Walgreens Won’t Send Tests to Theranos Lab in California
February 2, 2024 8:58 am | by Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor | News | CommentsWalgreens will no longer have its tests for customers performed at healthcare startup Theranos’s Newark, Calif., laboratory after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported violations of a number of clinical policies.
UN Health Chief: Zika Virus is 'Spreading Explosively'
January 28, 2024 10:36 am | by Jamey Keaten and Maria Cheng, Associated Press | News | CommentsDeclaring that the Zika virus is "spreading explosively," chief of the World Health Organization announced that it will hold an emergency meeting of independent experts on Monday to decide if the virus outbreak should be declared an international health emergency.
Food Safety Consortium to Tackle Foodborne Illness
January 27, 2024 9:47 am | by Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor | News | CommentsBio-Rad Laboratories Inc., a life science research and clinical diagnostic products manufacturer has joined IBM Research and Mars Inc. in the Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain. The consortium is harnessing the power of genomics and informatics to study microbiomes in food to help prevent contamination and foodborne illness at any step in the food supply chain.
Drug Industry to Fight Superbugs Together with Governments
January 22, 2024 11:14 am | by Linda A. Johnson, AP Business Writer | News | CommentsDozens of makers of medicines and diagnostic tests have joined together in an unprecedented effort to tackle "superbugs" - infections that increasingly don't respond to drugs and threaten millions of people in countries rich and poor.
BIO Changes Its Name
January 4, 2024 3:27 pm | by Biotechnology Innovation Organization | News | CommentsTo better reflect the remarkable progress and groundbreaking innovations its members achieve in healing, fueling and feeding the world, BIO – the world's largest biotechnology trade association – is changing its name to Biotechnology Innovation Organization. The organization will continue to use the shortened, “BIO” name.
The Power of Proteins
December 15, 2023 9:55 am | by UNC | News | CommentsWhen Scott Vu started working on a computer science research project as a teenager, he didn’t realize it would lead him down a path to earning a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and launching a company designed to help the biotechnology industry operate more efficiently.
Bioscience Bulletin: Vitamin D and MS, Verily’s New Mission, and Why We’re Quick to Blame
December 15, 2023 8:56 am | by Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor | News | CommentsHere are our top stories this week!
Scaling Up Synthetic-biology Innovation
December 11, 2023 10:38 am | by Rob Matheson, MIT News Office | News | CommentsHeadquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gen9 has developed a method for synthesizing DNA on silicon chips, which significantly cuts costs and accelerates the creation and testing of genes. Commercially available since 2013, the platform is now being used by dozens of scientists and commercial firms worldwide.
50 Years Later, Consortium Looks for Freeze-drying Overhaul
November 19, 2023 8:56 am | by Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor | Articles | CommentsLyophilization, also known as freeze-drying, is a critical technology for the food industry, pharmaceuticals and biotech. However, the process, which removes water from products at low temperatures and low pressure, is expensive, time-consuming and has remained unchanged for the last 50 years.
Primordial Goo Used to Improve Implants
November 16, 2023 12:08 pm | by CSIRO Australia | News | CommentsAustralian researchers have uncovered a way to use these molecules to assist with medical treatments.
Biogen to Slash 11 Percent of Its Workforce
October 30, 2023 8:43 am | by Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor | News | CommentsBiotech giant Biogen announced last week that it will cut 11 percent of its workforce in hopes of saving approximately $250 million a year.
Radiotherapeutic Bandage Could Treat Skin Cancer
October 28, 2023 9:38 am | by Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor | News | CommentsResearch behind a new radiotherapeutic bandage that could potentially treat squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) cancer was presented Wednesday, at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Expo in Orlando.
Lab-on-a-Chip Cuts Costs of Sophisticated Lab Tests
September 15, 2024 8:56 am | by Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor | News | CommentsEngineers at Rutgers University have designed a three-inch long, and one-inch wide device that can replace benchtop assays and perform complex analyses using 90 percent less sample fluid than a traditional test.
Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Takes On Growing Role in Pathogen Detection
August 13, 2024 9:07 am | by Chris Linthwaite | Articles | CommentsPathogen detection is an emerging application where targeted, next-generation sequencing (NGS) holds great potential. Not only can it quickly identify all species in a given sample and guide targeted treatments, it can also be useful to track the evolution of microorganisms, allowing public health officials to develop proactive strategies to help them stay ahead of deadly outbreaks.
How New Biosensors Turn E. coli Into Something Valuable
August 6, 2024 8:47 am | by Harvard University | News | CommentsSuper-productive factories of the future could employ fleets of genetically engineered bacterial cells, such as common E. coli, to create valuable chemical commodities in an environmentally friendly way. By leveraging their natural metabolic processes, bacteria could be reprogrammed to convert readily available sources of natural energy into pharmaceuticals, plastics, and fuel products.
Researchers Create Smartphone-based Device that Reads Medical Diagnostic Tests Quickly and Accurately
July 28, 2024 11:34 am | by UCLA | News | CommentsA team of researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has developed a new mobile phone-based device that can read ELISA plates in the field with the same level of accuracy as the large machines normally found in clinical laboratories.
Software Turns Smartphones into Tools for Medical Research
July 28, 2024 10:38 am | by Brandon Bailey, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsSmartphone apps are the latest tools to emerge from the intersection of health care and Silicon Valley, where tech companies are also working on new ways of bringing patients and doctors together online, applying massive computing power to analyze DNA and even developing ingestible "smart" pills for detecting cancer.
‘Stem Cell Factories’ of the Future?
July 24, 2024 8:54 am | by Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor | News | CommentsScientists from the University of Nottingham in England have discovered a fully man-made substrate that could produce billions of human embryonic stem cells and move laboratory-based research to industrial-scale biomedicine. The research, published in the journal Advanced Materials, could lead the way for what the team calls ‘stem cell factories’ – the mass production of human pluripotent stem cells.
Scientists Develop Model for Robots with Bacterial Brains
July 20, 2024 8:19 am | by Virginia Tech | News | CommentsForget the Vulcan mind-meld of the Star Trek generation — as far as mind control techniques go, bacteria is the next frontier.
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Patterning Cells with the Flip of a Switch for Bioengineering Applications
July 10, 2024 3:00 pm | by Jennifer A. Segui, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer, COMSOL Inc. | Articles | CommentsSimulation aids researchers in understanding how unevenly-shaped cells rapidly form patterns under an applied electric field. This method, dielectrophoresis, is currently under development at Clemson University and Tokyo Electron for layer-by-layer material assembly.
Biomedical Breakthrough: Carbon Nanoparticles You Can Make at Home
June 18, 2024 11:45 am | by University of Illinois | News | CommentsResearchers have found an easy way to produce carbon nanoparticles that are small enough to evade the body's immune system, reflect light in the near-infrared range for easy detection, and carry payloads of pharmaceutical drugs to targeted tissues.
NPWT Market Value Will Exceed $1B by 2023
June 10, 2024 8:42 am | by Premdharan Meyyan, Medical Devices Analyst, GlobalData | Articles | CommentsThe adoption of these disposable NPWT devices will be primarily driven by their drastically reduced costs and expanding applications.
Portable Finger-probe Technology Could Help Success of Organ Donations
June 1, 2024 10:13 am | by UCLA | News | CommentsA portable, finger-probe device successfully measured liver function in brain dead adult organ donors, a finding that could change the way organs are assessed and save thousands of dollars per transplant, a UCLA study has found.
Researchers Test Mind-Controlled Robotic Prosthetic
June 1, 2024 8:30 am | by Ryan Bushey, Associate Editor | Videos | CommentsThis is part of an ongoing series focusing on the way robotics will impact our lives.
Global Advanced Wound Dressings Market Value Will Exceed $3.5 Billion by 2021
June 1, 2024 8:29 am | by Shashank Settipalli, Medical Devices Analyst, GlobalData | Articles | CommentsThe fastest growing advanced wound care segments will be hydrofibers and wound contact layers.
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