Science and Enterprise

Month: August 2010

  • Wireless Technology To Test Ford E-vehicle Batteries

    Ford Motor Company has built a monitoring system for lab and field tests of its electric vehicle batteries, using wireless Internet technology. The system collects real-time performance data with sensors on the vehicles’ lithium-ion batteries and transmits the data via Internet links to a secure server for access by Ford engineers. The company says new…

  • Medical Device Company Opening California Lab, Training Center

    Integra LifeSciences of Plainsboro, New Jersey announced the opening of its Center for Research, Education and Training in Irvine, California. The new facility will offer hands-on simulated surgical training, as well as a laboratory for research and development for Integra’s products. The center will hold its first session for spine surgeons on 21 September 2010.…

  • HHS Review Highlights Role of Business in Medical Countermeasures

    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released a report on the federal government’s system to produce medications, vaccines, equipment, and supplies needed to meet a health emergency. The report — Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasure Enterprise Review: Transforming the Enterprise to Meet Long Range National Needs — reviews the process and makes…

  • FDA Grants Orphan Status for Neuromuscular Drug

    Acceleron Pharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, today said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted ACE-031, its treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), with an orphan drug designation. DMD is a debilitating and fatal genetic disorder characterized by the progressive loss of muscle strength and function. The disease affects mainly boys…

  • University Licenses Research for Deer Repellents

    University of Minnesota Duluth agronomist and horticulturist Tom Levar has developed a way to protect plants from browsing by deer and mice with a natural hot pepper concentrate delivered to the roots of young plants, making them inedible. Repellex USA, a maker of pest repellents in Niles, Michigan has now licensed the technology. Levar developed…

  • 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…

  • Clearing the Air with Nanotech Concrete

    Germany’s Fraunhofer-Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME) in Munich, together with the German city of Fulda, and pavement manufacturer F. C. Nüdling Basaltwerke GmbH, also in Fulda, have tested a new paving material that reduces the amount of nitrogen oxide pollutants in the air. High levels of nitrogen oxide in urban areas are…

  • Montana State Licensing Biomedical Technologies

    Researchers at Montana State University in Bozeman have developed six new biomedical technologies available for licensing to interested companies and entrepreneurs. – An existing clinical drug discovered to act as a potent trigger of immune cells, but also shows promise in enhancing the effectiveness of vaccines, particularly those administered to the lungs. – An extract…

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  • Biofuels Plant Produces First Cellulosic Methanol

    A Range Fuels Inc. plant in Soperton, Georgia — the company’s first commercial biofuels plant — has produced its first cellulosic methanol, using non-food biomass as the feedstock. The first phase of the plant’s operations uses Range Fuels’ two-step thermo-chemical process, which combines heat, pressure, and steam to convert non-food feedstocks, such as woody biomass…