Novartis announces landmark EU approval for one-time gene therapy Luxturna® to restore vision in people with rare inherited retinal disease By: Novartis News Novartis announced today that the European Commission (EC) approved Luxturna, a one-time gene therapy for the treatment of patients with vision loss due to a genetic mutation in both [..]
FDA Grants Accelerated Approval to Genentech’s Venclexta® for Acute Myeloid Leukemia By: Genentech News Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to Venclexta® (venetoclax), in combination with a hypomethylating agent (azacitidine or decitabine), or [..]
Study Opens Route to Ultra-Low-Power Microchips By: David L. Chandler | MIT News Office A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically less power than existing versions. The approach could also overcome some of the inherent [..]
FDA Approves Novartis Drug Promacta® for First-line SAA |Breakthrough Therapy Designation By: Novartis News Basel, November 16, 2018 – Novartis announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the label for Promacta®(eltrombopag) to include first-line treatment for adults and pediatric patients two years and older with SAA in [..]
Viruses Against Bacteria: First TED Talk on Phage Therapy by Alexander Belcredi of PhagoMed Vienna, 16 November 2018: Today the first TED Talk on phages and phage therapy went live on TED.com. In the talk, PhagoMed’s Co-Founder and CEO Alexander Belcredi recounts how he became fascinated by phages, the history [..]
Liquid Fuel That Can Store The Sun’s Energy For Up to 18 Years Originally Published at www.sciencealert.com No matter how abundant or renewable, solar power has a thorn in its side. There is still no cheap and efficient long-term storage for the energy that it generates. The solar industry has [..]
‘Bionic Mushrooms’ Fuse Nanotech, Bacteria and Fungi By: Stevens Institute of Technology. In their latest feat of engineering, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have taken an ordinary white button mushroom from a grocery store and made it bionic, supercharging it with 3D-printed clusters of cyanobacteria that generate electricity and swirls [..]
Graphene Takes a Step Towards Renewable Fuel By: Linköping University Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, are working to develop a method to convert water and carbon dioxide to the renewable energy of the future, using the energy from the sun and graphene applied to the surface of cubic silicon carbide. They [..]
Detecting E. coli Strains Using Molecular Electronics By: University of California – Davis News Finding a fast and inexpensive way to detect specific strains of bacteria and viruses is critical to food safety, water quality, environmental protection and human health. However, current methods for detecting illness-causing strains of bacteria such [..]
TWIICE One Exoskeleton is a Step Towards Independence By: Anne-Muriel Brouet The new version of the TWIICE walking-assistance system is not only lighter, more comfortable and more powerful, but patients can also put it on and use it themselves – giving them greater independence. It has been tested by handcycling champion [..]
Chemical Synthesis Could Produce More Potent Antibiotics By: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Using a novel type of chemical reaction, MIT researchers have shown that they can modify antibiotics in a way that could potentially make them more effective against drug-resistant infections. By chemically linking the antibiotic vancomycin to [..]
Impact of Artificial Intelligent Robots on Human Life By: B.Sree Vethya | TOC August finalist Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are general terms that imply the use of a computer to model and replicate the intelligent behavior. Research in AI focuses on the development and analysis of algorithms that learn [..]
Robotics Process Automation (RPA) Used in Health Care By: Atchaya Nataraj| TOC August finalist Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is used to automate processes and can also deliver a wealth of data in a continuous feedback loop that can be used for performance improvement and optimization. RPA systems can collect data on [..]
Artificial Intelligence in The Future By: Aysha Naurein| TOC August finalist Artificial intelligence (AI) or hybrid intelligence has definitely taken the world by storm. From the smart phones we use today that can detect speech and identify faces to the human-like robots, we have come a long way. The idea of artificial [..]
Nanobots – A Gift of Technology and Science By: Devasena Umai. R | TOC August finalist How would it be if you have nanobots administered to you, just like how you get vaccinated, and they circulate in your bodies all the time and monitor all that is happening in your body? [..]
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