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Intelligent Vehicle Highway Test Planned in Germany
The largest on-road test of intelligent vehicles is planned for Spring of 2012, according to Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität München, TUM), one of the participants. The exercise involving 120 cars and trucks will test vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastracture communication on Germany’s streets and roads. The test fleet will be equipped with the Safe and…
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Google to Partner with, Finance DNA Sequencing Data Company
DNAnexus Inc., a DNA data management and analysis company in Mountain View, California, says it will collaborate with Google Inc. to provide access to its archive of publicly available DNA data. Also today, DNAnexus announced it has secured $15 million in second-round equity funding from a syndicate led by Google Ventures and life sciences venture…
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Inhaler Developed to Deliver Lung Cancer Treatments
Researchers at University of Strathclyde in Glascow, Scotland have developed an inhalation-based process to administer treatments to lung cancer patients. The method uses a nebulizer that delivers drugs in the form of a fine mist, rather than the current intravenous delivery methods. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that more people in the…
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Broccoli Shown More Beneficial Than Supplement Substitutes
Food scientists at Oregon State University in Corvallis find that a key enzyme in whole broccoli is better absorbed by the body than when offered in a supplement. Their research appeared last month in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (paid subscription required). Broccoli has attracted the interest of researchers because it contains high…
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Roche to License University DNA Sequencing Technology
The Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche has agreed to license DNA sequencing technology developed at Arizona State and Columbia universities to help build a new type of DNA sequencing system. One goal of the system will be to quickly decode a person’s complete genome for less than $1,000. The licensed technologies are based on research conducted…
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Angel Early Stage Investments Gain in First Half of 2011
Angel investments in very early stage U.S. entrepreneurial companies rose in the first half of 2011 according to a new report from the Center for Venture Research (CVR) at University of New Hampshire. Science-based enterprises, says CVR, accounted for over half of the total dollars invested by angels in that period. Angel investors are individuals…
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Graphene Electronic Properties Configured for Computer Chips
A team of physicists from the U.K., Russia, and Japan has proposed a method for using the light weight and conductivity of graphene in computer chips. The researchers, including Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov at University of Manchester in the U.K. who won the Nobel Prize in 2010 for their discovery of graphene, published their…
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Travel day
We’re traveling today, so we will not be posting any items. We’ll be back with our regular post schedule tomorrow. * * *
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Smartphone Isolates Apps into Business and Personal Sections
Computer scientists and engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) and Center for Advanced Security Research (CASED) in Darmstadt, Germany have developed smartphone software with separate business and personal areas. The team plans to discuss their research next week at it-sa (IT security) trade fair in Nuremberg. The work of the Fraunhofer…
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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…