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How rod-shaped particles might distract an out-of-control COVID immune response
Lola Eniola-Adefeso | Via University of Michigan | June 10, 2020A long-ignored white blood cell may be central to the immune system overreaction that is the most common cause of death for COVID-19 patients—and University of Michigan researchers found that rod-shaped particles can take them out of circulation. The No. 1 cause of death for COVID-19 patients echoes the way the 1918 influenza pandemic killed: […]
DoD Funds Clinical Trial of Seraph Blood Filter to Treat COVID-19
Robert Ward | Via MD+DI Online | June 9, 2020The Department of Defense is funding a clinical trial of a COVID-19 treatment using ExThera Medical’s Seraph 100 Blood filter. The device was selected to be in the multi-center randomized clinical trial because it showed encouraging preliminary results in critically ill COVID-19 patients at a military hospital in the U.S. and 14 other hospitals in […]
Boston Scientific Receives Medicare Transitional Pass-Through Payment for the EXALT™ Model D Single-Use Duodenoscope
Brian Dunkin | Via PR NewsWire | June 8, 2020Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) today announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved its application for a transitional pass-through (TPT) payment category to describe single-use endoscopes, including the EXALT™ Model D Single-Use Duodenoscope, under the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS). The intent of TPT payment is to facilitate Medicare […]
Study Finds Screened Health Care Workers Unlikely to Be Covid-19 Carriers
Terence Sanger | Via MedicalResearch.com | June 4, 2020MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Dr. Terence Sanger MD Pediatric Neurology Vice president of Research and Chief Scientific Officer CHOC Children’s UC Irvine School of Medicine MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: During the current pandemic, publicly available data on the prevalence of COVID-19 infection among healthcare workers has been limited. This […]
Wearable COVID-19 Sensor Receives NSF RAPID Grant
John Rogers | Via Northwesternn University | June 3, 2020Device monitors early signs, disease progression and response to treatment A research team led by Northwestern Engineering bioelectronics pioneer John A. Rogers has received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue developing a novel wearable device and set of algorithms specifically tailored to catch early signs and monitor progression of COVID-19. […]
New technique takes 3D imaging an octave higher
Gabriel Popescu | Via UIUC | June 2, 2020A collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Colorado State University resulted in a new 3D imaging technique called harmonic optical tomography that facilitates the visualization of tissues and other biological samples on a microscopic scale. The technique can potentially be used to assist with diagnosing cancer and other diseases. The […]
USF COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Effort Delivers Funding in Second Round of Pandemic Projects
Paul Sanberg | Via University of South Florida | May 29, 2020The University of South Florida’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants program is investing in 14 faculty research projects that would advance new medical interventions to detect and stop infections, develop innovations in personal protective equipment, and address fear and confusion in communities particularly vulnerable to the virus. A total of $344,855 will support this new round […]
Unique ‘home built’ device provides fast disease analysis in kidneys affected by diabetes
Enrico Gratton | Via EurekAlert | May 28, 2020The amount of scarring in damaged kidneys as a result of diabetes or acute injury, is a key factor in determining treatment. But it has not been possible, using traditional techniques, to quickly and accurately assess how widespread this kind of wounding extends within the organ. Now, however, a physicist and chemist at Georgetown University […]
This Year on Memorial Day, We Honor the Heroes
Rory Cooper | Via HERL | May 27, 2020Memorial Day serves as a time to reflect on the sacrifices made by members of the Armed Forces, their families, friends, and all their loved ones. This year on Memorial Day, we honor the heroes, including people on the front lines of COVID-19, who gave their lives to defend our freedoms and way of life. […]
Tampa company, Kaligia Biosciences, developing portable, rapid, saliva-based COVID-19 screening devices
Stephen Liggett | Via Tampa Dispatch | May 27, 2020The reopening of the world economy is largely reliant on easy and accessible COVID-19 screening. Kaligia Biosciences, a medical device company, is working with major Florida medical institutions to develop a portable, saliva-based device that can produce results in less than three minutes. Kaligia Biosciences is starting clinical trials of the Rapid Biofluid Analyzer 2 […]
Extraction of Skin Interstitial Fluid Using Microneedle Patches
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Terasaki Institute | May 27, 2020The interstitial fluid is a major component of the liquid environment in the body and fills the spaces between the body’s cells. In contrast, blood circulates only within the circulatory vessels of the body and is composed of blood cells and the liquid part of the blood, plasma. Both fluids contain special components called biomarkers, […]
Decreasing the Time from Antibody Idea to IND Approval
Ram Sasisekharan | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | May 26, 2020In 2015, Ram Sasisekharan, PhD, the Alfred H. Caspary professor of biological engineering and health sciences & technology at MIT, founded Tychan. The company concentrates on one key goal: decreasing the time from antibody idea to investigational new drug (IND) approval. Now, the company claims it can cut the average time in half and more. […]
IBEC researchers find a new way to effectively transport drugs to the brain
Silvia Muro | Via Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia | May 26, 2020An international group of researchers from the University of Maryland (United States) and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) led by ICREA Research Professor Silvia Muro, has identified a new way of transporting drugs to the brain, one of the major challenges of the pharmaceutical science today, that could help to come up with […]
Prophylactic Drug Delivery System for COVID-19
Heather Sheardown | Via McMaster University | May 22, 2020The Heather Sheardown lab (McMaster University, Canada) is home to an interdisciplinary team of scientists and trainees with expertise in ophthalmology, polymer and biomaterial engineering, chemistry, pharmaceutical formulation and drug delivery, animal/ex-vivo/in-vitro models of disease and drug delivery, early stage material design and synthesis, and synthetic method scalability optimization. As the availability of a SARS-CoV-2 […]
Combinatorial screening approach opens path to better-quality joint cartilage
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Terasaki Institute | May 22, 2020Cartilage is far from being like cartilage. As a rubber-like elastic tissue with widely varying properties, it lubricates our joints to keep them healthy and in motion, and forms many of our internal structures such as the intervertebral discs in our spine, the flexible connections between our ribs, and our voice box, as well as […]
Go behind the virus on its entry way with targeted pharmacological therapy: the inhalation route of anti SARS-Cov2 active substances.
Ruggero Bettini | Via AIMBE Public Documents | May 21, 2020BACKGROUND SARS-Cov2 is the last appeared coronavirus that developed a pandemic infection with huge number of fatal cases. No vaccines are yet available that protect from this infection. However, a number of therapeutic tactics against COVID-19 have been empirically started. According to Mehra et al., 2020, in COVID-19 illness, a structured approach to clinical is […]
Go behind the virus on its entry way with targeted pharmacological therapy: the inhalation route of anti SARS-Cov2 active substances.
Paolo Colombo | Via AIMBE Public Documents | May 21, 2020BACKGROUND SARS-Cov2 is the last appeared coronavirus that developed a pandemic infection with huge number of fatal cases. No vaccines are yet available that protect from this infection. However, a number of therapeutic tactics against COVID-19 have been empirically started. According to Mehra et al., 2020, in COVID-19 illness, a structured approach to clinical is […]
UC Davis Engineering Projects Fight COVID-19
Cristina Davis | Via UC Davis | May 20, 2020With new seed grants from the UC Davis Office of Research’s COVID-19 Research Accelerator Funding Track (CRAFT), three teams of UC Davis engineers are applying their expertise toward the pandemic response to help people become safer, healthier and better-tested. Mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) professor and chair Cristina Davis and chemical engineering (CHE) faculty Priya […]
Regenerative medicine center led by School of Dentistry gets $31.4M
Dave Kohn | Via University of Michigan | May 19, 2020A $31.4 million federal grant will allow a regenerative medicine resource center led by the School of Dentistry to continue its important research into the restoration of dental, oral and craniofacial tissues lost to disease, injury or congenital disorders. The five-year grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research is the largest research […]