Dermatology biotech will use MIT professor's motion-sensing device to track itching

The Cambridge-based research and development unit of Leo Pharma, a Danish biotech that focuses on skin conditions, says it hopes to use a motion-sensing device invented by an MIT professor to track the scratching habits of patients. The collaboration, which was announced last week, could give researchers a more objective way of quantifying scratching during clinical trials of treatments for eczema and other conditions. Currently, patients in such studies are typically asked to rate their itching…
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