Tag: university
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New Process Being Developed to Keep Berries Fresh Longer
A new way of improving the shelf life of soft fruit like strawberries and raspberries is being developed by researchers at universities and industry in the U.K. Food scientists at University of Nottingham are teaming with engineers at Loughborough University and British fruit grower Berryworld to test an anti-bacterial process called cold plasma as a…
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Lycera Corp., Merck to Partner on Autoimmune Drugs
Lycera Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company in Plymouth, Michigan, says it has a collaboration agreement with the global drug maker company Merck to develop drug candidates that treat major autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, and multiple sclerosis. Under the agreement, Lycera can receive up to $307 million, as well as later…
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Process Turns Algae into Renewable Fuel, Cleans Wastewater
Chemical engineers at University of Arkansas in Fayetteville have developed a method for converting common algae into butanol, a renewable fuel that can be used in today’s internal-combustible engines. The technology has the added benefit helping to clean and oxygenate U.S. waterways by removing excess nitrogen and phosphorous from fertilizer in agricultural runoff. The team…
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Blood Protein Test Can Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions
A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland indicates that a routine test for a protein in blood can reduce the number of hospital readmissions due to congestive heart failure. Their findings appear online in the American Journal of Cardiology (paid subscription required). Johns Hopkins research fellow Henry Michtalik and colleagues tested…
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Tufts University Gets Patent for Kidney Disease Treatment
Researchers at Tufts University’s veterinary school in Grafton, Massachusetts have received a U.S. patent for an antibody-based treatment for hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a potentially fatal outcome of E. coli poisoning and a leading cause of kidney failure in children. The Tufts technology covered by the patent, developed by microbiology professor Saul Tzipori, uses human…
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Universities, Brewery Partner on Biofuels from Brewery Waste
Researchers from Anheuser-Busch Inbev Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri and three universities have discovered stable microbe communities in brewery sludge with the potential to produce the basic building blocks of fuels. Their findings appear in the 22 February online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team from Cornell University, University…
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Venture Fund to Finance Univ. Tech. Start Ups
Osage University Partners in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania says it completed fund raising for its first venture capital fund financing new enterprises that license technology developed in university labs. The company says the fund, called Osage University Partners 1, achieved its goal of raising $100 million. Osage University Partners was founded in 2009 by venture professionals…
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Georgetown Univ., FDA to Partner on Regulatory Science
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Rockville, Maryland signed a new agreement to encourage research and education in the fields of regulation and public health. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed today covers regulatory science, ethics, education, and training. The five-year agreement is expected…
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Ultrasound Advances to Bedside for Routine Diagnoses
Clinicians at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut report on advances in ultrasound technology that make it a tool used increasingly for specialties outside of radiology. Yale medical school faculty members Christopher Moore and Joshua Copel describe these advances in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (paid…
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Nanotech Emergency Water Treatment Technology Devised
Chemistry researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed a technology for a cheap, portable, paper-based water treatment system when disasters like floods or earthquakes strike. The team’s findings were published earlier this month in the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (paid subscription required). The researchers, led by industrial chemistry professor Derek Gray,…