Science and Enterprise

Month: October 2012

  • On the Road Again

    I will be traveling Thursday and Friday of this week, so there will be no posts during these two days. Regular posting will resume on Monday 8 October. *     *     *

  • Faster Whole Genome Sequencing Developed for Infants

    A team led by researchers at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri reported on the first use of a two-day whole-genome sequencing technique for diagnosing genetic diseases in infants. The team that included researchers from University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Kansas, and Illumnia Inc. in the U.K. described the process in this week’s…

  • Technique Devised for Controlling Graphene Nanopore Size

    Materials scientists at University of Texas in Dallas and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea developed a process for making the size of nanopores in the material graphene small enough to read a single strand of DNA. The discovery is outlined in a recent issue of the journal Carbon (paid subscription required). The…

  • NSF Grant to Fund Natural Gas Development Impacts Study

    An engineering research team at University of Colorado in Boulder will study the balance between natural gas development and its effects on ecosystems and communities. The five-year, $12 million study is funded by National Science Foundation under its Sustainability Research Network initiative. The Colorado team led by environmental engineering professor Joseph Ryan will examine social,…

  • USPTO to Station Staff on Cornell New York Tech Campus

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will assign a staff member to the New York City campus of Cornell University, a technology institute being developed in partnership with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. This USPTO staffer is expected to serve individuals and institutions in the greater New York City region. The USPTO’s Innovation and Outreach…

  • National Lab Builds Android Network for Security Simulations

    Researchers at Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore, California created a virtual network of some 300,000 mobile devices using the Android operation system to study issues related to large-scale network security. Sandia Lab expects to soon demonstrate the MegaDroid network, as its called, for potential industry and government collaborators. “Smartphones are now ubiquitous and used as…

  • Enrollment Begins for Mesothelioma Vaccine Clinical Trial

    Aduro BioTech Inc. in Berkeley, California enrolled the first patient in a clinical trial of a therapeutic cancer vaccine to treat malignant pleural mesothelioma. The trial will test the safety and immune response of Aduro BioTech’s CRS-207 vaccine combined with chemotherapy on patients recently diagnosed with the disease. The phase 1B trial is expect to…

  • Student Start-Up Company Develops Stroke Rehab App for iPad

    Students at four universities in Canada developed an iPad application and started a company to help stroke survivors perform rehabilitation exercises at home. StrokeLink, the name of the company and the app, was part of the 2012 Next 36 program, a Canadian entrepreneurial accelerator for start-ups founded by undergraduates. The StrokeLink app offers stroke patients…

  • University, Companies to Build Medical Analytics Platform

    University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, with four corporate technology partners, will build a comprehensive medical analytics database, integrating data from 200+ diverse research, clinical, and business sources. The two-year project is expected to cost $100 million and include the companies Oracle, IBM, Informatica, and dbMotion. Financial details of the corporate contributions were not disclosed. The…

  • Smartphones Found Feasible Tools for Telemedicine Images

    Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix and clinician colleagues in Arizona found smartphones could exchange acceptable teleradiology images for stroke diagnosis under real-world conditions. The findings from this clinical trial appear online in the journal Stroke. The research, led by Mayo Clinic neurologist Bart Demaerschalk, tested the smartphone application ResolutionMD used to transmit CT…