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Biofuel Developer to Build Commercial-Scale Ethanol Plant
Mascoma Corporation, a biofuels company in Lebanon, New Hampshire, said today it has secured financing to build a commercial-scale refinery to produce wood-based cellulosic ethanol. The company says the plant, located in Kinross Charter Township, Michigan, will be one of the first of its kind. Mascoma Corporation was founded by Lee Lynd and Charles Wyman,…
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U.S. Cancer Care Costs to Rise 39 Pct by 2020
The cost of caring for U.S. cancer patients is expected to rise sharply in the 2010 to 2020 decade, according to an analysis published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The combination of population aging and rising expense rates are projected to push the cost for cancer care to $173 billion, a…
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Partnership Will Develop Green Training for Pharmacists
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Practice Greenhealth (PGH) in Reston, Virgina will collaborate to develop and promote sustainability training for pharmacists, pharmacy students, and related professionals. PGH is a membership organization for institutions in health care that have made a commitment to environmentally-friendly practices. The university and PGH will develop training modules…
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New Math Tools Developed to Monitor Power Grid
University and company engineers have developed new mathematical tools for monitoring and measuring electrical power grid performance. The team that developed the tools — from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and Southern California Edison in Los Angeles — published their results in the online issue of IEEE…
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U.K. University Hosts Environmental Tech Training Center
The University of Leicester in the U.K. will soon launch a new €3.5 million ($4.54 million) research center to train environmental researchers in using current satellite technologies. The new European Centre of Excellence in Earth Observation Research Training or GIONET is set to begin on 18 January 2011. The center plans to train 14 researchers…
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Sanofi-Aventis to Support UCSF Research Program
The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-aventis said today it will take part in a program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) that encourages innovative biomedical research. Sanofi-aventis will be the first industry partner in UCSF’s Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research that awards funding to projects of potentially high impact and greater creativity. Sanofi-aventis will…
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2010 Venture Fund Raising Drops to Seven-Year Low
According to a report by Dow Jones LP Source, venture capital (VC) companies in 2010 raised $11.6 billion in 119 funds, a decline of 14 percent compared to the $13.5 billion raised by 133 funds in 2009, and the lowest amount raised in seven years. VCs have been among the traditional equity funders of start…
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Hershey Grant Funds University Sensory Science Lab
The Hershey Company in Hershey, Pennsylvania has awarded a grant to Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) University of Science and Technology for a new sensory science and consumer research laboratory. The grant of $90,000 will fund the start-up and operation of the lab for two years. The university says the sensory science and consumer research program is aligned…
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Enviro. Engineer Recalibrates Solar Panel Placement
An environmental engineer at University of California San Diego (UCSD) has researched the optimum placement of fixed solar panels in the U.S., and for some installations, it may mean making adjustments. UCSD environmental engineering professor Jan Kleissl computed the optimum tilt and azimuth angles for photovoltaic solar panels in the continental U.S., with his findings…
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Danish Pharma Company Restructures, Cuts Workforce
NeuroSearch, a biopharmaceutical company in Copenhagen, Denmark said today the company would restructure its operations to focus more on developing drugs for the central nervous system. This reorganization of the enterprise, says NeuroSearch, will lead to a 20 percent reduction in its workforce. The goal of the restructuring is to accelerate development of its lead…