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  • Mobile Tech Developer Raises $15M in Expansion Round

    The Cambridge, U.K. mobile technology developer ip.access says it has closed a new $15 million round of funding from its current investors in the U.S. and Europe. The company makes small and low-power cellular base stations that boost signal coverage for mobile Internet devices. The collection of ip.access’s current investors all participated, including Amadeus Capital…

  • Treatment Developed for Immune Systems of Chemo Patients

    Researchers from University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have devised a treatment to repair the immune systems of leukemia patients undergoing chemotherapy using the patients’ own infection-fighting cells. The findings from the team that included participants from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston were presented yesterday at the annual meeting of…

  • GE, Acorn Research to Partner on Molecular Cancer Testing

    Clarient Inc., a division of GE Healthcare in Aliso Viejo, California, and ACORN Research in Memphis have agreed to collaborate on molecular testing of tumor samples to result in standardized molecular profiles that improve the link between testing and treatment. These processes, say the companies, can eventually improve cancer treatment and research by delivering targeted…

  • Commercial TB Tests Turn Up High False-Positive Rates

    Tests of three commercially available tests to diagnose the presence of latent tuberculosis turned up false positive results in a majority of positive cases on at least one of the tests. James Mancuso of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, with colleagues from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals,…

  • Energy Dept to Test Expedited National Lab Tech Transfer

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) will test a new process that it says will reduce some of the hurdles faced by businesses in commercializing the department’s research findings. The Agreements for Commercializing Technology (ACT) pilot test is expected to begin in January 2012 and involve the department’s national laboratories. In making the announcement, Deputy…

  • New Wireless Sensor Detects Bacterial Beach Contamination

    Engineers from an environmental technology company and Johns Hopkins University have developed a wireless, autonomous sensor that can detect E. coli outbreaks at beaches and drinking water sources. The team headed by Jeffrey Talley, president of Environmental Technology Solutions in Gilbert, Arizona and adjunct professor of engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, published its…

  • Fuel Economy Standards Create Incentives for Larger Vehicles

    A University of Michigan engineering/economics study discovers incentives in the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for auto makers to build larger vehicles allowed to meet lower targets. The work of former Michigan design doctoral student Kate Whitefoot, now with the National Academy of Engineering, appears online in the journal Energy Policy (paid subscription…

  • Venture Fund Raises $50M for Life Science Investments

    Forbion Capital Partners in the Netherlands says it is closing a new $50 million fund for investing in life science start-up companies nearing liquidity. The company’s second FCF 1 Co-Investment Fund plans to invest additional capital into its current portfolio of life science and biomedical technology companies. Forbion specializes in backing new businesses with late…

  • OriginOil, National Lab to Collaborate on Biomass Standards

    OriginOil Inc. an algae fuel developer in Los Angeles, signed a research agreement with the Idaho National Lab, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, to establish industry standards for algal biomass. Standards for fuels from biomass are considered a an important step in making algal biofuels a competitive alternative to petroleum. The company says…

  • Combating Flu Epidemics Likely to Take More Than Vaccines

    Researchers at MIT urge public health policy makers to rely on more than just vaccines to control future flu epidemics. Richard Larson and Stan Finkelstein of MIT’s Engineering Systems Division make their recommendations in this month’s issue of the journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (paid subscription required). Larson and Finkelstein (who is also…