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Luxturna was recently approved for the treatment of a blindness-causing RPE65 gene mutation. With two injections in each eye, patients diagnosed with a hereditary retinal dystrophy would be able to experience improved vi...

A new male contraceptive is set to begin testing next year. Beginning in April, about 420 men will begin rubbing a hormonal gel onto their shoulders every morning, with the goal of lowering sperm counts below what's need...

Product Announcement Ironwood Electronics recently introduced a new BGA socket addressing high performance requirements for Multi Chip Memory Package - CBT-BGA-6073. The contactor is a stamped spring pin with 31 gram act...

News Small bacterial infections that may go unnoticed and which the body easily clears without treatment, such as occurs during mild food poisoning, nevertheless can start a chain of events that leads to chronic inflamma...

News Just a little holiday message for you ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

News In hospitals in North and South America, nurses are hacking medical equipment to improve patient care. Using off-the-shelf materials, they've created prescription bottles for the visually impaired, pipe systems to i...

Product Announcement The miniature MSR 147WD Data Logger which has been designed to receive pre-calibrated humidity and temperature sensors. It is small (35 x 17 x 57mm) and lightweight (27g), making this unobtrusive log...

Ladies, looks like we might have another thing to worry about -- well, at least for those of us who play soccer. New, unpublished research, presented in November at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference in Washi...

News The software includes ultrasound technology that helps those with congenial heart defects ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Cardiovascular

News The toast baker is one of the products that the team has chosen to move forward with to create and get on the market ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

Product Announcement The AMC241 is a 36x36 Cross Bar Switch (CBS) in the AMC form factor which allows any of the 20 lanes from the backplane to be routed to the front ... Contributed Author: Vada Tech

News A group of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University is investigating this exciting property of DNA molecules ... Contributed Author: Lindsay Brownell, Wyss Institu...

News As part of the study, the patients were asked to rate the severity of 12 common symptoms, such as fatigue and nausea, at least once a day ... Contributed Author: University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Scienc...

(Salk Institute) Salk scientists discover how to generate functioning cardiac cells from stem cells in single step.

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Published in The Journal of Neuroscience, the findings demonstrate how using EEGs to identify changes in brain wave patterns over time can predict which post-inju...

(Baylor College of Medicine) For breast cancer, carrying protein CD44s, instead of CD44v, has a survival advantage. Researchers have now discovered a mechanism by which cells can regulate switching between the two protei...

(Bar-Ilan University) Neurons are the basic computational building blocks that compose our brain. According to the neuronal computational scheme used for over a century, each neuron functions as a centralized excitable e...

(Case Western Reserve University) Fish sense water motion the same way humans sense sound, according to new research out of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Researchers discovered a gene also found in ...

(Elsevier) In order to assess the accuracy and reliability of a test that can be added to the clinician's toolbox to diagnose asthma -- fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) concentration -- researchers gathered and ana...

(University of Nottingham) A new study of antibiotic use on a large sample of UK dairy farms has found that 25% of the farms used 50% of the total antibiotics administered. Following the research, the Nottingham Vet Scho...

(City College of New York) Nucleosides are fundamental building blocks of genetic material which makes them attractive for a number of biologically relevant applications and as potential pharmaceuticals. At The City Coll...

(Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center) Researchers at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics and the Center for Membrane Protein Research ...