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Lucideon and ReBioStent project partners to host Bioresorbable Materials for Medical Applications session at ESB 2015

Lucideon, the international materials technology company, along with its partners on the ReBioStent project, will be hosting a satellite session, “Bioresorbable Materials for Medical Applications”, at the European Society of Biomaterials (ESB) conference 2015 in Krakow, Poland on the 2nd of September.

From Lucideon 5 Aug 2015

Implanted biochemical sensor could allow doctors to better monitor, adjust cancer treatments

In the battle against cancer, which kills nearly 8 million people worldwide each year, doctors have in their arsenal many powerful weapons, including various forms of chemotherapy and radiation. What they lack, however, is good reconnaissance — a reliable way to obtain real-time data about how well a particular therapy is working for any given patient.

5 Aug 2015

New partnership aims to provide high-tech healthcare learning opportunities for pediatric patients

A new partnership between The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries and Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth will mean new high-tech healthcare learning opportunities for pediatric patients.

5 Aug 2015

Amedica’s four scientific presentations to highlight benefits of silicon nitride platform at ISTA

Amedica Corporation, an innovative biomaterial company which develops and manufactures silicon nitride as a platform for biomedical applications, is pleased to announce all four submissions to the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty were accepted for presentation during the 28th annual congress occurring September 30 – October 3, 2015 in Vienna, Austria.

5 Aug 2015

Armada, UMass Medical School partner to enhance ArmadaOne Specialty Pharmacy Workflow Platform

Armada Health Care has partnered with University of Massachusetts Medical School's Clinical Pharmacy Services business unit to provide enhancements and support regarding clinical protocols and therapy interventions within the ArmadaOne Specialty Pharmacy Workflow Platform.

4 Aug 2015

Cardiac Science announces sale of 25 Powerheart G5 AEDs to Lippert Components

Cardiac Science announced the sale of 25 Powerheart G5 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to Lippert Components, Inc., a tier-1 supplier of parts and accessories to the RV, manufactured housing, trailer, and bus industries.

4 Aug 2015

Netsync Network Solutions achieves Telehealth Authorized Technology Provider status from Cisco

Netsync Network Solutions announced today that it has achieved Telehealth Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco. This designation recognizes Netsync Network Solutions as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support Cisco Telehealth solutions.

4 Aug 2015

Laser autofocus option added to BioTek’s Cytation Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Readers

BioTek’s award-winning Cytation Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Readers now have an option for laser autofocus, along with the current image-based autofocus method.

4 Aug 2015

Study identifies factors that contribute to government transparency

Public affairs experts say easy and constant access by citizens to important government information, referred to as government transparency, is vital for good governance as well as the perception by citizens that the government is trustworthy.

4 Aug 2015

SGI-DNA recognized by Frost & Sullivan for BioXp 3200 System

SGI-DNA, a Synthetic Genomics, Inc. company, was recently recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its groundbreaking innovation in genomic technologies for the BioXp 3200 System, an instrument with the capacity to simultaneously build 32 unique, double-stranded DNA fragments to study gene function, pathways, and whole genomes.

4 Aug 2015

G7 Therapeutics, MorphoSys collaborate on novel antibody therapeutics targeting GPCRs and ion channels

MorphoSys AG and G7 Therapeutics AG announced today that they have signed an agreement to collaborate on novel antibody therapeutics targeting G protein-coupled receptors and potentially other disease-related transmembrane proteins such as ion channels.

4 Aug 2015

Imperial Innovations announces launch of pre-clinical spinout company, Orthonika

Imperial Innovations is pleased to announce the launch of Orthonika, a spinout company from Imperial College London that is developing a novel knee meniscus replacement, MenisciKnit.

4 Aug 2015

Stress Resilience Training System app for military personnel now available through Apple App Store

The Stress Resilience Training System (SRTS), an app designed to provide resilience training for military personnel by Perceptronics Solutions, Inc., is now available through the Apple App Store for anyone with an iPad.

4 Aug 2015

Northwestern gets $17.5 million NIH grant to invent, develop implantable drug delivery system for HIV prevention

Northwestern Medicine scientists have received a five-year, $17.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for an interdisciplinary project that aims to invent, develop and test an implantable drug delivery system to protect high-risk individuals from HIV infection for up to a year at a time.

4 Aug 2015

NYSCF scientists design new robotic platform to automate generation of patient-specific stem cells

Scientists at The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute successfully designed a revolutionary, high-throughput, robotic platform that automates and standardizes the process of transforming patient samples into stem cells.

4 Aug 2015

First biodegradable gene delivery system efficiently penetrates human airway mucus barrier of lung tissue

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil have designed a DNA-loaded nanoparticle that can pass through the mucus barrier covering conducting airways of lung tissue — proving the concept, they say, that therapeutic genes may one day be delivered directly to the lungs to the levels sufficient to treat cystic fibrosis (CF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and other life-threatening lung diseases.

4 Aug 2015

Scientists develop artificial blood vessels that are resistant to blood clot formation

Scientists from ITMO University developed artificial blood vessels that are not susceptible to blood clot formation. The achievement was made possible by a new generation of drug-containing coating applied to the inner surface of the vessel.

4 Aug 2015

Scientists successfully test new tumor diagnosis method

Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, in cooperation with colleagues at the University of Zurich and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, have for the first time successfully tested a new tumor diagnosis method under near-real conditions. The new method first sends out an antibody as a "spy" to detect the diseased cells and then binds to them.

4 Aug 2015

Exalenz Bioscience, Galectin Therapeutics to use BreathID test to assess GR-MD-O2 efficacy in NASH Cirrhosis patients

Exalenz Bioscience, a leader in developing and marketing non-invasive medical devices for diagnosing and monitoring a range of gastrointestinal and liver diseases, today announced a collaboration with Galectin Therapeutics to use the BreathID test to monitor patients in a Phase II study evaluating GR-MD-02.

3 Aug 2015

Physically impaired people to compete at Cybathlon 2016

Zurich will host the first Cybathlon in autumn 2016, bringing together physical-ly impaired people from all over the world to compete against each other using the latest assistive technologies.

3 Aug 2015

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Lucideon and ReBioStent project partners to host Bioresorbable Materials for Medical Applications session at ESB 2015

Implanted biochemical sensor could allow doctors to better monitor, adjust cancer treatments

New partnership aims to provide high-tech healthcare learning opportunities for pediatric patients

Amedica’s four scientific presentations to highlight benefits of silicon nitride platform at ISTA

Armada, UMass Medical School partner to enhance ArmadaOne Specialty Pharmacy Workflow Platform

Cardiac Science announces sale of 25 Powerheart G5 AEDs to Lippert Components

Netsync Network Solutions achieves Telehealth Authorized Technology Provider status from Cisco

Laser autofocus option added to BioTek’s Cytation Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Readers

Study identifies factors that contribute to government transparency

SGI-DNA recognized by Frost & Sullivan for BioXp 3200 System

G7 Therapeutics, MorphoSys collaborate on novel antibody therapeutics targeting GPCRs and ion channels

Imperial Innovations announces launch of pre-clinical spinout company, Orthonika

Stress Resilience Training System app for military personnel now available through Apple App Store

Northwestern gets $17.5 million NIH grant to invent, develop implantable drug delivery system for HIV prevention

NYSCF scientists design new robotic platform to automate generation of patient-specific stem cells

First biodegradable gene delivery system efficiently penetrates human airway mucus barrier of lung tissue

Scientists develop artificial blood vessels that are resistant to blood clot formation

Scientists successfully test new tumor diagnosis method

Exalenz Bioscience, Galectin Therapeutics to use BreathID test to assess GR-MD-O2 efficacy in NASH Cirrhosis patients

Physically impaired people to compete at Cybathlon 2016

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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