Smart insulin nanostructures pass feasibility test, UT study reports
HOUSTON -- (Sept. 18, 2007) -- Biomedical engineers at The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston have announced pre-clinical test results in the September issue of the International Journal of Nanomedicine demonstrating the feasibility of a smart particle insulin rel...PRA International Speaking Event: Beyond Global Feasibility
An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Realistic Development Timelines RALEIGH, N.C., March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- PRA International, a leading Clinical Research Organization, announces its Senior Vice President of Scientific and Medical Affairs, Kent Thoelke, will host a webinar on optimizing ...CryoLife Receives CE Mark Approval for BioFoam(R) Hemostatic Technology
...er 2008, CryoLife received conditional approval from the FDA to conduct the feasibility phase of the company's BioFoam IDE submission for liver parenchymal sealing. The feasibility phase will enroll a total of 20 subjects at two investigational sites in th...Bionovo Presents Positive Results from Phase 1B Trial of Bezielle for Metastatic Breast Cancer
...ology at Ohio State University. The primary objective of the study was to identify the maximum tolerated dose of Bezielle and to determine the safety, feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the Company's novel, oral, anticancer therapy. A total of twenty-seven women with metastatic breast cancer were enrolled t...DURECT Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2009 Financial
...T. "It is also noteworthy that we signed four new feasibility projects in the quarter with pharmaceutical compan... seven days from a single application. -- feasibility Projects. During the second quarter, we signed four new feasibility projects with pharmaceutical and biotechnology com...Synthetic biology -- opportunities and risks
...ace them with others in order to create artificial life forms. These methods are based on the advances in gene technology, in particular the technical feasibility of increasingly rapidly decoding genetic information and re-synthesising it. In the medium term, the potential applications of synthetic biology range...University of Michigan Health System Experts Available to Comment on Health Care Reform Efforts
...er for Value-Based Insurance Design. She can discuss how to measure and improve the value of U.S. health care spending, with a particular focus on the feasibility and effectiveness of linking medical coverage to value. She is leading the evaluation of a U-M trial of targeted value-based co-payment reductions for...Sunshine Heart Announces IDE Approval To Begin C-Pulse U.S. Clinical Feasibility Trial
SYDNEY, Australia, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunshine Heart (ASX: SHC), a global medical device company focused on innovative heart assist technologies, today announced that it has received conditional approval of an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administrat...Micromet Shows Feasibility of Subcutaneous Delivery of BiTE Antibody in Preclinical Primate Study
BETHESDA, Md., April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Micromet, Inc. (Nasdaq: MITI ), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, proprietary antibodies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation and autoimmune diseases, presented data at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer...Torax Medical Launches Pivotal Clinical Study of New Acid Reflux Treatment
...st approach to treating GERD is to augment the body's existing sphincter so that it can function normally. Excellent clinical results were achieved in feasibility trials with the LINX System and we expect these positive clinical outcomes to continue in this Pivotal Trial". To learn more about the study and...Worldwide Cost Estimate for Alzheimer's and Dementia Is US$315.4 Billion
...developed regions. * Pilot studies conducted by the 10/66 Group in 26 centers in Latin America, Africa, India, Russia and China demonstrated the feasibility and validity of a simple, one stage dementia diagnosis for use in population-based research, known as the "10/66 Dementia diagnosis." "Dementia ...AirLife On-board Oxygen Concentrator
Description:...eutic oxygen device that would be permitted to be both carried on and used on US commercial airlines for passengers with prescriptions for oxygen. The feasibility of patients use of their own equipment on board is under debate currently in the Federal Registers Notice of Proposed Rule Making, FAA-2004-18596....Scientists demonstrate feasibility of preventing malaria parasite from becoming sexually mature
Researchers have demonstrated the possibility of preventing the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, which is responsible for more than a million malaria deaths a year, from becoming sexually mature. The discovery could have implications for controlling the spread of drug resistance...Penn-Wistar team gains insight into HIV vaccine failure
...orts new evidence refuting a popular hypothesis about the highly publicized failure in 2007 of the Merck STEP HIV vaccine study that cast doubt on the feasibility of HIV-1 vaccines. The findings were published on-line July 20 in Nature Medicine . The phase II STEP vaccine trial was stopped after an interim a...Researchers achieve major breakthrough with water desalination system
...yet very expensive stationary pilot plants are constructed to determine the feasibility of using available water as a source for a large-scale desalination plant. ... pilot plants, often from scratch, in order to evaluate and demonstrate the feasibility of water production from different source waters. "We believe system...Sustainable bioenergy project has global launch
... "Global Sustainable Bioenergy: feasibility and Implementation Paths" is a response to confusion and uncertainty on whether the world should look to bioenergy --biofuels, heat and electricity --...Beetle shell inspires brilliant white paper
...sign protocols could be utilised already with tailor-made mineral designs such as Imerys' CarboFlexTM range. The company is now planning to assess the feasibility of taking these design protocols to the next level in order to produce beetle-inspired ultra-white coatings on a large scale. Meanwhile, the Unive...Brain-computer interface, developed at Brown, begins new clinical trial
...own University. The study has been approved by the MGH Institutional Review Board to begin recruiting participants. The trial extends prior safety and feasibility research of the BrainGate Neural Interface System, which consists of an implanted baby aspirin-size brain sensor that reads brain signals and computer...Next-generation software system for flood warning and risk analysis to be developed
...nty and risk of an ensemble forecasts and (3) provide Application Programming Interface (API) Web services with interactive flood risk mapping. The feasibility and commercial promise of the software has already been demonstrated successfully in the Upper Severn Catchment in the UK and subsequently in the Uppe...Combined stem cell-gene therapy approach cures human genetic disease in vitro
...issue where the disease is manifested and bring it to clinic." Although several studies have demonstrated the efficacy of the approach in mice, its feasibility in humans had not been established. The Salk study offers the first proof that this technology can work in human cells. Belmonte's team, working w...New therapy substitutes missing protein in those with muscular dystrophy
... very close relative of dystrophin that was modified with a cell-penetrating tag, called TAT. The study is the first to establish the efficacy and feasibility of the TAT-utrophin-based protein as a viable therapy for the treatment of muscular dystrophy as well as cardiac muscle diseases caused by loss of dys...UC Davis bioengineer receives Hartwell Foundation grant to address skull fusion disorder of infants
...at can be placed along the sutures as a substitute for the fragmented skull bones. His goal for the three-year term of the grant is to demonstrate the feasibility of this approach in laboratory rats. "What we want to do is make a scaffold a material that the bone-forming cells can enter that supplies them w...Botaneco signs feasibility agreement with Croda to develop specialty crop oil formulation
Program will focus on evaluation of Botaneco's technology to add functionality to Echium oil TSX symbol: SBS CALGARY, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Botaneco, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SemBioSys Genetics Inc., today announced that it ha...Smart insulin nanostructures pass feasibility test, UT study reports
HOUSTON -- (Sept. 18, 2007) -- Biomedical engineers at The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston have announced pre-clinical test results in the September issue of the International Journal of Nanomedicine demonstrating the feasibility of a smart particle insulin rel...Cardiogenesis Corporation Makes Pre-IDE Submission for PHOENIX Combination Delivery System
... to the Food and Drug Administration to initiate a feasibility trial for its PHOENIX System in patients with refr...ission is an important step towards initiating the feasibility trial in the United States." The company pl...y any additional information required to begin the feasibility trial. About Cardiogenesis Corporation Ca...GenVec Expands Contract Supporting Malaria Vaccine Program
...e a collaboration that began in 2004 and will initially support preclinical feasibility studies of novel adenovirus-based vaccines. Based on the results of the feasibility studies, GenVec, MVI, and USAID will contemplate preclinical and clinical d...Genetically engineered bacteria compute the route
...ate that computing in living cells is feasible, opening the door to a number of applications. The second-generation bacterial computers illustrate the feasibility of extending the approach to other computationally challenging math problems. A research team made up of four faculty members and 15 undergraduate ...Heart disease: Research off the beating patch
...n a way that not only allows them to survive, but to spontaneously beat in a coordinated fashion," says Lancaster. In addition to demonstrating the feasibility of using a synthetic mesh as a means to deliver living heart cells into a diseased heart, the group has already shown that the patch improves left ven...Mouse Dopaminergic Neuron Differentiation Kit, 2nd Generation from R&D Systems
Description:...urce of replacement DA neurons in Parkinsons disease. Two groups have reported methods for generating DA neurons from ES cells, thus demonstrating the feasibility of identifying conditions required for functional DA neuron differentiation of ES cells. Experimental models established from these studies might fac...