'University' Tag

• Two recent U of M graduates launch start-up company, licensing Us atrazine treatment technology

  July 30, 2010

  [Story ID: 3338] Two recent U of M graduates launch start-up company, licensing U’s atrazine treatment technology By Brad Allen | Friday, July 30, 2010 As undergraduates, Joe Mullenbach and Alex Johansson took on a herbicide-eating microbe patented by the University of Minnesota and caught the entrepreneurial bug in the process turning a class project [...]

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• Scientists reveal mechanism of herpes virus cell entry machinery

  July 27, 2010

  [Story ID: 3259] The mechanism by which a herpes virus invades cells has remained a mystery to scientists, but now research from Tufts University and the University of Pennsylvania reveals the unusual structure of a key member of the protein complex that allows a herpes virus to invade cells.The new map details an essential piece [...]

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• BioPatent Design Conference 2010: Munich, Germany

  July 22, 2010

  [Story ID: 3141] BioPatent Design2010 Building a Robust, Secure Biological Patent to Ensure First Time Approval, Protect Product Revenue and Prevent Incoming Attack The area of BioPatent Design is rapidly evolving, with new developments sparking the Gene debate, developments in Biosimilars, protection issues with regards to DNA sequencing patents, vaccines and stem cells as well [...]

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• UM researcher uses computer algorithms to develop vaccines for new strains of influenza viruses

  July 9, 2010

  [Story ID: 2754] Defeating the flu is challenging because the virus responsible for the disease undergoes frequent changes of its genetic code, making it difficult for scientists to manufacture effective vaccines for the seasonal flu in a timely manner. Now, a University of Miami computer scientist, Dimitris Papamichail, and a team of researchers from Stony [...]

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• New hospital gown ensures patient privacy, dignity

  June 24, 2010

  [Story ID: 2477] Patients seeking to conserve privacy and personal dignity – i.e. anyone who’s ever been forced to wear a traditional hospital gown that often reveal too much – may soon bid adieu peek-a-book hospital garb. Indeed, researchers from the University of Montreal have designed a revolutionary healthcare garment that preserves modesty.

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• University of Missouri researchers to investigate cadmiums potential for causing endometrial cancer

  June 10, 2010

  [Story ID: 2243] McDonald’s announced a recall recently of 12 million “Shrek”-themed collectible glasses because traces of the toxic metal cadmium were found in them. Cadmium, a silver-white metal, is found in many substances, including certain foods and batteries, and experts believe that it might be a carcinogen. In a new study, University of Missouri [...]

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• Methane-eating bacteria survive in Lost Hammer spring similar to possible springs on Mars

  June 5, 2010

  [Story ID: 2179] Researchers at McGill’s department of natural resources, the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto and the SETI Institute have discovered that methane-eating bacteria survive in a highly unique spring located on Axel Heiberg Island in Canada’s extreme North. Dr. Lyle Whyte, McGill University microbiologist explains that the Lost Hammer [...]

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• UC tops all universities in winning U.S. patents

  May 27, 2010

  [Story ID: 2058] The University of California was awarded the most U.S. patents of any university last year, according to an annual report by the Intellectual Property Owners Association.

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• Four deaths while waiting in the emergency spur new hospital construction

  May 19, 2010

  [Story ID: 1901] After the four recent deaths of patients in the emergency department there is a mass attempt to speed up the construction of the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in south-east Queensland.

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• Ballard Launches Center of Excellence on Fuel Processing Technology

  April 28, 2010

  [Story ID: 1561] Ballard Power Systems has announced the launch of a new center of excellence for the advancement of fuel processing technology, with founding partners University of Maryland (UMD) and U.S. Department of Defense Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The new center, named FuelWorks, will be located at the University of Maryland in College Park.

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