donated tissues are stored within a medical-grade refrigeration unit in sealed bags filled with a standard preservation solution.
says medical entomologist Gregory Lanzaro, professor in the pathology, microbiology and immunology department at University of California,
The results from this study were published today in the Journal of Experimental Medicine within an article entitled I3-kinase activation is critical for host barrier permissiveness to Listeria monocytogenes Listeria relies on two surface proteins called
A committee of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) yesterday called for the sharing of supporting data for clinical trials results within six months after publication, with a full analyzable data set shared no later than 18 months
professor of medicine and leader of the YODA Project. e hope this action serves as a catalyst to others to join the momentum on open science.
The European Medicines Agency in October issued a more expansive data sharing policy last October, though not the full open-access sought by advocates.
Thousands of times thinner than the average human hair, nanofibers are used by medical researchers to create advanced wound dressings and for tissue regeneration
"says Geoff Woods, M d, from the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the University of Cambridge,
Genentech provided its medicines to more than 180,000 people last year for free or reduced cost. Willson noted that the Genentech Access to Care Foundation recently changed its financial criteria with the goal of helping more people, n recognition of the changing healthcare environment and the increasing number of people with high out
e understand that the cost of medicines can be challenging for some patients, Novartis said. he majority of CML patients in the U s. pay less than $100 out of pocket per month for our CML treatments,
and we are committed to ensuring that patients have access to their medicines. To that end, Novartis said,
its patient assistance program provides the company medicines for free or at a reduced cost to those who can afford them,
The company CML medicines have been provided free to an average of 5 000 uninsured or underinsured patients in the U s. annually for the past six-and-a-half yearsore than $1 billion in free medicine. ecause the cost of drugs is one of the few transparent healthcare costs,
drugs get much public attention, yet are only a small percentage of spending and demonstrate remarkable rewards,
yet developers can win payer approval for a costlier medicine by agreeing to allow limited-time use,
said Adam Perriman, Ph d.,from the University of Bristol school of cellular and molecular medicine."
said Adam Perriman, Ph d.,from the University of Bristol school of cellular and molecular medicine."
or sensory recovery, said Hua-Zi Xu, M d.,department of spinal surgery, the second affiliated hospital of Wenzhou Medical University.'
"Our study has great biological and medical significance, particularly in light of the huge disease burden of malaria,"explained senior author Manoj Duraisingh, Ph d.,professor of Immunology and Infectious diseases at the T. H. Chan School of Public health."
#Depersonalized Medicine Shows Promising Results Against Cancer Researchers at St louis University (SLU) say they have,
Unlike recent advances in personalized medicine that focus on specific genetic mutations associated with different types of cancer,
even though the American Society for Reproductive Medicine holds that infertility is due in equal measure to male and female factors.
The scientific team presented their results July 8 in Science Translational Medicine, in an article entitled,
noted the authors of the Science Translational Medicine article. According to Dr. Krawetz, the diagnostic potential of next-generation sequencing of sperm RNA indicates this method is suited"better to the task"of analyzing the male's role in infertility,
and is a step toward personalized precision reproductive medicine that may help guide the couple to their successful treatment.
The technique could become part of a routine examination as"we move toward personalized and precision medicine,"Dr. Krawetz asserted.
it requires medical personnel with technical skills and brings the risk of needle-related diseases and injuries.
It is also easy to use without the need for trained medical personnel, making it ideal for use in developing countries,
The Sierra leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola (STRIVE) Phase III study being conducted by the Sierra leone College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, Sierra leone Ministry of Health,
The drug has been submitted to both the US Federal Drug and Food administration and the European Medicines Agency for consideration, with the scientists hopeful of winning approval later this year.
paving the way for these materials to be used for biodegradable sensors and medical implants. But the applications of a highly-conductive graphene ink could be
the hardware inside is starting to show huge promise in the world of medical diagnostics,
and a Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council award, was published in the Science Translational Medicine journal in April.
and it Will be Not-for-Profit The world first malaria vaccine has been given approval by a European medical agency for future use in Sub-saharan africa, where more than a quarter million children under the age of five die every year from the disease.
With this approval from the European Medicines Agency Friday, the vaccine next will be considered by the World health organizations,
and Response is aimed at 1. 6 million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries whose medical and assistive equipment oxygen concentrators, ventilators,
and EMS teams prepare for surges in medical services. Emergency planners could also use the map to anticipate
This according to new peer-reviewed research published today in the journal Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
chief of pediatric critical care medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, said in a news release announcing the finding."
#Spoken sentences can be reconstructed from brain activity patterns It is now possible to reconstruct spoken sentences from activity patterns of the human brain surface. rain to Textcombines knowledge from neuroscience, medicine and informatics.
our recent results indicate that both single units in terms of speech sounds as well as continuously spoken sentences can be recognized from brain activity. hese results were obtained by an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers of informatics, neuroscience, and medicine.
and this has got applications in chemistry, engineering, biology, medicine, so there's a lot of potential there and that's just for research purposes,
once perfected, may open the door to a variety of new 3d printing applications within the art industry, medicine, aerospace, security, architecture, and more.
The work appears in today's (Jan 21) issue of Science Translational Medicine e
#Bye bye Baubles: New 3d printers Could Build Implants Electronics Several new 3d printers showcased at CES 2015 in Las vegas earlier this month suggest that the 3d printing industry best known for churning out brightly colored plastic doodads could be turning over a new
Amid the rough-edged replicas of superheroes and army tanks that adorned the expo's 3d printing space stood a machine that prints tiny medical implants that dissolve inside the human body.
"7 Cool Uses of 3d printing in Medicine During cartilage replacement surgery, the scaffold containing the stem cells would be implanted in the knee,
Dr. Daniel Kraft, a pediatrician and the founding executive director of Exponential Medicine, at a talk here at the 2015 CES."
so that chances can be made to their daily medicines or lifestyle. Is Grandma OK? Forget the cliché of dying alone and unnoticed till neighbors notice a funny smell.
#Shaping Implantable Medical devices to Avoid Immune system Tiny medical implants that can ferry drugs, cells, or other therapies safely to sites of disease are already seeing the light of day.
The hope is that this new application of optogenetics to voluntary muscles will help in medical research
Study in Science Translational Medicine: Detection of human brain cancer infiltration ex vivo and in vivo using quantitative optical coherence tomographyource:
Johns Hopkins Medicine
#Electromagnetic field Activated Drug Loadded Nanowires Drug releasing implants can be of great benefit for conditions requiring long term treatment in a targeted area of the body.
#New Technology for Blood-Free Glucose Sensing The University of Leeds may have solved one of the biggest holy grails in medicine,
In a small scale clinical study at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, the technology has shown considerable promise to be able to match currently used glucometers.
A 2014 Gallup poll found that 41 percent of Americans find medical testing on animals to be morally wrong,
"Ultra-miniaturized devices like this have tremendous potential for science and medicine.""With a thickness of 80 micrometers and a width of 500 micrometers, the optofluidic implant is thinner than the metal tubes,
Dr. Hemant K. Roy professor of medicine and Chief of gastroenterology at Boston Medical center and an author of the study."
which funds transformative technological innovation designed to solve major medical problems with a substantial disease burden,
and even medicine. Now a team of Northwestern University researchers has found a way to print three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes.
The fast and efficient method could open up new opportunities for using graphene printed scaffolds regenerative engineering and other electronic or medical applications.
so it could be used for biodegradable sensors and medical implants. Shah said the biocompatible elastomer
Many thousands of times thinner than the average human hair, nanofibers are used by medical researchers to create advanced wound dressings--and for tissue regeneration
It can also be used in the production of artificial skin or other medical stuff. In this research, nanocomposite scaffold was made of silk fibroin,
which could have broad medical applications, "Borgens said.""The technology is in the early stages of testing,
breaks through in medical technology June 23rd, 2015nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd,
or chemical environment to provide unique functionality in a wide range of applications from energy to medicine.
and medical industries due to their properties, including semi-conductivity, being piezoelectric and pyroelectric and biocompatibility.
and innovation programm 1 e. Its main objective is to reach a level of international excellence in nanomedicine characterisation for medical indications like cancer, diabetes, inflammatory diseases or infections,
EU-NCL is connected also closely to national medicine agencies and the European Medicines Agency to continuously adapt its analytical services to requests of regulators.
EU-NCL is designed, organized and operated according to the highest EU regulatory and quality standards. This project is important for Europe,
in-vitro and in vivo biological testing), allowing researchers to fully comprehend the biodistribution, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, safety profiles and immunological effects of their medicinal nanoproducts.
To foster the use and deployment of standard operating procedures (SOPS), benchmark materials and quality management for the preclinical characterisation of medicinal nanoproducts.
Winner of the 2015 Lindros Award for translational medicine, Kjeld Janssen is pushing the boundaries of the emerging lab-on-a-chip technology The postage stamp-sized square of fused silica Kjeld Janssen is holding
but inside the clear chip lies the potential to improve how medicine and medical research is done. f you can integrate
and automate an analysis technique into a chip, it opens doors to great applications, said Janssen, a postdoctoral researcher in the Sumita Pennathur Lab at UC Santa barbara. With only a minimal amount of human plasma,
particularly in remote areas where people don have access to a full medical lab, as well as data gathering for clinical trials or epidemiological studies.
For the impact his project will have in the field of translational medicine the postdoctoral scholar has been awarded the 2015 Lindros Award from the UCSB Translational Medical Research Laboratory (TMRL.
and methodologies in all of medicine, said Dr. Scott Hammond, executive director of TMRL. orking with the Pennathur Lab, Kjeld Janssen research is intended to bring real-time detection to the world of medicine.
This technology, said Hammond, allows for the identification of specific DNA markers in an advanced microfluidic device. urther,
or medicine necessary to monitor or treat patients. Efforts to study and combat highly infectious diseases,
such as in medical diagnostics for example. Their results are published now in Nature Communications. 3d structures in materials
according to Jonathan Schneck, M d.,Ph d.,a professor of pathology, medicine and oncology at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine's Institute for Cell Engineering."
the National Institute of General Medical sciences (grant number GM 07309), the National Cancer Institute (grant numbers CA 43460, CA 62924, CA 09243 and CA108835), the Troper Wojcicki
Winner of the 2015 Lindros Award for translational medicine, Kjeld Janssen is pushing the boundaries of the emerging lab-on-a-chip technology July 7th, 201 0
They can also be used in medical and military industries. Ultrasonic bath has been used in the finishing process of the fabrics.
including medicine, electronics and energy. Discovered only 11 years ago, graphene is one of the strongest materials in the world, highly conductive, flexible, and transparent.
it is expected that an important step is taken in the development of nanotechnology in the field of medicine,
and power conditioning for defense, medical and commercial applications. But it has been challenging to find a single dielectric material able to maximize permittivity, breakdown strength, energy density and energy extraction efficiency.
and even medicine. Now a team of Northwestern University researchers has found a way to print three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes.
The fast and efficient method could open up new opportunities for using graphene printed scaffolds regenerative engineering and other electronic or medical applications.
so it could be used for biodegradable sensors and medical implants. Shah said the biocompatible elastomer
Now, two groups of scientists are reporting for the first time that two new nucleotides can do the same thing--raising the possibility that entirely new proteins could be created for medical uses.
published in the journal Science Translational Medicine("Detection of pathological biomarkers in human clinical samples via amplifying genetic switches
New materials for energy application, new concepts for medical surfaces, new surface materials for tribological systems and nano safety and nano bio.
a process common to delivery of many species in biology and medicine-you could go to the doctor
"These type of things have never been done before, from both a fundamental neuroscience and medical perspective,
and shortening the time to market of medicines in order to fully exploit them before patents run out.
"He said that makes it ideal for medical applications because the microrobotic tentacles can't damage tissues or even blood vessels.
or chemical environment to provide unique functionality in a wide range of applications from energy to medicine.
"says lead investigator Subroto Chatterjee, Ph d.,a professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine and a metabolism expert at its Heart and Vascular Institute."
or proteins that could be targeted by drugs, eventually leading to new medicines to fight cancer r
and very much in its infancy when it comes to medical applications, Kim said. project like this,
is an opportunity to push both medicine and microrobotics into a new and exciting place.
In that study, published in a 2012 issue of Science Translational Medicine, microchips were implanted into seven elderly women,
said Robert L. Geahlen, Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Purdue. We were able to show the turn off of this kinase very rapidly alters the physical properties of the cell.
The phenomenon of RNAI is expected to find applications in medical treatments. RNAI is mediated by RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC),
"The simple, low-cost and compact nature of this method makes it particularly attractive for point-of-care applications in settings that lack sophisticated medical resources.
central laboratories equipped with large and expensive analysis systems that are operated by experienced medical technicians.
The work opens the door for scientists to manipulate such organisms to produce compounds useful as fuels or medicines."
and observe and study the biological and medical significance of RNA misregulation. Details will be published the week of July 20 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences("Quantification
"Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and professor of medicine, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering.
from environmental remediation to medical analysis. The polymers are synthesized at room temperature, and don need to be prepared specially to target specific compounds;
offering the example of a cheap testing kit for urine analysis of medical patients. The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,
and an expert in nanoengineering for health care and medical applications. hen you think about field deployment,
says study leader Bjrn Hgberg from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Karolinska Institutet.
which is a medical emergency potentially requiring surgical intervention, says Koch Institute research affiliate Giovanni Traverso,
a professor of medical science and engineering at Brown University who was not involved with this study.
#Technology helps personalized medicine, enabling epigenomic analysis with a mere 100 cells A new technology that will dramatically enhance investigations of epigenomes, the machinery that turns on and off genes and a very prominent field of study in diseases such as stem cell differentiation,
This epigenomic characterization potentially allows medical doctors to create personalized treatment of diseases, by understanding the state of a patient,
and medical skills was also extremely important, as many people suffered injuries from being hit by debris in flood waters.
These and similar findings have been dismissed by the modern medicine industry because of the lack of patentability.
Just as with chronic inflammation, modern medicine has accused the immune system as having gone awry and as the primary source of most problems associated with that process.
The world's poster child for corporate manipulation and deceitextreme bias at Wikipedia on homeopathic medicineguatemalan STD medical experiments were just one crime in a long history of medical-government collusion to use humans
But medical microbiologist Timothy Walsh of Cardiff University, UK, urges caution because the drug has been tested against only a small number of lab strains.
On top of brainwave monitoring, Jaguar land rover is also assessing how a vehicle could monitor the well-being of the driver using a medical-grade sensor embedded in the seat of a JAGUAR XJ.
Through a clinical collaboration between Caltech, Keck Medicine of USC and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, the now 34-year-old Sorto is the first person in the world to have a neural
The Surgery The surgical team at Keck Medicine of USC performed the unprecedented neuroprosthetic implant in a five-hour surgery on April 17, 2013.
We have created a unique environment that can seamlessly bring together rehabilitation, medicine, and science as exemplified in this study.
developed at the Applied Physics laboratory at Johns Hopkins. Sorto was recruited to the trial by collaborators at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center and at Keck Medicine of USC.
Keck Medicine of USC team members include Brian Lee, Christianne Heck, Sandra Oviedo, Paul Kim,
or record neural activity. hese type of things have never been done before, from both a fundamental neuroscience and medical perspective,
A summary of the research appears June 17 in Science Translational Medicine. s a neurosurgeon, I in agony when I taking out a tumor.
says Dr. Juan carlos Altamirano Vallejo, medical director of the Medical and Surgical Center for Retina.
"says Daniel Weiss at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, who works on lung regeneration."
relieve pain and perhaps help male infertility and other medical conditions. The curious healing effect has been known for decades researchers have been investigating its use in eye injuries
A better understanding of how red light affects cells should make it easier to expand its medical uses,
nor is there evidence at this time that medical information such as claims, test results, or diagnostic codes were targeted
vaccine or medicine,"says Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director-general for health systems and innovation at the World health organization,
The technology hasn't received regulatory approval for doctors to use it in making medical decisions.
"Challenges to greater adoption of computer-modeling include a lack of data for some medical conditions,
"Or will this change how we practice medicine?""He said he hopes advanced technology can fill some gaps,
"This camera module has been designed specifically for medical applications with stringent biocompatibility, sterilization and electrical requirements,"said Shingo Ishii, group leader of the medical business development division at Fujikura.
He adds that the module very small footprint and power efficiency are critical features for such applications,
and optical micro-assemblies designed specifically for small CMOS-based medical camera systems. The company also showed off the innovation at last week Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) event
but the firm has been touting the medical sector as one that is ripe for growth. Tehzeeb Gunja, one of its senior marketing and business development managers, said of the Fujikura/POC collaboration:"
We anticipate that our terahertz device will have applications in personal security, scanning and various medical sectors.
but a new number published today in the medical journal The Lancet may be even more significant.
which develops medical technology for use in patients s
#Researchers develop new Algorithm to empower Robots to Learn like Humans New algorithms enable robots to learn motor tasks through trial and error, like humans.
/Johns Hopkins Medicine. First developed in the early 1990s for imaging the retina, OCT operates on the same echolocation principle used by bats and ultrasound scanners,
The research was published in Science Translational Medicine (doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed. 3010611. For more information, visit www. hopkinsmedicine. org.
"The results of a pilot clinical study, carried out at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine under the supervision of professor Peter Grant,
"Multispectral imaging is used for many types of medical research and not only produces an image but also provides data about the specific colors within that image.
A 2014 study published in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation found that amputees using the device reported increased mobility,
But in an extremely promising medical advance, scientists are now saying that an experimental Ebola vaccine with 100 percent effectiveness has been developed.
A paper published today in The british medical journal Lancet reports that the vaccine which has been tested in Guinea
The medical authorities carrying out the trial have been using what known as a ing vaccination strategyto test the vaccine efficacy.
but were dismissed ultimately by the medical teams involved for practical reasons. Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust, a major supporter of the research, commented on this in an interview with the New york times saying the fact that the trial still achieved positive results in spite of various constraints and limitations,
so you don forget medicine at the store, to connect to your digital wallet and stop you before you overspend.
but with increasing advances in technology, science and medicine, perhaps it isn so unrealistic to think that someday mobile apps like this one will help bridge the gap between patients who lost the capacity to speak,
which develops medical technology for use in patients. Olafsson said his body continues to adapt to his prosthetic limb more each day
"said Varda Shalev, a medical informatics expert and active care primary physician. She is an external consultant to the Tel aviv-based Nuvo Group.
Noninvasive approaches to move and ultimately expel kidney stones from the body provide medical capabilities needed by NASA and other international space agencies.
the medical experts of a UK healthcare provider expressed a sincere appreciation of the work carried out by researchers,
particularly those that store vaccines and other medical products. Published in The Lancet. This study was funded by a gift from the Abundance Foundation (Stephen Kahn.
"says Dr. Juan carlos Altamirano Vallejo, medical director of the Medical and Surgical Center for Retina."
Their work, published online July 8 by the journal Science Translational Medicine, could pave the way for gene therapy in people with hearing loss caused by genetic mutations."
precision medicine treatment injected into their ears to restore hearing, "Holt says. Sound transducers: How TMC works Holt's team showed in 2013 that TMC1
Publishing the results in Science Translational Medicine, the team observed no serious side effects. Studies on mice and rats showed the drug could also be used to prolong survival in particularly severe pneumonia,
while previous research published last year in Nature Medicine has shown this class of drugs could also be effective in treating tuberculosis.
Amgen, is to get approval from the FDA and the European Medicines Agency. The drug is administered once every two weeks for up to 18 months
and deliver medicine to wherever it's most needed in the body. They're also relatively easy to track as they move through the system,
and interfere with them as they deliver their medicine.""These tiny particles are camouflaged kind of, I would say,
"The device was created by medical company, Second sight, and works through an electronic device that's implanted onto a patient's retina-the layer of light-sensing cells at the back of the eye.
#Scientists are figuring out how to make medicinal marijuana, without the high Scientists have figured out how to separate the pain relieving qualities of medical marijuana from its psychological side-effects in an effort to offer people a new high-free option.
"There has been a great deal of medical interest in understanding the molecular mechanisms at work in THC, so that the beneficial effects can be harnessed without the side-effects,"one of the team,
The company lists medical monitoring, sportswear clothing and even connected cars as potential use cases for its technology-bend
"Non-destructive manipulation of cells over time and in the correct environment is a key enabling technology highly needed within the biology and medical research communities,
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