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Nokia 1100 entry-level cell phone (Nokia Corp.) Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge recommend designing products for small entrepreneurial businesses as a strategy for success in large emerging markets, such as India and China. Graduate student Jesse Austin-Breneman and engineering professor Maria Yang describe their findings in a paper delivered last . . . → Read More: Design for Microenterprise Helps Target Emerging Markets  One comment - (Comments are closed)  Business conditions, New products  agriculture, Asia, biofuels, economics, energy, engineering, entrepreneurs, university (James. J. Caras, National Science Foundation) A new challenge on InnoCentive asks for a crowd-sourced solution for determining an individual’s age from a small sample of that person’s DNA. The competition has a a prize purse of $25,000 and a deadline of 7 October 2013 for submissions (free registration required). InnoCentive in Waltham, . . . → Read More: Challenge Seeks Technique to Estimate Age from DNA Samples Comments are closed Finance biomedical, biotechnology, challenge, genomics, life sciences, medical device James Marcin (University of California, Davis) A study of rural emergency room cases in northern California shows physician consultations with teleconferencing result in higher quality of care for seriously ill and injured children. The findings of pediatrician James Marcin and colleagues at University of California in Davis were published yesterday online in the journal . . . → Read More: Telemedicine Found to Improve Rural Pediatric Emergency Care 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Regulations biomedical, engineering, health care, medical device, software, university Blood-clot surgical robot (Joe Howell, Vanderbilt University) Engineers and surgeons at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee built a prototype of a surgical device to safely remove blood clots from the brain, a risky and difficult procedure. A team led by Vanderbilt neurosurgery professor Kyle Weaver and mechanical engineering professor Robert Webster describe the system . . . → Read More: Prototype Robotic Brain Blood-Clot Surgery Device Developed Comments are closed New products biomedical, computer science, engineering, life sciences, medical device, physical sciences, robotics, university The pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is starting a venture capital fund to invest in companies making therapeutic devices and medications harnessing the body’s electrical signaling system. The fund, called Action Potential Venture Capital (APVC) Ltd. will have $50 million, with its first investment in a California company developing a device to regulate nerve signals for treating . . . → Read More: GSK Starts Venture Fund for Nerve-Signal Devices, Medicines Comments are closed Finance biomedical, biotechnology, entrepreneurs, equity, investment, life sciences, medical device, pharmaceuticals, venture capital (Yale School of Medicine/Wikimedia Commons) A clinical trial testing alternative connections for external powering of implanted heart pumps is enrolling patients at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, one site of the study. Bartley Griffith, a cardiac surgeon and professor of surgery is leading the research for the university, which is funded . . . → Read More: Trial Testing External Power Connections for Heart Pumps Comments are closed New products, Regulations biomedical, clinical trials, energy, engineering, heart disease, life sciences, medical device, university (National Institutes of Health) Medical researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York found local pharmacies can serve as venues to offer rapid HIV screening and get medical care for those who test positive. The team from Einstein College and its affiliated Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx . . . → Read More: Community Pharmacies Found Helpful in Encouraging HIV Tests One comment - (Comments are closed) Regulations biomedical, health care, HIV, medical device, university Nick Morozovsky and SkySweeper (University of California, San Diego) An engineer at University of California in San Diego created a prototype device that propels itself along utility lines and can locate problems that need repair. The device, called SkySweeper and built by graduate student Nick Morozovsky, will be presented at the International Conference . . . → Read More: Inexpensive Robotic Power Line Inspection Device Developed Comments are closed New products challenge, computer science, engineering, physical sciences, robotics, university ArduSat illustration (NanoSatisfi) Radiation sensors made by Libelium, a developer of wireless sensor hardware in Zaragoza, Spain are part of the payload contained in CubeSat satellites launched this past weekend on a cargo mission by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The sensors are part of the first two ArduSat satellites made by open-platform . . . → Read More: Radiation Sensors Launched in Open-Source Satellites Comments are closed Joint ventures/collaborations Asia, engineering, Europe, Japan, physical sciences, physics Influenza ultrastructure illustration (Dan Higgins, CDC) The global pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave its approval to ship the company’s vaccine covering four potential virus strains for the 2013-2014 influenza season. GSK says this year will be the first that vaccines will be available to protect against more . . . → Read More: FDA Approves Shipping of GSK Four-Strain Flu Vaccine |
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