Last month, hackers gained remote access to a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida. Once in the system, they increased the level of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, in the city’s water supply from around 100 parts per million to a dangerously high level of 11,100 parts per million. Thankfully, a worker foiled… Read More
A Mission for Making Good Medicine The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF), the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), and biotech therapeutics startup Anviron recently announced a partnership to commercialize a novel treatment with promising efficacy against pancreatic cancer tumors. According to the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center, the total number of… Read More
A technology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, lies at the heart of a startup company creating next-generation medical devices for flexible endoscopy. EndoTheia harnesses the power of intelligently micro-machined materials to create highly dexterous manipulators, adding flexibility that increases therapeutic yields in complex endoscopic procedures. The company’s devices supplement widely used and commercially available… Read More
