Month: November 2011
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USDA Funding Research to Aid Organic Dairy Farming
A $2.9 million grant will fund a team led by researchers at University of New Hampshire in Durham studying ways to help organic dairy farmers produce and market their milk. The four-year grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will also support researchers at universities…
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Canadian Corporate R&D Spending Drops for 5th Straight Year
Industry market research company Research Infosource in Toronto, Ontario says total corporate R&D spending in Canada dropped for the fifth year in a row in the 2010 fiscal year, despite an increase in revenues for these companies. The top R&D spenders among Canadian companies in 2010 were found in the information technology, engineering, and aerospace…
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NIH to Fund Diabetes/Cardiovascular Biomarker Collaboration
Researchers at Arizona State University in Tempe will lead a team funded by National Institutes of Health to discover proteins or biomarkers that help predict cardiovascular disease and to assess new treatments for people with type 2 diabetes. The $5 million, four-year project will include scientists from the Phoenix VA Health Care System, Pfizer Inc.,…
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iPhone App Helps Delay Need for Reading Glasses
Software released for iPhones and based on the work of a research team at Tel Aviv University in Israel can help middle-age eyes delay their need for reading glasses. The research, led by Uri Polat, a professor at the university’s medical school, addresses presbyopia, a condition where near vision deteriorates because eyes cannot focus as…
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Math Model Detects Financial Asset Bubbles
Statisticians in the U.S. and France have devised a mathematical model that they say can detect asset bubbles, such as vastly over-valued stocks, in real time. Robert Jarrow of Cornell University and risk management company Kamakura Corp. in Honolulu, Younes Kchia at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and Philip Protter of Columbia University published their findings…
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U.S. Biotech Licenses Hong Kong University Flu Research
Alios BioPharma in South San Francisco and University of Hong Kong agreed to a licensing agreement for the university’s research findings that target influenza viruses. The agreement, officially with the university’s technology transfer company, will be used to advance the company’s R&D and commercialization of medicines to treat influenza infection. The company also agreed to…