The protective sheath surrounding the brain’s blood supply—known as the blood-brain barrier—is a safeguard against nasty germs and toxins. But it also prevents existing drugs that could potentially be used to treat brain cancer or Alzheimer’s disease from reaching the brain. That’s why scientists want to unchain the gates of this barrier. Now a new study shows it’s been done in cancer patients.
LogicMonitor, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup specializing in data center monitoring services, has raised $130 million from private equity firm Providence Strategic Growth (PSG).
There’s no clinical test for Alzheimer’s disease, so physicians diagnose it by conducting assessments of patients’ cognitive decline. But it’s particularly difficult for them to identify mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an early stage of dementia when symptoms are less obvious. And it’s even harder to predict which MCI patients will develop Alzheimer’s disease (not all of them do).
El frenazo que han sufrido las grandes economías en el arranque del año se han dejado notar en sus intercambios comerciales. Todos los organismos internacionales lo habían vaticinado en sus últimos informes.
ACS puede recibir buenas noticiias en los próximas días para reducir su abultada deuda. Según fuentes próximas a la operación, la constructora ya ha recibido las cuatro ofertas finales para vender Urbaser, el primer grupo español de recogida y tratamiento de residuos.
La Universidad Complutense de Madrid se ha puesto a dieta. En vísperas de la llegada del verano, ha comenzado una suerte de operación bikini para dejar en los huesos su estructura organizativa sin quitar ninguna titulación. Buena parte de los profesores y los decanos se resisten a este régimen de adelgazamiento, que conlleva que las 26 facultades actuales se queden en 17 y los 185 departamentos se reduzcan en un 60%.
Acciona potenciará su división de ingeniería con nuevos negocios y mercados. La filial del grupo que preside José Manuel Entrecanales quiere crecer en nuevas actividades como la consultoría, la gestión o management de proyectos, un área específica de instalaciones ferroviarias, proyectos hidroeléctricos, estudios de impacto social y ambiental y la implantación del Building Information Modelling (BIM). Con ello, la firma busca nuevas vías de ingresos.
Developed by a squad of veterans from several branches of the military, New York-based TripSafe on Tuesday unveiled a smartphone-controlled security monitoring system that alerts travelers, and others if they desire, to any unauthorized entry to their hotel rooms.
TripSafe is something like a travel version of other home monitoring systems, such as Canary, that are controlled by smartphones.
Detachable wedge sensors placed at the doors set off an alarm if someone tries to access the hotel room without the user’s permission, says CEO Derek Blumke. The wedge can also physically help block the door if someone tries to break in.
Palo Alto, CA-based Barefoot Networks today laid claim to that earth-mover status, emerging from stealth after two years to announce it had raised a total of $130 million to advance its high-speed, programmable processing switch that will allow businesses and telecommunications companies to customize the way their data networks handle information.
Barefoot describes its Tofino chip as a disruptive challenge to a “tightly held cabal of switch chip vendors” whose fixed-function switches lock customers into a heavily standardized network architecture. These switches are the traffic cops that route data packets around the Internet.
