Clinical Research

Clinical studies and the instrumentation behind them, from trial design to the platforms generating the data.

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Nanopore Diagnostics Raises $600000 to Develop the iNDxer

American startup Nanopore Diagnostics has raised $600000 to develop The iNDxer, a device to detect bacterial infections. The money, provided by the Missouri Technology Corporation...

Biomedicine

Fertility Could Be Controlled with a Switch

A team of German scientists is developing a new device to control fertility. The Bimek SLV is a valve that is fitted to the sperm ducts and...

Clinical Research
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Human Faeces Transplanted to Treat Obesity

Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital will conduct a clinical trial for weight loss based on human faeces. Pills filled with excrements from healthy people will...

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VirScan Detects All Past and Present Viral Infections

Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a new method to detect a person’s viral history. VirScan tests for more than 1000...

Biomedicine

Brain MRI Reveals a Potential Biomarker for Depression

A team of scientists from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) have recently published a study that correlates depression risk with a...

Biomedicine

Illumina Accelerates Four Selected Startups

Illumina has announced the winners of the third round of its accelerator program. The genomics company will invest in four biotech startups that work on nutrition, synthetic biology, the skin microbiome...

Bioinformatics

Switching off 20000 Genes to Identify the Essential Ones

Scientists from the University of Toronto’s Donnelly Centre have identified the minimum set of human genes necessary for survival. Using the CRISPR technology, the researchers switched...

Bioengineering

Functional Liver Cells Cultured in the Lab

An international team of researchers led by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a technique to grow functional hepatocytes in vitro. The cultured cells will allow...

Bioengineering