Tag: manufacturing
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Process Converts Food Waste to Auto Tire Materials
Agricultural scientists in Ohio are developing a process for converting common food waste into materials used in car tires, and filed a patent for these techniques.
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Univ. Spin-Off Develops Lower Cost 3-D Metal Printing
A spin-off enterprise from University at Buffalo engineering school developed a machine that produces lower-cost aluminum parts with three-dimensional liquid metal printing.
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Solar Reactor Devised for Small-Scale Chemical Production
An engineering group developed a solar-powered catalytic reactor that can produce small amounts of drugs and agricultural chemicals on demand.
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Stem Cell Therapy Company Formed, Staked to $225M
A pharmaceutical company and health care venture investor are forming BlueRock Therapeutics, a biotechnology enterprise to design regenerative medicine treatments with stem cells.
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Algae Feed Proposed to Enrich Farm Salmon Fatty Acids
A developer of feeds for farmed salmon says its algae-based feed supplements could arrest the sharp decline in omega-3 fatty acids discovered in a recent study.
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Zika Vaccine Clinical Trial Underway
The first of a series of clinical trials testing inactivated Zika particles as a vaccine to protect against the live Zika virus is recruiting participants.
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Engineered Mosquito Production Facility Opens
A new industrial lab to produce mosquitoes genetically engineered to prevent the spread of infectious diseases opened in Piracicaba, Brazil.
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DoD Grant Funds Exosome Manufacturing Process
A biotechnology company is receiving a Department of Defense grant to develop a commercial-scale manufacturing process for exosomes, tiny bubbles that deliver drugs to cells in the body.
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Synthetic Viruses in Gene Therapy Licensed for Production
Techniques from academic research for developing synthetic viruses to deliver gene therapies are being licensed for commercial production and distribution.
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Ordinary Smartphones Able to Hack 3-D Printers
A hacker with an everyday smartphone can steal design data from three-dimensional printers, according to a new paper from a university computer science group.