying diseased beta cells in type 2 diabetes

Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have unlocked the key to clearly identifying diseased beta cells in type 2 diabetes. This discovery has both research and therapeutic implications.

30 Jul 2019

Researchers link climate change to urban and suburban stormwater management

UMD researchers are connecting climate change to urban and suburban stormwater management, with the ultimate goal of increasing resiliency to major storm events.

30 Jul 2019

First ever American gene-editing treatment using CRISPR for genetic disease

In a pathbreaking experiment, a 34-year-old mother of four from Mississippi is in the limelight for volunteering to be the subject of CRISPR-mediated gene editing in the hope of achieving a cure for the painful sickle cell anemia with which she has suffered all her life.

30 Jul 2019

New DIY pressure pump enables more people to test water and blood samples

A simple pressure pump, made from balloons and nylon stockings, means more people in more places will be able to test water contaminants and blood samples.

30 Jul 2019

FDA clears existing tests with new indications to aid in the diagnosis of Lyme disease

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared for marketing four previously cleared tests with new indications to aid in the diagnosis of Lyme disease.

30 Jul 2019

Rutgers Health treats children with multiple sclerosis at the dedicated pediatric MS program

Alexander Wallerson was 12 years old when he saw a popular movie with his mother. Now 26, he remembers that specific day vividly. It was the first time he experienced the signs of multiple sclerosis (MS)."I walked like I was drunk," says Wallerson, who lives in New Brunswick. "I was limping but not in pain."

29 Jul 2019

First surgery performed in pivotal study for repair of thoracoabdominal and pararenal aortic aneurysms

The pivotal trial to determine the safety and effectiveness of a modular device designed to be the first completely off-the-shelf endovascular solution for aortic aneurysms involving the visceral branch vessels is successfully underway with its first surgery at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC.

29 Jul 2019

Genetics may influence the composition of the microbiome more than environmental factors

Researchers have found that the microbiome is influenced by genetics much more than it is by the maternal birth environment.

29 Jul 2019

Novel microfluidics device could save lives by accelerating sepsis diagnosis

Researchers have developed a novel microfluidics device that could dramatically speed up the diagnosis of sepsis.

29 Jul 2019

Cancer Research UK Convergence Science Centre announces tumor liquefying microbubbles

Scientists are re-imagining ultrasound technology to develop a treatment that can liquefy cancer cells in the body using microscopic bubbles – without the need for invasive surgery – as part of the new £13 million Cancer Research UK Convergence Science Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College London, announced today (Monday).

29 Jul 2019

Technology News and Research

Sensyne Health and Bayer sign collaboration agreement to accelerate cardiovascular drug development

Storability of food coloring affected by oxygen

New synthetic approach would facilitate development of medicine and agrochemicals

Smartphone virus scanner could help tackle the spread of diseases

A stretchable, wireless, wearable health monitor

Herbal medicine for preventing, healing vascular diseases

Immersive virtual reality to help people with minor personal problems

Plastic ingestion can have a significant negative impact on healthy seabirds

New wireless, stretchable electronics for long-term health monitoring

NemaMetrix raises $5 million USD funding to expand its Precisome platform

Researchers unlock the key to clearly identifying diseased beta cells in type 2 diabetes

Researchers link climate change to urban and suburban stormwater management

First ever American gene-editing treatment using CRISPR for genetic disease

New DIY pressure pump enables more people to test water and blood samples

FDA clears existing tests with new indications to aid in the diagnosis of Lyme disease

Rutgers Health treats children with multiple sclerosis at the dedicated pediatric MS program

First surgery performed in pivotal study for repair of thoracoabdominal and pararenal aortic aneurysms

Genetics may influence the composition of the microbiome more than environmental factors

Novel microfluidics device could save lives by accelerating sepsis diagnosis

Cancer Research UK Convergence Science Centre announces tumor liquefying microbubbles

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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