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ASU bioengineering research produces design for new device to help detect diseases quickly and at lower costs Arizona State University researchers have demonstrated a way to dramatically simplify testing patients for infectious diseases and unhealthy protein levels.New testing instrumentation developed by Antonia Garcia and John Schneider promises to make the procedure less costly and produce results in less time.Current testing is slow and expensive because of the complications of working...

Researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed microscopic polymer beads that can deliver an antioxidant enzyme made naturally by the body into the heart.Injecting the enzyme-containing particles into rats' hearts after a simulated heart attack reduced the number of dying cells and resulted in improved heart function days later.Michael Davis, PhD, is presenting the results Sunday evening at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Orlando....

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 20 /PRNewswire/ -- XSpray Microparticles AB, a life science technology company, today announced the launch of its new GMP production facility in Malmo, Sweden. In addition to offering particle development and characterization services, XSpray can now provide customers with high quality drug particles and powders for use in their clinical studies. XSpray's RightSize Particle Manufacturing Technology, a ground-breaking solution for pharmaceutical particle...

STOCKHOLM, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Xspray Microparticles AB, the Swedish life science technology company, has developed a cutting-edge solution for pharmaceutical particle production based on supercritical fluid technology. The Company's RightSize Particle Manufacturing Technology overcomes many of the drawbacks of traditional micronization and is well suited to demanding applications. As well as offering all the advantages of earlier supercritical fluid technologies it also provides...

New advances result in accurate ID of smaller particles using hologramsCell phones have already revolutionized the way people around the world communicate and do business. Thanks to advances being made at UCLA, they are about to do the same thing for medicine.In the lab of UCLA electrical engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan, a prototype cell phone has been constructed that is capable of monitoring the condition of HIV and malaria patients, as well as testing water quality in undeveloped areas...

Remote controlled with a magnetic field, aggregates of plastic particles on a microchip function like stirrers and pumpsSometimes physicists resort to tried and trusted model-making tricks. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, the University of Stuttgart and the Colorado School of Mines have constructed micromachines using the same trick that model makers use to get ships into a bottle where the masts and rigging of the sailing ship are not erected until it is in the...