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University Licenses Research for Deer Repellents
University of Minnesota Duluth agronomist and horticulturist Tom Levar has developed a way to protect plants from browsing by deer and mice with a natural hot pepper concentrate delivered to the roots of young plants, making them inedible. Repellex USA, a maker of pest repellents in Niles, Michigan has now licensed the technology. Levar developed…
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Arizona, Texas Industry Research Consortiums in Partnership
The Sensor, Signal and Information Processing center and consortium — known as SenSIP — at Arizona State University in Tempe has earned Industry/University Collaborative Research Center designation from National Science Foundation (NSF). SenSIP also formed a partnership with a similar consortium of four leading Texas research universities. SenSIP’s work involves research on technologies used in…
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Clearing the Air with Nanotech Concrete
Germany’s Fraunhofer-Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME) in Munich, together with the German city of Fulda, and pavement manufacturer F. C. Nüdling Basaltwerke GmbH, also in Fulda, have tested a new paving material that reduces the amount of nitrogen oxide pollutants in the air. High levels of nitrogen oxide in urban areas are…
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Montana State Licensing Biomedical Technologies
Researchers at Montana State University in Bozeman have developed six new biomedical technologies available for licensing to interested companies and entrepreneurs. – An existing clinical drug discovered to act as a potent trigger of immune cells, but also shows promise in enhancing the effectiveness of vaccines, particularly those administered to the lungs. – An extract…
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Biofuels Plant Produces First Cellulosic Methanol
A Range Fuels Inc. plant in Soperton, Georgia — the company’s first commercial biofuels plant — has produced its first cellulosic methanol, using non-food biomass as the feedstock. The first phase of the plant’s operations uses Range Fuels’ two-step thermo-chemical process, which combines heat, pressure, and steam to convert non-food feedstocks, such as woody biomass…
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Small Business Grant Given for Recurrent Sarcoma Vaccine
MabVax Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company in San Diego, California received a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The grant will support a Phase II clinical trial with 134 metastatic sarcoma — cancer of connective or supportive tissue — patients in a randomized, multicenter, double-blind study of a vaccine developed…
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Battery Developer to Power NASA Lunar Robot
Boston-Power Inc., in Westborough, Massachusetts, a developer lithium-ion batteries, says its battery systems have been selected to be part of NASA’s Project M, a project to land a working humanoid robot on the moon in 1,000 days. The company’s batteries will be part of the pack providing power for the robot, known as Robonaut 2…
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Grant Awarded for Nicotine Vaccine
Selecta Biosciences Inc. in Watertown, Massachusetts received a grant for $3 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of National Institutes of Health (NIH), to advance development of an enhanced vaccine to help treat nicotine addiction and aid in smoking cessation and relapse prevention. The grant will fund a candidate from Selecta’s…
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Group to Develop Cell Therapy Industry Standards
The International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) in Vancouver, Canada has rechartered an industry committee to develop standards for business processes that lead to late-stage clinical trials. ISCT expects larger health care and pharmaceutical companies to participate in this group. According to Ed Horwitz, M.D., President of ISCT, the group — called the ISCT Industry…