Science and Enterprise

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  • Vanderbilt, Records Company Partner on Clinical Data Network

    21 February 2014. Greenway Medical Technologies in Carrollton, Georgia and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville are creating a clinical records data network to cover the mid-South region in the U.S.  Greenway is a developer of electronic medical and health records. The 18-month project, funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), has a…

  • Artificial Muscle Created from Fishing Line, Thread Material

    20 February 2014. An international team of materials scientists and engineers developed high-strength artificial muscles from materials found into ordinary fishing line and sewing thread. The consortium from University of Texas in Dallas, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues from China, Turkey, Australia, and Korea published their findings today in the journal…

  • Chip Designed to Capture Images Inside Heart, Blood Vessels

    19 February 2014. Engineers at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta designed and lab-tested a microscopic chip to create real-time, three-dimensional images from inside the heart and blood vessels. The team led by mechanical engineering professor Levent Degertekin, with colleagues from Georgia Tech and Istanbul Technical University in Turkey, published its findings in this month’s issue of…

  • UCLA Starts Crowdfunding Platform for Research, Service

    18 February 2014. University of California at Los Angeles today started a crowdfunding platform to finance research and service projects by faculty and students. The platform, called UCLA Spark, began with five appeals including research projects in engineering and public health. Crowdfunding, according to the technology Web site Mashable, “describes the collective effort of individuals who…

  • Golden Goose Highlights Bipartisan Support for Basic Science

    15 February 2014. Research on black holes in space by a University of Illinois physicist led to development of an early Web browser on which much of today’s browsers are based. That physicist, Larry Smarr, now at University of California in San Diego, is the first 2014 winner of the Golden Goose award to recognize…

  • Science-Based Enterprises: Great Ideas Beat Venture Capital

    14 February 2014. Three entrepreneurs starting companies based on science described how they got their businesses off the ground, with ground-breaking science in many cases more important than a large stash of venture capital. San Diego entrepreneurs John Newsam, Irwin Jacobs, and Han Cao told of their start-up business experiences today at a session of…

  • AAAS Pres: Science Drives Innovation, Economic Growth

    13 February 2014. Phillip Sharp, professor of molecular biology at MIT and president of American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), underscored the tight connection between scientific advancement, entrepreneurship, and economic growth, in the opening plenary session of the AAAS annual conference in Chicago. Sharp described the way scientific discovery feeds the economic engines of…

  • Bio-Inspired Cooperative Robotic Control System Developed

    13 February 2014. Computer scientists and bio-engineers at Harvard University created a system inspired by termites that controls the work of autonomous robots in complex construction tasks. The team led by computer scientist Radhika Nagpal published its findings in the new issue of the journal Science (paid subscription required), and will also be presented at…

  • Health Research Collaborative Adds Seven New Members

    13 February 2014. Optum Labs, a partnership to increase sharing of solutions and data to improve health care, says seven more organizations from the private, university, and not-for-profit sectors became members of the  collaboration. The new participants join current Optum Labs members Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, Mayo Clinic, and AARP. The Optum Labs…

  • Start-Up Developing Gene Therapies Lands $45M in Early Funds

    12 February 2014. Voyager Therapeutics, a new start-up in Cambridge, Massachusetts creating gene therapies for disorders of the central nervous system, gained $45 million in first-round financing. Third Rock Ventures, a venture capital company specializing in life science enterprises, provided the funds for the company founded by researchers at University of Massachusetts Medical School, University…