Tag: economics
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Institute to Open Innovation Process, Boost Funding Odds
The Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis plans to adopt practices from the business world to conduct more innovative medical research and improve the odds of getting their studies funded. The institute, on the campus of Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, is affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine and focuses on medical informatics, aging,…
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Many Inter-Hospital Helicopter Patient Transports Not Needed
Analysts at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston found many neurosurgical patients transported by helicopter to a critical care facility from hospitals could have made the trip at least as quickly by ambulance. Their findings appeared yesterday in the online journal PLoS One. Surgeon Brian Walcott and colleagues reviewed electronic health records…
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Genetic Technique Reduces Time to Bioengineer Pine Trees
Agricultural scientists at University of Florida in Gainesville have discovered a genetic process that can create new pine tree varieties in half the time it takes current methods. The development that involves a major industry in the southeast U.S. is described in the online edition of the journal New Phytologist (paid subscription required). The research…
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Brand-Name Statin Use Tied to High Cost of Unneeded Care
Researchers from medical centers in New York and San Francisco found that nearly 87 percent of the estimated $6.7 billion spent in one year on unnecessary tests or medications in primary care, is consumed by brand-name statins to treat high cholesterol. The findings appear in a research letter in the 1 October online issue of…
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New On Technorati: Friendly to What Business?
High paying jobs are being created in large numbers right here in the U.S., and in places where the so-called experts say they’re not supposed to happen. If states want the big bucks from big brains and the benefits they bring, then they need to make the work being done and people doing the work…
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Commercial Production Begins for New Lithium Process
Simbol Materials, a three year-old company in Pleasanton, California, says it will begin today commercial production of a pure form of lithium carbonate for electric vehicle batteries and other energy storage devices. The company’s process, developed out of research conducted at and licensed from Lawrence Livermore National Lab, also produces manganese and zinc. The production…
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DoE Science Review Boosts Transport, Grid, Quicker Payoffs
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) today released its first Quadrennial Technology Review report, an assessment of the Department’s technology research and development portfolios. The report urges the department to focus its R&D more on transportation than stationary energy production, grid modernization, and technologies closer to fruition than is now often the case. The report…
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Drug Company Stock Prices Linked to Cancer Trial Results
A study indicates that changes in stock prices of companies in phase 3 clinical trials of their cancer drugs were associated with the outcomes of those trials in the period before the results were publicly announced. The findings of Allan Desky of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada and colleagues appear online in the Journal…
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Mapping Project to Find Innovation, Entrepreneurial Networks
The University of Maryland in College Park will develop analytical mapping tools that identify innovation and entrepreneurial networks, and help spot opportunities for new business collaborations. The project, funded by part of a $500,000 grant from U.S. Department of Commerce, is based on research conducted by a Maryland doctoral candidate in urban and regional planning.…
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U.K. Grant Awarded to Develop Non-Rare Earth Electric Engine
The Technology Strategy Board in the U.K. has awarded a grant to two companies and a university to develop an engine not dependent on rare earth metals for electric vehicles. The funding worth £518,000 ($US 821,000) to companies Sevcon and Cummins Generator Technologies, and Newcastle University is aimed at building a new type of engine…