The University of Minnesota will soon be evaluating Chinese medical technologies for their business potential in the Chinese, U.S. and other markets.
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Human cloning: Scientists worry Minnesota ban could squelch other research
Before Jonathan Slack, a professor and director of the University of Minnesota’s Stem Cell Institute, came to the school in 2007, he had to contend with bewildered colleagues and friends in the U.K.
“Why are you going to the U.S.?” they asked. “They don’t allow stem cell research there.”
Slack knew better — he was aware that while there were limits on federal funds for human embryonic stem cell research at the time, there was no legal impediment to engage in that activity.
Minnesota startup aims to treat clogged arteries with ultrasound
International Cardio Corp. is licensing a noninvasive technology from the University of Minnesota that uses high-intensity focused ultrasound energy to treat clogged arteries.
Company president Donald Knight has a brother who nearly died during an angioplasty procedure, according to the company.
“Angioplasty is an effective procedure, but it carries risks,” Knight said in prepared remarks. “My goal is to develop a noninvasive alternative to angioplasty.”
UMinn prof takes aim at the device and drug industries
Dr. Carl Elliott takes a dim view of the influence medical device and pharmaceutical makers exert over the medical profession.
UMinn, University Enterprise Laboratories near deal for medical device incubator
The University of Minnesota and University Enterprise Laboratories are close to a deal that will create a medical device incubator at the UEL facility in St. Paul, Minn., according to sources and documents obtained by MedCity News.
The 1,600-square-foot space, tentatively called MDC Launch Pad, will house early-stage companies created by graduates of the university’s one-year Medical Device Center Innovation Fellowship Program.
UMinn researchers use bone marrow stem cells to repair skin
University of Minnesota researchers have successfully repaired damaged skin tissue using stem cells gleaned from bone marrow.
In a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the school’s Stem Cell Institute said the therapy can help patients who suffer from recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a painful genetic skin disorder that causes skin to blister and scrape off at the slightest friction or trauma.
UMinn researchers grow functional rat lungs
By Thomas Lee
Researchers at the Masonic Cancer Center and medical school in at the University of Minnesota have grown breathing lungs from a rat in the laboratory, the second time in two years the university has achieved a potentially significant breakthrough in organ science.