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By Alan, on October 26th, 2011% Paraglider for the disabled, developed by University of Utah's Ergonomics and Safety Program (Univ. of Utah/Technology Venture Development)
The University of Utah’s Ergonomics and Safety Program is partnering with an organization for paragliding and hang-gliding by the disabled to develop a paraglider that paraplegics can fly on their own. The program, part of . . . → Read More: Utah Engineering Program Develops Paraglider for Disabled
By Alan, on October 26th, 2011% Update, 26 October 2011: A similar center of excellence will be established at University of Maryland in College Park, also funded by a $1 million FDA grant.
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. will establish a Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI), with initial funding from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The . . . → Read More: FDA Grant Funds Georgetown University Regulatory Center [Updated]
By Alan, on October 26th, 2011% Entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel has started Breakout Labs, a funding source to help independent scientists and early-stage companies develop their most radical ideas. Thiel announced Breakout Labs last night at a meeting of Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students in California.
Thiel aims to provide financing for visionaries whose ideas are too ahead of . . . → Read More: Fund to Back Independent, Early Stage Science Companies
By Alan, on October 26th, 2011% The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has formed a partnership with pharmaceutical companies and BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) to share intellectual property and expertise to develop treatments for neglected tropical diseases, malaria, and tuberculosis. The partnership includes international and national research and public health agencies, as well as research universities and non-government organizations.
. . . → Read More: Private-Public Consortium to Share IP on Tropical Diseases
By Alan, on October 25th, 2011% Salmonella typhimurium, in red, invading cultured human cells. (Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH)
A collaboration of academic, industry, and government researchers have harnessed genomic sequencing to more precisely identify food pathogens. Their findings appeared online earlier this month in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology (paid subscription required).
To identify the source of . . . → Read More: Genomic Sequencing Precisely Targets Food Pathogens
By Alan, on October 25th, 2011% (Agricultural Research Service/USDA)
Undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have genetically engineered yeast cells used in making bread to produce more beta carotene. The project that the students call VitaYeast is the university’s entry in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) contest held 5-7 November at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Yeast . . . → Read More: Students Engineer Bread Yeast to Yield More Nutrients
By Alan, on October 25th, 2011% (WomensHealth.gov)
Researchers at University of Vigo in Spain have found that taking blood pressure medicines at bed time appears to reduce risk of heart disease as well as keep blood pressure under control. They describe their research online this week in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (paid subscription required).
Hypertension . . . → Read More: Blood Pressure Meds at Bed Time Reduce Heart Disease Risk
By Alan, on October 25th, 2011% In its third-quarter financial report released today, the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG said it would cut some 2,000 jobs in Switzerland and the U.S., but add 700 jobs in China and India. The cuts were announced at the same time the company said it recorded gains in third quarter sales of 12 percent and . . . → Read More: Novartis to Cut Jobs in U.S., Switzerland; Add Jobs in Asia
By Alan, on October 24th, 2011% Stretchable, transparent sensory skin material (Steve Fyffe/Stanford University)
Stanford University chemical engineers have developed a stretchable, transparent skin-like sensor that can be stretched to more than twice its original length and return to its original shape. The material — that can sense pressure from a firm pinch to thousands of pounds — is . . . → Read More: Stretchable Sensory Material Created with Carbon Nanotubes
By Alan, on October 24th, 2011% (Genome.gov)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital — both in Boston — have launched a new research project to scan tumor tissue from adult cancer patients for hundreds of gene mutations linked to cancer. The program, called Profile, aims to speed the development of cancer treatments that target the genetic weaknesses . . . → Read More: Dana-Farber, Brigham and Women’s Establish Genomic Database
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