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• University Medical Devices (UMD) today announced the closure of its first round of seed funding.
• Funds are earmarked to advance UMD’s infrastructure, covering regulatory, medical, legal, manufacturing, packaging, sales and marketing.
• This funding round represents a major step toward UMD achieving profitability and sustainability, with a strong emphasis on bringing its first product – MicroWash – to market.
• MicroWash plays a pivotal role in addressing the challenges posed by the “tripledemic” – flu, COVID and RSV – as well as other respiratory infections.

• PHILADELPHIA, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SENA Health announces its partnership with Inspira Health to support patients receiving Healing at Home clinical services.
• The home-based services deliver advanced-level care to eligible Inspira Health patients in the comfort of their own homes.
• "Inspira Health sets itself apart as a truly innovative and forward-thinking organization in the region," said Dr. Anthony Wehbe, Founder and CEO of SENA Health.
• Inspira Health, in collaboration with SENA, has recently obtained the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver.

• But can they improve your mood, too?
• But the short answer, according to my team’s recently published research, is likely yes.
• The beneficial bacteria in probiotics become part of a community of other microscopic organisms living in your digestive system called the gut microbiome.

Studying mood in mice

• So how do you measure the mood of mice?
• We exposed them to poop from either stressed mice or normal mice by sprinkling soiled bedding in their enclosures.
• Microbes from the donor mice started to populate the gut microbiomes of the clean mice.
• Within a few weeks, the clean mice exposed to poop from stressed mice started to develop stress- and anxiety-like behavior, even though nothing else had changed.

Which bacteria affect mood?

• The results of our experiments led us back to our original question: Which bacteria can change your mood?
• In our analysis, we found that a group of bacteria called Lactobacillus was greatly reduced in the stressed mice.
• So we had to come up with a way to test how different strains affect anxious behavior.

• Instead of tackling this colossal task alone, we created a method that other microbiome scientists can also use to look at this group of bacteria as systematically as possible.
• To recreate the same experimental conditions for each species of microbe, we created a group of mice with only six species of bacteria in their microbiome, the bare minimum needed for normal and healthy development, which did not include Lactobacillus.

What’s next?

• We hope that our research will open avenues for other scientists to test different probiotics.
• In the meantime, give the Lactobacillus in your gut some love through a healthy, probiotics-rich diet.

Andrea Merchak has received funding from the National Institutes of Health (T32 NS115657, F31 AI174782).

• Brings industry-leading silicon IP from Flex Logix to IFS customers using Intel 18A in data center, edge, 5G, automotive and military-aerospace for many use-cases
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Flex Logix® Technologies, Inc ., the leading supplier of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP and reconfigurable DSP/AI solutions, announced today that it has joined the Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Accelerator IP Alliance.
• Through the alliance, Flex Logix will now have access to Intel's leading edge process design kits, like Intel 18A, to provide embedded FPGA and reconfigurable DSP/AI solutions for mutual customers.
• "Flex Logix is the leader in embedded FPGA IP with more than 20 licensed customers, more than 40 licensed chips and over 25 chips in silicon," said Geoff Tate, CEO of Flex Logix.
• We are proud to join the Intel Foundry Services Accelerator IP Alliance and look forward to delivering IP to our mutual customers, enabling the world's most advanced SoCs."