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Helmet Testing Expands to Baseball, Hockey, Lacrosse
Biomedical engineers at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University will rate helmets for concussion protection in a variety of sports, and for youth football, over the next five years. The rating program applies research conducted by Stefan Duma and Steven Rowson of the joint biomedical engineering program at the two universities published earlier this month…
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We’re back
We’re back from a 10-day hiatus and will begin posting new items later today. Many thanks for your patience, while we recharged our batteries. This fellow appeared at Museo de la Ciudad (Museum of the City) in Havana, Cuba, while we visited there. * * *
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Taking a break
We will be taking a few days off, so Science Business will not publish until Wednesday, 30 January. Thanks for visiting Science Business, and we’ll see you in a few days. * * *
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Material Developed for Warm White Light from LED Bulbs
Researchers from the U.S. and China created a light-emitting diode (LED) bulb that emits warm white light with a single light-emitting phosphor. The findings of University of Georgia physicist Zhengwei Pan, with colleagues from Georgia, Georgia Southern University, Oak Ridge National Lab, Argonne National Lab, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, were published online today…
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FDA Approves Acute Migraine Treatment Patch System
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a battery-powered patch system made by Nupathe Inc. of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania for the treatment of migraine. The patch, marketed as Zecuity, is a single-use system that delivers the drug sumatriptan, and was approved by FDA for treating migraine headaches and nausea after symptoms occur, known as acute treatments.…
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Personal Genetic Information Vulnerabilty Exposed
Researchers from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts were able to identify some 50 people who submitted samples as part of genetic studies with publicly accessible online resources. The team led by Yaniv Erlich of the Whitehead Institute, with colleagues from MIT, Harvard, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, International…
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Semiconductor Research Corp, DARPA, Launch University Nets
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia unveiled their support for six U.S. university research centers. STARnet, as the program is called, will devote $194 million microelectronics research over five years. SRC is university-company research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies…
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FDA Approves Flu Vaccine Based on Engineered Viruses
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new seasonal flu vaccine using a technology that engineers flu virus proteins, rather than the traditional methods of growing inactive viruses in eggs. Flublok, developed by Protein Sciences Corp. of Meriden, Connecticut was approved by the FDA for adults age 18 through 49. Flublok is based on…
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Imaging Technique Identifies Brain Adaptive Functions
Psychologists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and University of Washington in Seattle developed neural imaging methods to understand the way human brains adapt to injury. The team led by Carnegie Mellon’s Marcel Just, director of the university’s Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, published its findings online this week in the journal Cerebral Cortex. The…
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Nanotech Coating Provides Liquid-Repellent Surface
Materials scientists at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Air Force Research Lab at Edwards Air Force Base in California developed a new coating material that can repel virtually any liquid from a surface. The team led by Michigan engineering professor Anish Tuteja reported its findings in the current issue of the Journal of…