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BASF, Max Planck Institute Open Joint Carbon Materials Lab
The chemical company BASF and Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research opened a joint Carbon Materials Innovation Center at BASF’s Ludwigshafen, Germany site. The three-year collaboration is expected to cost some €10 million ($US 12.9 million). A 12-member task force from both organizations will research the scientific principles and potential applications of innovative carbonized materials,…
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USPTO Issues Inventor Verification Rules Under First-to-File
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new procedures today to ensure the first person to file a patent application is actually the true inventor. The new rules are part of USPTO’s implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), and are scheduled to take effect on 16 March 2013. The AIA shifts the U.S.…
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Energy Dept to Fund Minnesota Chemistry Computation Centers
University of Minnesota’s chemistry department received two grants from the U.S. Department of Energy for research on software and computational methods on materials from nanotechnology and systems for transporting solar energy. The two five-year grants total $13.1 million, and will be shared by other universities and national labs. The Nanoporous Materials Genome Center, headed by…
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Texas AgriLife, BP to Partner on Biofuel Feedstocks
Texas AgriLife Research, part of Texas A&M University in College Station, and BP Biofuels agreed to develop and commercialize cellulosic feedstocks for the production of biofuels. Financial details of the three-year agreement were not disclosed. The R&D project, says Texas AgriLife, combines plant breeding and production agronomics. The plant breeding segment will develop new varieties…
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Novartis, Penn to Partner on Cancer Immunotherapies
The global pharmaceutical company Novartis and University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia will collaborate on a new type of immunotherapy to treat leukemia and other cancers. Novartis and Penn will also form the Center for Advanced Cellular Therapies on the Penn campus to conduct research on related immunotherapies. The partnership will conduct research, develop and take…
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Special: Health Care Experts Propose Sweeping Cost Control Changes
Updated: 4 August 2012 A group of noted health care policy experts offer a series of proposals they say can rein in health care costs, with implications for the federal budget, the economy as a whole, and developers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. The panel, convened by the Center for American Progress, a progressive think-tank…
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Study: Better Medical Device Security Alerts Needed
Researchers at University of Massachusetts in Amherst and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston (affiliated with Harvard Medical School) uncovered indications that security and privacy problems with medical devices may not be adequately reported or tracked by regulators. The team reported its findings yesterday in the online journal PLoS One. The computer scientists and…
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Algorithms Devised to Aid Inspections of Mines on Ship Hulls
Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have written algorithms that help underwater robots inspect the hulls of ships for mines as small as an iPod. The findings of mechanical engineering professor Franz Hover and Ph.D. candidate Brendan Englot will appear in a future issue of International Journal of Robotics Research. The algorithms help guide a…
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Start-Up Licenses University Patient Medical Software
The Minneapolis-based start-up Omicron Health Systems Inc. has licensed software written at University of Minnesota for clinical decision making and networking across health-care providers. Financial terms of the licensing agreement were not disclosed. Many electronic health care record systems were first designed for administrative purposes, such as billing and scheduling, and for use only by…
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UCLA to Study Copper Surfaces to Reduce Hospital Infections
University of California in Los Angeles received a $2.5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for a clinical trial to test the use of copper to decrease the number of hospital-acquired infections. The research team will be led by the university’s Sustainable Technology and Policy Program and include members from UCLA’s…