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• Start-Up Creating Audio Technology from UC Davis Research

  
  Science Business — Authority: 138
  Dysonics chief technologist Robert Dalton demonstrates the company’s audio app and headphone device (University of California, Davis). A two year-old company spun-off from University California in Davis is designing a new type of audio experience based on research in the school’s engineering department. ...
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• Scientists Use Human Stem Cells to Generate Immune System in Mice

  
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  Raising hopes for cell-based therapies, UC San Francisco researchers have created the first functioning human thymus tissue from embryonic stem cells in the laboratory. The researchers showed that, in mice, the tissue can be used to foster the development of white blood cells the body needs to mount healthy immune ...
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• New theory on genesis of osteoarthritis comes with successful therapy in mice

  
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  In the future, joint replacement surgery might be avoidable Scientists at Johns Hopkins have turned their view of osteoarthritis (OA) inside out. Literally. Instead of seeing the painful degenerative disease as a problem primarily of the cartilage that cushions joints, they now have evidence that the bone underneath ...
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• Detecting disease earlier

  
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  Shaky hands, tremors, rigid muscles, slower movements—these are all recognizable symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, a neurological disorder affecting a half million people in the United States. Rahul Shrivastav, professor and chair of MSU’s Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, is working on a way to ...
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• Karyopharm Grabs $48.2M Series B To Advance Cancer Drugs

  
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  Ben Fidler Karyopharm Therapeutics believes it can build a platform of cancer drugs off of the idea of keeping the body’s tumor-suppressing proteins in the nucleus of cells, where they can do their jobs properly. With the help of a new $48.2 million round of funding, now it has enough cash to test that thesis in ...
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• Molecular Machines and the Problematic RNA World

  
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• NanoString Technologies Maneuvers In Line for $86M IPO

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 598
  Luke Timmerman NanoString Technologies just started selling its first diagnostic test after 10 years in business, and now it’s getting ready for another milestone—an initial public offering. The Seattle-based company said today that it is seeking to raise as much as $86.3 million in an IPO, according to a ...
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• IV Catheters Linked to Blood Clot Risk in Sickest Patients

  
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  Example of peripherally inserted central catheter (AHRQ.gov) Medical researchers at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor found a widely used catheter for intravenous (IV) drug delivery is linked to a higher risk of deep vein blood clots, particularly among critically ill patients or those with cancer. The findings ...
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• Accelerate LI’s Lofty Goal: Create the Next U.S. Innovation Cluster

  
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  Ben Fidler When Astellas Pharma shuttered the labs of OSI Pharmaceuticals last week, no one felt that loss as acutely as the residents of Long Island, NY. OSI, famed for its lung cancer drug erlotinib (Tarceva), had shown that it was possible to create a large pharmaceutical company on Long Island. Not only was it ...
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• Research to end asbestos-related cancer

  
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  Scientists from Flinders University are trying to develop a new treatment for a highly aggressive, asbestos-related lung cancer that is set to become more prevalent in the future. Led by Associate Professor Sonja Klebe, the researchers are testing a combination of drugs and gene therapy to block two proteins that ...
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• University of Chicago Launches Bionimbus Protected Data Cloud to Analyze Cancer Data

  
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  Medical advances facilitated by NSF-funded foundational research provide alternative to large, costly and cumbersome storage infrastructure. May 15, 2013 The University of Chicago launched the first secure cloud-based computing system that enables researchers to access and analyze human genomic cancer information ...
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• Research uncovers a potential role of two proteins in diabetes

  
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  Flinders University researchers are breaking new ground in a decade-long journey to pinpoint the function of two closely related proteins. They now have data that reveals a role for these proteins in regulating cell metabolism. Disturbances in metabolism underlie a number of human diseases including type 2 diabetes, ...
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• Focus on STD, Not Cancer Prevention, to Promote HPV Vaccine Use

  
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  The HPV vaccine can prevent both cervical cancer and a nasty sexually transmitted disease in women.  But emphasizing the STD prevention will persuade more young women to get the vaccine, a new study suggests. These results go against the conventional wisdom that scaring women about the possibility of cancer is the ...
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• This disease’s deadliest weapon is the fact you’ve never heard of it

  
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  A deadly fungal infection has been spreading across western North America. The number of human and animal cases has grown rapidly in recent years, to the extent that government agencies in US and Canada have labelled the infection an outbreak. The infection, cryptococcosis, affects the lungs first, because it is ...
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• Study finds brain system for emotional self-control

  
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  Different brain areas are activated when we choose for ourselves to suppress an emotion, compared to situations where we are instructed to inhibit an emotion, according a new study from the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Ghent University. In this study, published in Brain Structure and Function, the ...
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• There Are A Zillion Biotech Conferences. Which Should You Attend?

  
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  Luke Timmerman Biotech industry conferences are happening, somewhere on this green Earth, every day. If you’ve been around a while, and you’ve attended a few, chances are you get invitations, or marketing pitches, that ask you to attend a different meeting every day. If you’re new to the business, you may ...
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• Brain training and stimulation improves mental arithmetic ability

  
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  With just a few days of non-harmful brain stimulation and brain training, scientists have improved people’s ability to manipulate numbers for up to six months. In new research, scientists at the University of Oxford and UCL suggest that applying non-invasive stimulation, called transcranial random noise stimulation ...
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• Rise in type 2 diabetes amongst young

  
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  The number of young people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes has seen the sharpest rise over the last twenty years compared to a background of a general increase across the board, new University research has found. The research by Professor Craig Currie, School of Medicine, published in the journal Diabetes, Obesity and ...
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• Half time warm-ups boost athletic performance

  
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  High-intensity, short duration warm up activities at half time intervals boost athletic performance, a study of soccer players has found. The research may provide an insight into how losing teams could close the gap on winning teams, or how winning teams accelerate away from their opponents, say experts. Contrary to ...
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• Preclinical Test Shows Vaccine Stops Cocaine Reaching Brain

  
  Science Business — Authority: 138
  Crack cocaine (DEA.gov) Medical researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York tested in primates a vaccine candidate against cocaine addiction, which showed the vaccine prevented cocaine from reaching the brain and inducing a dopamine high. The findings from the team led by genetic medical researcher ...
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