Science and Enterprise

Month: January 2012

  • Women U.S. Patent Holders Increase Sharply in 2010

    The number of women obtaining U.S. patents in 2010 increased by 35 percent compared to 2009, according to early results of a study commissioned by the National Women’s Business Council (NWBC). The study by an independent research company examined patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) between 1975 and 2010. Preliminary results…

  • Diagnostics Company Out-Licenses Cancer Testing Technology

    Health Discovery Corporation in Savannah, Georgia says it has licensed its diagnostics technology to NeoGenomics Inc. in Fort Myers, Florida to develop lab tests for blood and solid tumor cancers. The license excludes tests for breast and retina cancers, for which other companies have already acquired Health Discovery’s technology. NeoGenomics will pay Health Discovery Corporation…

  • Analytics Company, Johns Hopkins to Study Asthma Genomes

    Knome Inc., a genomics analysis company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says it received a contract from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore to provide its software and services for a study of genetic variants that contribute to asthma in African American and African Caribbean populations. Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed. The…

  • Report Outlines U.S. Competitive, Innovation Roadmap

    The U.S. Department of Commerce released today a report to Congress on “The Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States” called for by the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson (pictured left) discussed the report’s main findings in a briefing at the progressive think tank Center for American Progress…

  • Ford to Open Silicon Valley Research Lab

    Automobile maker Ford Motor Company says it will open a new research facility during the first quarter of 2012 located in the Silicon Valley region of California near San Francisco. The lab will be part of Ford’s Research and Innovation division, according to chief technical officer Paul Mascarenas who made the announcement in a statement…

  • Cleantech Investment Volume Up, Deal Numbers Down in 2011

    Global investment dollars in clean technologies increased in 2011 from the previous year, but the number investment deals declined somewhat, according to the industry research company CleanTech Group in San Francisco. Clean technologies, as defined by Cleantech Group, include renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, as well as energy efficiency, pollution control, infrastructure…

  • Ophthalmology Drug Delivery Start-Up Gets $4M Investment

    An Atlanta-based start-up, Clearside Biomedical, has received a $4 million venture capital investment from Hatteras Venture Partners in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Clearside Medical is commercializing technology developed at Emory University and Georgia Tech that delivers drugs to precise locations in the eye using hollow microneedles. Research behind the Clearside Biomedical technology was conducted…

  • Electronics Show to Feature Science Start-Up Exhibits

    The 2012 CES in Las Vegas, the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show, will feature an exhibit of start-up companies and technologies emerging from research and development, including small businesses funded by National Science Foundation. The exhibit, called Eureka Park, is a collaboration of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Startup America Partnership, CNET, and UK…

  • Forma, Boehringer Ingelheim to Partner on Cancer Drugs

    Forma Therapeutics, a biotechnology company in Watertown, Massachusetts says it signed an agreement with the German pharmaceutical maker Boehringer Ingelheim to discover and develop drug candidates for cancer. The deal involves the discovery of small molecule drugs targeting interactions among proteins. Forma’s technology for cancer drug discovery involves computational and medicinal chemistry, parallel synthesis, and…

  • Lizard Tail Feedback Boosts Jumping Robot Stability

    A team of biologists and engineers at University of California, Berkeley have documented the way lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble, and applied that capability to robots. Berkeley professor of integrative biology Robert Full and colleagues, including graduate and undergraduate students, describe their findings in the 5 January online issue…