While vaccines and pharmaceutical treatments for COVID-19 might be far off, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Colorado are exploring a stopgap measure that could buy time for critically ill patients, according to a news release by the two institutions. In a clinical trial being planned for hospitals in Massachusetts and […]
MIT engineers have created a bionic ‘heart’
Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that engineers at the institute, along with others elsewhere, have collaborated to develop a bionic “heart” designed to offer a more realistic model for testing artificial valves and other devices. According to a report from MIT News, the device is a real biological heart which had its tough muscle tissue replaced […]
How LED light can break down ingestible medical devices
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an approach to break down ingestible medical devices in the gastrointestinal tract. Medical devices can be inserted in the gastrointestinal tract to treat, diagnose or monitor a number of GI disorders. However, the devices have to removed through endoscopic surgery once completed. The MIT researchers developed […]
GE Healthcare, Fujifilm team up with Harvard, MIT on new $50m biotech center
GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) and Fujifilm (TSE:4901) are entering into a partnership with Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to establish a new $50 million center for advanced biological manufacturing and engineering. Harvard, MIT, GE Healthcare and Fujifilm are slated to comprise the center’s board of directors, along with Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical […]
Study: Researchers develop ingestible capsule for insulin delivery
A team of researchers from MIT developed an ingestible, blueberry-sized capsule that can deliver insulin orally. In animal models, the capsule lowered blood sugar levels and performed comparably with the traditional route of insulin delivery – injections. The capsule features a small needle made of freeze-dried, compressed insulin. The needle is attached to a compressed spring, which […]
11 innovative medical devices you need to know from 2018
Call it digital health or mHealth or simply what it is — innovation. Last year we saw a lot of innovative wireless devices for diagnostics and treatment as research and development flourished. Many researchers have taken up the challenge of developing devices that are portable, small and convenient with ease-of-use that could revolutionize point-of-care diagnostics […]
Researchers design ingestible sensor for controlled drug release
Researchers from MIT, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Draper have developed a Bluetooth-controlled ingestible capsule that can sense the temperature of its environment and reside in the stomach for at least a month. The device, which was tested in an animal study and composed of 3D-printed parts, is powered by a small silver oxide battery and relays data to a […]
Glympse Bio raises $22M for disease-detecting sensors
Sensor-driven disease detection company Glympse Bio has raised $22 million in a Series A round to fund clinical trials for its technology. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company uses bioengineered activity sensors transported to the site of disease in patients to investigate biological targets such as proteases – a class of enzymes that drive critical disease pathways. Once a disease […]
Researchers use microparticles for targeted delivery of brain cancer therapy
A team of researchers from Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Mass. Institute of Technology and Mass. General Hospital demonstrated that localizing the delivery of NAMPT inhibitors can extend survival in a mouse model of glioma, according to a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists created a test to check for a mutation linked […]
Acorda’s CEO on failure, perseverance and the profound risks of drug development
Dr. Ron Cohen isn’t easily deterred. The physician-turned-executive has spent decades in the biotech industry and weathered a number of setbacks – he learned in his early years at the now-defunct Advanced Tissue Sciences that to succeed, he needed resilience. “I learned that it took hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions to develop […]
Researchers deliver cardiac stem cell therapy in preclinical trial using refillable patch
Researchers have developed a small device designed to halt the effects of a heart attack by delivering a stem cell therapy directly to damaged cardiac tissue. In a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National University of Ireland Galway and Trinity College Dublin reported that the […]
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