UC Davis is partner in new $125 million federal bioenergy research center
.... "The DOE JBEI will be organized like a biotech startup company, withvery focused research objectives, and a structure to enable it toquickly pursue promising scientific and technological developments,"said Keasling. "In addition, the DOE JBEI will seek collaborationswith companies that have relevant scie...Nutrients might prevent hearing loss, new animal study suggests
...e free radical activity Miller has launched a U-M startup company OtoMedicine that is developing the vitamin-and-magnesium formulation. "These agents have been used for many years, but not for hearing loss. We know theyre safe, so that opens the door to push ahead with clinical trials with confidence wer...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- February 14, 2007
...new types of antibiotics and there is at least one startup company focusing specifically on that topic, the article notes. ARTICLE # 5 EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, Feb. 19, 2007 "Protein Factory Reveals Its Secrets: Researchers picture and poke the ribosome to learn how it works" This story will ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...nal Laboratory has confirmed what Alpharetta, Ga., startup company C3 International founder Mark Deininger suspected. His companys nano-film coating is like none other and could have dozens of industrial applications. Through a High Temperature Materials Laboratory user project, a team of researchers perform...Silver bullet: UGA researchers use laser, nanotechnology to rapidly detect viruses
...e Georgia BioBusiness Center, an UGA incubator for startup bio-science companies. Presently, viruses are first diagnosed with methods that detect the antibodies a person produces in response to an infection. Tripp explained that these tests are prone to false positives because a person can still have antib...Male contraception: One door opens, another closes
...ng-term male contraceptive is being developed by a startup company, supported by a small U.S. National Institutes of Health grant. Due to popular demand, the trial has been expanded to four U.S. cities and can accept 90 participants. Similar approaches have been shown to work in men in studies in China and I...'Failed' experiment yields a biocontrol agent that doesn't trigger antibiotic resistance
...ibiotic resistance. The discovery also led to the startup of a promising new biotechnology firm that has already brought Wisconsin a dozen new, high-paying, highly skilled jobs. Filutowicz is a professor of bacteriology in the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. His i...New wood-plastic composites to boost industry, help use waste products
...ctures extruders for bio-based composites. A local startup company in Corvallis, Sustainable Industries Group, LLC, is also supporting the research. And the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute has provided support to get the new equipment installed, which also has the capability to produce nan...Northwestern receives Gates Foundation grant for medical diagnostics
...ere the team will develop new devices in a biotech startup environment. To minimize the cost and time in bringing products to market, the platforms will build on proven technologies and components from both commercial and academic sources. During the development phase, Abbott and Inverness will provide tec...Three at MIT conceive cell-shaped building
...y, currently a software engineer at Silicon Valley startup Sharpcast, Inc., designed and programmed "iQuarium," an interactive media installation on fish fluid dynamics, when she was at MIT. Kulper characterized the collaboration with his Chinese design teammates as a "highly gratifying, very hybridized pr...Carnegie Mellon, Pitt receive $15 million from NSF to found center to improve quality of life
...s. "We also expect this work to be a catalyst for startup companies that will bring jobs to the region and further strengthen Pittsburgh's reputation as a center for development and commercialization of health-related technology," Cohon said. "The creation of a scientific and engineering knowledge base tha...Prion find points way to test for human 'mad cow' disease
...rcially available, Soto and UTMB recently formed a startup company, dubbed "Amprion." "All our effort so far has been to prove the scientific concepts, so we're building this company to go into issues of development, scalability and practicality," Soto said. "We are hopeful that development of this technol...ORNL, protein discovery researchers collaborate on high-profile paper
...xecutive officer of Protein Discovery, a Knoxville startup company. The ability to perform these functions with high efficiency and precision has applications for medical diagnostics and as a discovery tool. The technique, called photoelectrophoretic localization and transport, or PELT, involves shining a hi...UCF researchers to develop water purification system for hurricane relief
...r disasters. The professors were awarded a $10,000 startup grant from NSF this month as part of a rapid response program designed to support research that can directly benefit those affected by Katrina. The researchers will submit their research results to NSF in six months. The agency is also encouraging th...Improved cancer treatments aim of new biology research program
... $850,000 per year for five years, plus a $300,000 startup grant, for a total of $4.6 million. The Institute of Biocomplexity and Informatics is being supported by the University of Calgary, in collaboration with the University of Alberta. Additional support is being sought from the Natural Sciences and En...Indiana University scientists' research success puts Indiana in new stem cell business
... founders arrange financing. The primary source of startup capital came from an "angel" investor who does not wish to be identified, Yoder said....USF spin-out company Saneron CCEL wins federal award for cell therapy
...ron CCEL Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology R&D startup company; focused on neurological cell therapy for the early intervention and treatment of several devastating or deadly diseases, which currently lack adequate treatment options. Saneron CCEL, located at the USF Center for Entrepreneurship in Tampa,...New system reduces risk of burns during interventional X-rays
...uffalo researchers, working with an Amherst, N.Y., startup company called Esensors have developed a unique, real-time patient dose-tracking system, which lets physicians know when the accumulated radiation dose is approaching a dangerous threshold. The system is designed to be used either as a retrofi...