Science and Enterprise

Category: Joint ventures/collaborations

  • State Grant Awarded for Solar Energy Storage R&D

    SunPower Corp. in San Jose, California has received a $1.8 million grant from the California Public Utilities Commission to research photovoltaic (PV) energy storage for large commercial applications. The grant, awarded from the the California Solar Initiative Research, Development, Deployment and Demonstration program, will establish a pilot program to demonstrate the integration of energy storage…

  • Genomic Map Developed for Domesticated Turkey

    Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and colleagues from universities, research institutes, industry, and other agencies have sequenced the majority of the genome of Meleagris gallopavo, the domesticated turkey, creating the first-ever turkey genome map. The nearly complete map could help growers to more efficiently produce bigger, meatier turkeys. The research is reported…

  • Making Corn-based Plastics More Heat Tolerant

    Petroleum is not only the main source of transportation fuel but also a key raw material in making plastics. A team from Lapol LLC, of Santa Barbara, California and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of USDA are working on a solution to make corn-based plastics a better alternative than plastics made from oil. An important…

  • Health Informatics Group to Build International Presence

    The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in Bethesda, Maryland, has started a subsidiary called the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) to encourage collaborative initiatives on health informatics. GHIP aims to form grassroots networks of health informatics advocates and professionals to build health informatics capacity in low-resource settings, primarily in South America, Africa, and Asia. According…

  • Collaboration Finds Cryptography Flaw, Creates Countermeasure

    Two European universities, one research institute, and a computer security company developed a technique to exploit imperfections in quantum cryptography systems, then created a countermeasure for it. Quantum cryptography allows the distribution of a cryptographic key across an optical network, then applies the laws of quantum physics to guarantee its secrecy. The technique uses the…

  • University, Oil Company Partner on Infrastructure Corrosion

    University of Oklahoma (OU) in Norman and the oil company ConocoPhillips will establish a new program to conduct research on biocorrosion affecting petroleum pipelines, storage facilities, tankers, and refineries. The new Biocorrosion Center will be part of OU’s Institute for Energy and Environment. Researchers in the program will explore scientific issues to better understand and…

  • Aileron, Roche to Partner on Peptide Drug Delivery

    Aileron Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts announced today a partnership with the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche to develop and commercialize a new class of drugs called stapled peptide therapeutics. Roche and Aileron will develop drug candidates with this technology for up to five targets in Roche’s fields of expertise: oncology, virology, inflammation, metabolism, and central nervous…

  • Biotech Researchers Publish Parkinson’s Gene Silencing Data

    Researchers from Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, collaborating with colleagues at research institutes, reported effective silencing of a gene associated with Parkinson’s Disease. The pre-clinical findings were published 11 August in the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS). The researchers silenced the alpha-synuclein gene using an RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic administered directly to the…

  • Symposium Reports on Open Source Drug Discovery

    A day-long symposium today at the American Chemical Society national meeting in Boston, Massachusetts reports on efforts to lift the secrecy often surrounding drug discovery. This new approach known as open-source drug discovery connects an online worldwide community that collaborates on discovering and developing new drugs. This combination of movement and work program has the…

  • Arizona, Texas Industry Research Consortiums in Partnership

    The Sensor, Signal and Information Processing center and consortium — known as SenSIP — at Arizona State University in Tempe has earned Industry/University Collaborative Research Center designation from National Science Foundation (NSF). SenSIP also formed a partnership with a similar consortium of four leading Texas research universities. SenSIP’s work involves research on technologies used in…