Science and Enterprise

Category: Joint ventures/collaborations

  • Nanoscale Nuclear Testing Capability Developed

    Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, University of California at Berkeley, and Los Alamos National Lab have devised a testing technique for irradiated materials at nanoscale that offers insights into the full-scale properties of those materials. The team’s findings appear in the current online issue of the journal Nature Materials (paid subscription required). The technique…

  • White House Unveils Manufacturing Partnership, Investments

      At Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh today, President Obama launched an initiative that aims to invest in emerging technologies leading to high quality manufacturing jobs. The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) is expected to combine resources from industry, universities, and the federal government to encourage progress in information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, and other advancements…

  • Genomic Software Offers Faster Interpretations for Diagnosis

    Software developed by scientists from University of Utah in Salt Lake City and Omicia Inc. in Emeryville, California, improves the speed and ability to identify and interpret genetic variations for the diagnosis of disease. The researchers that developed the software describe their findings in the current issue of the journal Genome Research. The team led…

  • North Africa, Middle East Entrepreneurial Programs Unveiled

    Two new programs aimed at spurring innovation based on science and technology in North Africa, Middle East, and South Asia were  unveiled at a kick-off meeting in Rabat, Morocco last week. The Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) in Arlington, Virginia manages the programs, with funding from the U.S. Department of State. One of new…

  • Pain Killer with Built-in Abuse Deterrence Gets FDA Clearance

    A prescription pain killing drug developed by Pfizer Inc. in New York and Acura Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Palatine, Illinois has received marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Oxecta, an opioid analgesic tablet made from oxycodone hydrochloride (HCl), contains ingredients developed by Acura Pharmaceuticals to deter tampering that leads to misuse or abuse…

  • Computer Model Tests for Car Noise During Design Stage

    A researcher at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden has built a computer simulation model to help car designers locate potential sources of unwanted car noise. Matti Rantatalo (pictured right) developed the model as part of his doctoral studies at Luleå, in the university’s Center for Automotive System Technologies and Testing (CASTT), and with help…

  • Imaging Technology Used to Improve Grain Yields

    Scientists at University of Adelaide in Australia are developing a technology based on computer imaging to better understand growth patterns of cereal grains and improve their yields under various conditions. The project involves a collaboration among computer scientists and plant physiologists at the university, with a German computer-imaging company. The team aims to develop technology…

  • Platform, Tools Developed to Network Smart Objects

    Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim have devised a platform and tools to connect home and office objects with built-in intelligence. The Infrastructure for Integrated Services (ISIS) offers a common framework for developing and distributing applications in what the researchers call the Internet of Things. ISIS addresses a need…

  • Audion, Sanofi to Partner on Hearing Loss Therapies

    The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi and biotechnology company Audion Therapeutics in Amsterdam have agreed to develop potential treatments for hearing loss through through regenerative medicine and biologics. The collaboration will build on technology developed by Audion’s co-founder Albert Edge at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston. Audion originally licensed Edge’s technology from Mass…

  • Netherlands to Open Bio-Solar Research, Production Center

    The Netherlands begins on 17 June its BioSolar Cells research program to strengthen the science behind the sustainable production of bio-energy and food through photosynthesis. Also on 17 June, Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands opens its Algae Production and Research Centre (AlgaePARC), a production-scale lab to raise the output from algae bio-reactors…