Science and Enterprise

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  • Student Develops Heart Health Management Smartphone App

    An undergraduate student at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey led the development of a smartphone app to help heart patients prevent and manage heart failure. Shannon Patel, a registered nurse at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey and bachelor of science candidate at Rutgers-Camden, led the team that developed the…

  • Google: No Open-Source Patent Suits, Microsoft Lists Patents

    Information technology giants Google and Microsoft each spelled out new policies yesterday they claim will increase the transparency of their intellectual property practices. Google vowed it would not take legal action against developers of open-source software on some of its patents, and Microsoft published an online tool listing all of the company’s patents. Google’s vow…

  • Cancer Analytics Prototype Based on Patient Records Unveiled

    American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Alexandria, Virginia demonstrated a prototype of its CancerLinq system based on information in patient records that aims to provide clinicians with better tools for decision-making. ASCO demonstrated the system yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The goal of CancerLinq is to provide cancer physicians and…

  • Accelerator Offers Mobile Medical App Regulatory Guide

    Rock Health, a health care start-up accelerator in San Francisco, prepared an online guide to help developers of medical apps for mobile devices better understand the Food and Drug Administration’s review processes. The guide is written as an online slide presentation, viewable below and available through SlideShare. The need for the guide is growing, says…

  • NSF Funding Organic Crystals Research for Electronics

    A physics professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina received a $400,000 National Science Foundation grant for research on the physical structure and electronic properties of organic semiconductor crystals. The five-year award to Wake Forest’s Oana Jurchescu was made under NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program. Organic semiconductors are hydrocarbon substances like…

  • Alternative Quantum Computing Data Storage Process Found

    Physicists at Technical University Munich (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, TUM) in Germany found an alternative method for storing data as quantum bits for quantum computers using carbon nanotubes. The findings of TUM’s Simon Rips and Michael Hartmann appear online today in the journal Physical Review Letters (paid subscription required). Quantum computing is a more powerful method…

  • Investment Fund to Support Canadian Quantum Technologies

    Quantum Valley Investments, a new venture fund in Waterloo, Ontario, plans to invest $100 million to develop and commercialize quantum computing technologies in its region. The fund, started by Blackberry co-founders Michael Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, aims to make stimulate development of Waterloo and vicinity into a Quantum Valley technology hub, similar to Silicon Valley…

  • Polymer Light-Trapping Properties Enhanced for Photonics

    Researchers at North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina developed a process for enhancing a polymer’s ability to trap light waves, making it a better material for photonic semiconductors. The team led by NC State materials scientist Lewis Reynolds published its findings online in a recent issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters.…

  • Database Enables Documentation of Rare Genetic Disorders

    A new online database developed by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston will make it possible for researchers and clinicans to collect data on diseases caused by single faulty genes. The database, known as PhenoDB is described in a recent online issue of the journal Human Mutation. PhenoDB is…

  • Hospital, Community MRSA Forms Predicted to Coexist

    Epidemiologists and mathematicians at Princeton University in New Jersey developed a computer model of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) transmission that shows the two leading forms of the bacteria will both continue to exist, without one dominating the other. The team working under the direction of population biologist Bryan Grenfell published its findings online in a…