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Fungi samples (Agricultural Research Service/USDA) AgBiome LLC, an agricultural biotechnology company in Durham, North Carolina, gained $14.5 million in series A venture funding, the first round of financing after initial start-up. Polaris Partners, a venture capital company in Boston specializing in health care and technology startups, led the round, joined by ARCH Venture . . . → Read More: Agriculture Biotech Secures $14.5M in Early-Stage Financing  Comments are closed  Finance  agriculture, biotechnology, entrepreneurs, equity, genomics, investment, life sciences, university, venture capital LED device implanted in mouse brain (University of Illinois, Washington University in St. Louis) Biomedical engineers at University of Illinois in Champaign, with colleagues from Washington University in St. Louis, and other institutions in the U.S., Korea, and China developed tiny light-emitting diode (LED) devices that can be injected deep in the brain . . . → Read More: Injectable LEDs Developed to Study Brain Functions One comment - (Comments are closed) New products biomedical, computer science, engineering, life sciences, medical device, physical sciences, semiconductors, university Ben Kaufman, left, CEO of Quirky, and Beth Comstock, GE’s chief marketing officer, at the 10 April 2013 press conference announcing their companies’ collaboration (Quirky.com) General Electric Company and Quirky, a product development company using social media, are collaborating on developing GE patents into consumer products. The two companies also are partnering on . . . → Read More: GE to Crowdsource Product Development from Patent Portfolio Comments are closed Intellectual property, Joint ventures/collaborations computer science, engineering, licensing, manufacturing, patent, software (Photos8.com) A study by public health researchers at Brown University in Providence finds about one in five older citizens in the U.S. are taking medications considered potentially harmful to people in that age group. Danya Qato, a practicing pharmacist and doctoral candidate, with Amal Trivedi, a general internist and health services researcher at . . . → Read More: One in Five Seniors Found Taking High Risk Medications Alexandros Elefsiniotis, left, and Ulrich Schmid (Vienna University of Technology) Engineers from Vienna University of Technology in Austria and the commercial aircraft manufacturer EADS are collaborating on a new type of power supply for sensors to monitor a fuselage’s structural integrity. The team reports the first successful flight tests of the devices on . . . → Read More: Non-Battery Power Supply for Aircraft Sensors Flight Tested Comments are closed Joint ventures/collaborations energy, engineering, Europe, physical sciences, physics, university, water Pratt & Whitney’s Paul Adams speaking at the opening the Additive Manufacturing Center at University of Connecticut. (Ariel Dowski, University of Connecticut) Aircraft engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney and University of Connecticut are collaborating on a laboratory to research 3-D printing as a manufacturing technique at the university’s Storrs campus. The company, a . . . → Read More: UConn, Pratt & Whitney Open Additive Manufacturing Lab One comment - (Comments are closed) Joint ventures/collaborations computer science, engineering, grant, manufacturing, materials science, physical sciences, university John Noseworthy (A. Kotok) John Noseworthy, president and CEO of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, told an audience today that the U.S. government needs to fund scientific discovery to maintain U.S. health care quality and affordability, especially funding for National Institutes of Health (NIH). Noseworthy made his remarks in a speech at . . . → Read More: Mayo CEO: Government Needs to Fund Health Care Innovation 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Business conditions, Finance biomedical, computer science, health care, life sciences, medical device, NIH, pharmaceuticals, software André Platzer (Carnegie Mellon University) Computer scientsts at Carnegie Mellon University and Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) adapted new techniques for uncovering software bugs to the demanding requirements of robotic surgery. Carnegie Mellon’s André Platzer and APL’s Yanni Kouskoulas and colleagues will describe their work later this week at the Hybrid Systems: . . . → Read More: Software Testing Technique Devised for Surgical Robots One comment - (Comments are closed) New products biomedical, computer science, engineering, mathematics, medical device, robotics, software, university (America.gov) Anacor Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company in Palo Alto, California, will receive an award of nearly $18 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to discover drug candidates for tropical worm diseases and tuberculosis. Anacor says the Gates Foundation will also invest $5 million in the company’s common stock. Anacor develops small . . . → Read More: Gates Foundation Funds, Invests in Tropical Disease Research Comments are closed Finance biomedical, chemistry, equity, grant, investment, life sciences, pharmaceuticals Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (EPFL) University and industrial researchers in Switzerland and Denmark developed a new type of solar cell that in lab tests captures more light and generates more power than traditional silicon cells. The team from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, Neils Bohr Institute at University of . . . → Read More: Gallium Arsenide Nanowires Boost Solar Cell Efficiency Comments are closed New products cleantech, energy, engineering, Europe, materials science, nanotechnology, physical sciences, physics, semiconductors, university |
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