FDA Clears The DPL (Deep Penetrating Light) Therapy System For Over-the-Counter - Home Use

LED Technologies, LLC announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared their DPL™ Therapy System for the relaxation of muscles and relief of muscle spasms, temporary relief of minor muscle and joint aches, pains and stiffness; temporary relief of minor pain and stiffness associated with arthritis; and to temporarily increase local blood [...]

Storage Of Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Makes Sense - International Tissue Engineering Research Association

Over 70 diseases can already be successfully treated with hematopoietic (blood) stem cells and around 15 diseases are treated with non-hematopoietic stem cells. Considering ongoing experiments and clinical trials, the number of therapeutic applications is expected to increase in the future. These are [...]

First-Ever Multi-Input ‘Plug-And-Play’ Synthetic RNA Device Constructed By Caltech Engineers

Engineers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a "plug-and-play" synthetic RNA device–a sort of eminently customizable biological computer–that is capable of taking in and responding to more than one biological or environmental signal at a time.

Tags: biochemical signals, biological computer, california institute of technology, caltech, cancer therapy, cellular [...]

MIT Paves Way To ‘Artificial Nose’ - Engineers Mass-Produce Smell Receptors In Lab

MIT biological engineers have found a way to mass-produce smell receptors in the laboratory, an advance that paves the way for “artificial noses” to be created and used in a variety of settings.
The work could also allow scientists to unlock the mystery of how the sense of smell can recognize a seemingly infinite range of [...]

Tuberculosis - Results On Efficacy Of Medical Acoustics’ Lung Flute® To Be Presented At European Respiratory Society Congress

Medical Acoustics LLC, a commercial-stage medical device company which employs acoustic technologies for diagnostic and therapeutic medical applications, today announced that the tuberculosis (TB) study of its innovative and easy to use pulmonary device, the Lung Flute®, conducted by Dr. Akira Fujita, and Dr. Kengo Murata at Tokyo Metropolitan Fuchu Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, has been [...]