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NVIDIA and King’s College London partner to build AI infrastructure for improving patient care

King's College London was today announced as the first partner to adopt the NVIDIA DGX-2 and NVIDIA Clara platform.

11 Oct 2018

Good bacterium in probiotic digestive supplements helps eliminate Staphylococcus aureus

A new study from National Institutes of Health scientists and their Thai colleagues shows that a "good" bacterium commonly found in probiotic digestive supplements helps eliminate Staphylococcus aureus, a type of bacteria that can cause serious antibiotic-resistant infections.

11 Oct 2018

New molecular switch may help develop sophisticated photomedications

Light-activated switches are too small to be seen by the naked eye, but the molecular systems are hard at work in research related to drug design, adaptive materials and data storage.

11 Oct 2018

Columbia scientist and collaborators receive $11.3 million to find new targets against brain disease

Anthony Fitzpatrick, PhD, a Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, together with scientists from the Mayo Clinic and Boston Children's Hospital, has been awarded $11.3 million to map the three-dimensional structures of protein tangles that accumulate in the human brain.

11 Oct 2018

Research team awarded $3.6 million to assess safety of genome editing

As genome editing technologies quickly advance toward clinical therapies, they are raising hopes of a completely new way to treat disease. They are also bringing to light a number of challenges that need to be addressed before potential treatments can be widely used in patients.

11 Oct 2018

Nail polish labels that promote fewer ingredients are not necessarily safer

Consumers are growing more knowledgeable about the potential health effects of nail polish, and manufacturers have taken action.

11 Oct 2018

Technology-based positive psychology exercises improve quality of life in kidney dialysis patients

Kidney dialysis patients who engage in technology-based positive psychology exercises during their treatments may significantly improve their depressive symptoms and quality of life, a new study found.

11 Oct 2018

MU, MIT researchers evaluate accuracy of new technology to monitor blood glucose levels

For those living with diabetes, monitoring blood glucose accurately is necessary to prevent diabetes-related complications such as heart attacks, blindness and coma.

11 Oct 2018

Medidata Cloud streamlines management of medical images for global heart measurement study

Medidata today announced that Medidata Cloud, the Intelligent Platform for Life Sciences, is streamlining the management of medical images for the World Alliance of Societies of Echocardiography (WASE) Normal Values Study.

10 Oct 2018

Synedgen announces market launch of Moisyn Rinse for treatment of dry mouth symptoms

Synedgen, a company leveraging its proprietary glycomics technology platform to develop glycopolymer-based therapeutics for infectious and inflammatory conditions, today announced the market launch of Moisyn Rinse for the treatment of the symptoms of xerostomia, or dry mouth. Moisyn Rinse is being distributed by Prisyna, the oral care division of Synedgen.

10 Oct 2018

A new promising method for treating pancreatic cancer

A new approach to treating pancreatic cancer using 'educated killer cells' has shown promise, according to early research by Queen Mary University of London.

10 Oct 2018

PAREXEL develops several new patient-centric solutions to address drug development

PAREXEL International Corporation, a leading innovator of global biopharmaceutical services, today announced that it has developed several new solutions that take a patient-centric approach to addressing drug development.

From Parexel 10 Oct 2018

Co-Diagnostics awarded patent related to its CoPrimer platform technology

Co-Diagnostics, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company with a unique, proprietary platform for the development of molecular diagnostic tests, announced today that it has been awarded a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office related to the Company's CoPrimer™ platform technology.

10 Oct 2018

Doctors give Medicare’s proposal to pay for telemedicine poor prognosis

The Trump administration wants Medicare for the first time to embrace telemedicine across the country by paying doctors $14 for a five-minute "check-in" phone call with their patients.

10 Oct 2018

15 promising technologies that could limit global catastrophic biological risks

Strategic investment in 15 promising technologies could help make the world better prepared and equipped to prevent future infectious disease outbreaks from becoming catastrophic events.

10 Oct 2018

Cleaning up PFAS-contaminated wastewater with diamond technology

More than 1.5 million Michigan residents and potentially more than hundreds of sites nationwide ¬- and counting - have PFAS-tainted water. Michigan State University-Fraunhofer USA, Inc. Center for Coatings and Diamond Technologies (MSU-Fraunhofer) is developing a scalable treatment option for PFAS-contaminated wastewater.

10 Oct 2018

Federal grant awarded to Indiana University researcher-entrepreneur for startup

A high-tech startup founded by an Indiana University researcher-entrepreneur has been awarded a federal grant to develop technology that aims to reduce the use of animals in chemical toxicity studies of food, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other products.

10 Oct 2018

New mobile apps may simplify complex genomic and biome data

Spurred by the rapidly expanding use of in-home tests for "omic" - genomic and microbiomic - data for humans, pets, and even homes themselves, university researchers have begun tackling the difficult challenge of making the results interactive and understandable to non-experts.

10 Oct 2018

Bridge-like structure within estrogen receptor could serve as new drug target for breast cancer

Many breast cancer drugs block estrogen receptors inside cancer cells. Blocking the receptors early in disease progression staves off metastasis.

10 Oct 2018

Pioneering software system hopes to make epilepsy surgery safer and easier

A team of researchers, clinicians and engineers from UCLH, UCL, King's College London and the Epilepsy Society have developed a world-leading software system called EpiNav, which stands for epilepsy navigation, and their work is being featured on tonight's episode of the BBC's Trust Me I'm a Doctor.

10 Oct 2018

Technology News and Research

NVIDIA and King’s College London partner to build AI infrastructure for improving patient care

Good bacterium in probiotic digestive supplements helps eliminate Staphylococcus aureus

New molecular switch may help develop sophisticated photomedications

Columbia scientist and collaborators receive $11.3 million to find new targets against brain disease

Research team awarded $3.6 million to assess safety of genome editing

Nail polish labels that promote fewer ingredients are not necessarily safer

Technology-based positive psychology exercises improve quality of life in kidney dialysis patients

MU, MIT researchers evaluate accuracy of new technology to monitor blood glucose levels

Medidata Cloud streamlines management of medical images for global heart measurement study

Synedgen announces market launch of Moisyn Rinse for treatment of dry mouth symptoms

A new promising method for treating pancreatic cancer

PAREXEL develops several new patient-centric solutions to address drug development

Co-Diagnostics awarded patent related to its CoPrimer platform technology

Doctors give Medicare’s proposal to pay for telemedicine poor prognosis

15 promising technologies that could limit global catastrophic biological risks

Cleaning up PFAS-contaminated wastewater with diamond technology

Federal grant awarded to Indiana University researcher-entrepreneur for startup

New mobile apps may simplify complex genomic and biome data

Bridge-like structure within estrogen receptor could serve as new drug target for breast cancer

Pioneering software system hopes to make epilepsy surgery safer and easier

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