Immunotherapy based on T cells is the vanguard of cancer treatments. Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have shown that similar approaches using T cells could be applied for treating injuries of the central nervous system (CNS). They reported their findings in Nature on Sept. 4, 2024.
Seoul, South Korea-based Neudive Inc. is advancing a game-like digital therapeutic called Buddy-in as a software solution for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder to practice and improve social skills.
Litigation between companies in the med-tech space often revolves around patents, but the ongoing series of lawsuits between Philips Respironics Inc. and Soclean Inc. are directed toward the interaction between CPAP machines and CPAP cleaning systems.
Since the publication of The Hallmarks of Aging in 2013, aging research has exploded. The field now has more than 300,000 articles on the biological signals of the effect of time on the body. What would Marty McFly, the legendary character from the Back to the Future saga who traveled with his DeLorean time machine from the ‘80s to the ‘50s, think if he visited 2024 and saw laboratories experimenting with techniques to turn back the biological clocks of cells or increase the lifespan of rejuvenated mice?
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, continue their development of a neuroprosthetic which comprises a system of implanted or wearable sensors.
The U.S. FDA recently granted Medtronic plc approval for its deep brain stimulation (DBS) system to be used to treat Parkinson’s disease or essential tremor while a patient is asleep, under general anesthesia. The approval gives patients another option for DBS therapy which can transform their quality of life, Amaza Reitmeier, vice president and general manager for Medtronic brain modulation, told BioWorld in an interview.
A new brain-computer interface (BCI) developed at UC Davis Health is able to translate brain signals into speech with up to 97% accuracy – the most accurate system of its kind.
An implanted deep brain stimulator that calibrates its electrical pulses based on changes in brain activity reduced patients’ most bothersome symptoms of Parkinson’s disease 50%, a small feasibility study published in Nature Medicine found.
Otsuka Precision Health Inc. and Click Therapeutics Inc. pondered the signature question of cognitive behavioral therapy when setting the market approach for their jointly developed prescription digital therapeutic for major depressive disorder, Rejoyn.
In what represents the first patenting to emerge in the assignee’s name, additional protection is being sought for Rapidpulse Inc.’s aspiration system, which delivers high-frequency pulsed vacuum forces to increase the efficiency of aspiration thrombectomy and remove thrombus from the neurovasculature.