Asthma affects 8 percent of the U.S. population. Severe asthma—the symptoms of which are difficult to manage despite high doses of medicines, like corticosteroids—accounts for most healthcare costs due to its complexity to treat. New therapies are needed to eliminate symptoms of this life-threatening disease. Ben Gaston, the Billie Lou Wood Professor of Pediatrics at… Read more »
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Patents awarded to six IU innovations
Six Indiana University-led technologies and methods have recently received patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. These innovations include an antiviral drug treatment for HPV, as well as methods for activating T cells in vitro, processing speech, enhancing the study of the gut microbial ecosystem, analyzing lipoproteins through the use of mass spectrometry and… Read more »