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Swisslog and Adept Technology Partner on Hospital Robots

Two companies specializing in healthcare robotics-Swisslog (North American offices in Denver, CO) and Adept Technology, Inc. (Pleasanton, [MORE]

Blood Glucose Reading from Exhaled Breath

A patent must prove to be novel, useful and not obvious, and it has been the usefulness of earlier [MORE]

Berkeley’s New Synthetic Biology Institute

Last month, a group of 33 researchers in engineering, biology and chemistry at UC-Berkeley, with funding and collaboration from [MORE]

Near Infrared Non-Invasive Glucose Monitor

The solution is as dumbfounding as the problem it addresses, diabetes.  Millions of diabetics know they have to closely [MORE]

Neuron Progenitor Cells Commercially Available

While the debate over human embryonic stem cells remains contentious, Lonza (Walkersville, MD) and California Stem Cell, Inc. (Irvine, [MORE]

Oncotype DX Soaring

Oncotype DX is a “companion diagnostic” for women with early stage breast cancer who might be treated with hormone [MORE]

Zapping Down Hypertension

With a procedure similar to angioplasty, clinical investigators in Melbourne, Australia, threaded a catheter from the groin to a [MORE]

Study: $20b in Costs from Medical Errors

Commissioned by the Society of Actuaries in Schaumberg, IL, and completed by consultants with Milliman in Seattle, the report used [MORE]

Illumina’s Distributed Genomics Network

This past summer, life sciences instrument maker Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, CA) announced its founding of a collaboration [MORE]

Smell Sensor for Cell Phones to Detect Airborne Toxins

Mimicking sensory cells in the human nose, Michael Sailor, professor of biochemistry at UC-San Diego, and engineers at a [MORE]

It’s Time to Take Your Pill

Medication adherence is a significant issue, especially for elders living alone and showing forgetfulness.  Vitality, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) has [MORE]

Dial-a-Doc

A California insurance brokerage is now offering small business employers a low cost alternative for [MORE]

Automated Image Analysis

Using specialized software that works somewhat like laser capture microdissection, Cambridge Research and Instrumentation (Woburn, MA) has an automated [MORE]

The ICEMan Cometh- MD-ICEMAN

Anyone who has visited a seriously sick person in the hospital, or witnessed a major surgery can envision the [MORE]