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5/7/12
| News
One
exhale and a new device from researchers at Stony Brook University in
New York could screen for anything from diabetes to lung cancer. Based
on a sensor chip built from electrospun nanowires that can detect minute
amounts of chemical compounds, the device has yet to reach clinical
trials. But its inventors anticipate the device to someday cost only
$20.
May 7 | News
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to automate the process of finding and recording information from neurons in the living brain. The researchers have shown that a robotic arm guided by a cell-detecting computer algorithm can identify and record from neurons in the living mouse brain with better accuracy and speed than a human experimenter.
May 4 | News
Over the past several decades, scientists have faced challenges in developing new antibiotics even as bacteria have become increasingly resistant to existing drugs. One strategy that might combat such resistance would be to overwhelm bacterial defenses by using highly targeted nanoparticles to deliver large doses of existing antibiotics. In a step toward that goal, researchers have developed a nanoparticle designed to evade the immune system and home in on infection sites, then unleash a focused antibiotic attack.
9 hours ago | News
‘Tractor beams’ of light that pull objects towards them are no longer science fiction. Haifeng Wang at the A*STAR Data Storage Institute and co-workers have now demonstrated how a tractor beam can in fact be realized on a small scale.
17 hours ago | News
Health officials are testing 35 babies for tuberculosis after a person with an active case of the life-threatening disease visited neonatal-intensive care units at two Northern California hospitals.Few details have been released about the contagious individual, who has since been placed in...
19 hours ago | News
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday that David Simmons, the president and general manager of its emerging markets and established products divisions, is leaving the company to become president and CEO of Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc.Simmons has worked at Pfizer for 15 years, and he...
22 hours ago | News
A new collaboration between Oxford University
and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology will use the latest genetic
techniques to
investigate organic remains that some have claimed belong to the 'Yeti'
and
other 'lost' hominid species.
May 23 | News
Sentencing is set for an upstate New York woman who admits she faked having cancer to con donors into paying for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon.Jessica Vega isn't likely to do prison time, but court officials say she'll have to repay $13,368 to her victims. She's been in Orange County Jail...
May 22 | News
A Rockville company is recalling all packages of a food product because of potential salmonella contamination.Indonesianfoodmart.com announced the recall of Tempeh Starter Yeast and Super Starter Yeast on Tuesday. The products were distributed nationwide and abroad. The product was imported...
May 22 | News
An ex-office manager has pleaded guilty in what prosecutors say was a multimillion dollar health care fraud in which a cancer clinic gave patients diluted chemotherapy drugs and used old syringes on multiple people.Dr. Meera Sachdeva, Brittany McCoskey and Monica Weeks were indicted last August...
May 22 | News
Biomedical engineers at University of California, Davis have
developed a microfluidic chip to test for latent tuberculosis. They hope
the
test will be cheaper, faster, and more reliable than current testing for
the
disease.
May 22 | News
Chelsea Therapeutics International Ltd. said Tuesday it may have to make changes to a clinical trial of its drug candidate Northera, potentially delaying its approval.The company's stock lost 15 cents, or 7.4 percent, to $1.94 in midday trading after falling as low as $1.87, its lowest level...
May 22 | News
A biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world.
