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Commentary: Manufacturing the Health Care Venture Crisis

(GSA.gov)

Rahm Emanuel, the current mayor Chicago and former chief of staff to President Obama, once famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) has gone Emanuel one better, using highly selected bits and pieces from an industry survey to predict an imminent . . . → Read More: Commentary: Manufacturing the Health Care Venture Crisis

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Science Business is taking a break for the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., as well as the day after Thanksgiving (tomorrow). We’ll be back to regular posting on Monday, 28 November. For those in the U.S., enjoy your holiday.

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Copper Compound Nanoparticles Advance Battery Electrodes

(National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

Materials scientists at Stanford University in California have developed a new, longer-lasting battery electrode with crystalline nanoparticles of a copper compound. Their discovery, with implications for solar and wind energy storage on the power grid, is described this week in the journal Nature Communications (paid subscription required).

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Contract Awarded for Atlantic Salmon Genome Sequencing

Atlantic salmon (U.S. Fish and Wildife Service)

An international business and scientific consortium from salmon-producing countries has awarded a contract for the second phase of sequencing and analysis of the Atlantic salmon genome to the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland. The International Cooperation to Sequence the Atlantic Salmon Genome (ICSASG) . . . → Read More: Contract Awarded for Atlantic Salmon Genome Sequencing

Liquid-Based Hydrogen Storage Material Developed

Shih-Yuan Liu (Univ. of Oregon)

Chemists at University of Oregon in Eugene have developed a liquid storage material for hydrogen that advances the prospect for hydrogen as a fuel that can replace gasoline. The Oregon researchers describe their findings online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (paid subscription required).

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University Awarded U.S. Patent for HPV Discovery

L-to-R: Robert Rose, Richard Reichman, and William Bonnez (Univ. of Rochester)

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to University of Rochester in New York for research conducted on the human papillomavirus virus (HPV). The research by Rochester virologists Robert Rose, Richard Reichman, and William Bonnez led to development of . . . → Read More: University Awarded U.S. Patent for HPV Discovery

U.S. Patent Filed for Vein Regeneration Technology

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Pall Corporation in Port Washington, New York has applied for a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a disposable, closed cell collection and seeding system developed for vein regeneration procedures. The system, according to Pall Corp., offers a method for isolating and collecting a patient’s mononuclear cells, which . . . → Read More: U.S. Patent Filed for Vein Regeneration Technology

Genomics Testing Offered to Guide Cancer Treatments

(Wikimedia Commons)

Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri now provides a test for mutations in 28 genes associated with cancer to help determine the best treatment for cancer patients. Genes in the test are expected to cover a variety of different tumors, including those from blood, lymph, lung, brain, bladder, kidney, skin, stomach, . . . → Read More: Genomics Testing Offered to Guide Cancer Treatments

MedImmune, Univ. of Michigan to Partner on Biologics

University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor and MedImmune in Gaithersburg, Maryland have agreed to collaborate on research leading to new biologic therapies for a range of diseases. MedImmune is the biologics division of the global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

Biologics are treatments or therapies developed through biological processes, such as genes or cellular products, . . . → Read More: MedImmune, Univ. of Michigan to Partner on Biologics

Process Developed for Delivering Appetite Control Hormone

(Genome.gov)

Researchers at Syracuse University in New York and Murdoch University in Australia have devised a method for binding an appetite-suppressing hormone to vitamin B12, a key step needed for delivering the hormone in gum or tablet form. Their process is described online in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (paid subscription required).

Syracuse . . . → Read More: Process Developed for Delivering Appetite Control Hormone