North Carolina State University is providing up to $300,000 in seed money to four emerging technologies from the university that are now steering toward commercialization. Two of the projects receiving up to $75,000 each from the university’s Innovation Fund have healthcare applications. One focuses on a new vaccine to prevent Salmonella and the other is […]
Nanofibers are still finding their place in medicine. But Miles Wright readily counts the areas where his company’s technology could improve healthcare. Surgery. Wound care. Regenerative medicine. And that’s just the start. Raleigh, North Carolina startup Xanofi has not developed nanofibers for any of these applications. Wright, Xanofi’s CEO, has no plans to. What the […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration took its first step into the uncertain world of nanotechnology regulation by releasing draft guidance on how regulatory bodies should handle the tiny tech. Nanotechnology is the science of manipulating materials at the atomic or molecular level, at scales around 80 times tinier than the diameter of a red […]
Nanomedicine offers the promise of new drugs with targeted delivery and fewer side effects, but the companies developing such medicines encounter this challenge: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has no official definition of nanotechnology. In fact, much of the guidance that could help nanomedicine companies remains unwritten so far. All of the products that […]
Synthetic biology combines science and engineering methodologies to create new biological systems and functions not found in the natural environment. The emerging trend of applying the principles of genetic engineering to modify existing life forms or generate new ones has fomented heated international debates. People on both sides of the issue make very strong arguments to support their positions.
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At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Nanotechnology-engineered thin film coatings used in industrial applications are now being developed for medical uses through two Charlotte, North Carolina-area startup companies. BioMedFlex and OrthoMedFlex have each raised just under $50,000 in separate fundraising rounds targeting $5 million, according to securities filings. George Barr, president of Industrial Hard Carbon, is listed in the filings as […]
New vaccines incorporating nanotechnology are the goals for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which infused North Carolina-based Liquidia Technologies with a $10 million equity investment.
The next generation of malaria vaccines could be designed with nanotechnology methods developed by Liquidia Technologies. The Research Triangle Park-based company has reached a collaboration agreement with the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which has a $168 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a new malaria vaccine.
Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Boston hospital that last year performed the nation's first face transplant, now plans to offer hand transplants under an experimental program announced Monday, the Boston Globe reports.
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Let there be light! Or more specifically: Let there be synchrotron light! The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota’s recent cooperation agreement with Canadian Light Source (CLS) could provide local researchers and medical device and pharmaceutical firms access to next-generation imaging technology. Under the deal, Minnesota companies and institutions can use Canada’s national synchrotron research facility at […]
In Iron Man 2, our hero Tony Stark manages to save the world from the military-industrial complex and create an entirely new chemical element, but still suffers through the inconvenient and mildly painful tribulation of numerous pin-prick blood tests a day. Draper Laboratories, right down the street from Stark’s alma mater, MIT, has a solution. […]
Seagate Technology giveth (sort of). Seagate Technologies taketh (definitely). Bolstered by better than expected revenue, the disc driver maker has reversed plans to convert a state-of-the-art nanotech facility in Edina into the Minnesota Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology. Seagate, based in Scotts Valley, California, has major operations in the Twin Cities. The company originally planned to […]
The award marks the sixth patent the Ann Arbor-based company has received for its nanoemulsion technology, in which ultra-small particles of one liquid are suspended in a second liquid that won't mix with the first.
The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron has struck a strategic partnership with Cleveland orthopedic device testing and design firm Orthopaedic Research Laboratories to discover, develop and commercialize novel technologies and solutions that advance orthopedic care.