Esta semana ALECOP y la Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua (USMA), firmaron un convenio por un contrato de consultoría en la identificación y definición del centro de capacitación y certificación técnica profesional Ingeniero Jorge Richar de la USMA, en la especialidad de logística Marítima y Construcción.
A proposal by a group of scientists and businesspeople to synthesize a human genome from scratch is attracting sharp criticism for dodging the big ethical questions such a step raises.
The proposal, described today in a two-and-a-half-page letter being published in Science, is to string together synthetically made DNA and shape from it a human genome able to power a cell in a dish, according to lead authors Jef Boeke of New York University’s Langone Medical Center and biotechnologist George Church of Harvard Medical School.
The food tech category encompasses everything from Grubhub-Seamless competitors to laboratories designing plant-based meat. The bulk of funding has gone to food delivery startups, which raised nearly $5.5 billion last year and include two of the most well-funded food startups, China’s Ele.me and Germany-based Delivery Hero.
Notion, a connected home startup headquartered in Denver, closed $3.2 million in additional funding as part of the second tranche of a previous seed round from last year.
XL Innovate led the deal with Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures participating. Notion has now raised a total of 5.7 million dollars in addition to a successful Kickstarter. The company currently has 11 employees and has plans to expand to 25-30 over the next year.
U.S. track cyclists training for the 2016 Olympic Games are equipped with a new high-tech wearable: the Solos smart cycling glasses. The shades display in real-time performance metrics culled from the athletes’ bike sensors, heart rate monitors, and other self-tracking devices, enabling riders to view their critical stats without taking their eyes off the road.
Reduce su coste financiero por cuarto año consecutivo y es la segunda operación de reordenación financiera que realiza este mes.
Si hay una compañía que ha sacado el máximo partido de la caída de los tipos de interés y de la renovada adhesión de los bancos al negocio del crédito es Gestamp. La empresa dedicada a la fabricación de componentes para el automóvil lo ha hecho por todas las vías posibles y durante todos los años que ha sido capaz. En mayo lo ha demostrado por partida doble.
Faced with mounting pressure to digitize and automate their vehicles, the world’s major automakers are aggressively ramping up their involvement with tech companies of all stripes. From startup financings and acquisitions to partnerships with Silicon Valley giants, big auto is leaving no stone unturned as it rushes to secure its future.
Yes, it’s true that a group of leading geneticists is calling for the construction of a synthetic human genome. That means they want to take 3 billion chemical building blocks and assemble them into one complete package of DNA, encoding all the body parts and life processes that make up a functional human being.
But the organizers want to make one thing very clear: “We’re not planning to make synthetic people,” says a somewhat exasperated Jef Boeke, one of the champions of this proposal. “We never were.”
Every year in the United States, about 150,000 patients with heart failure undergo surgery to have cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices implanted. These send regular jolts of electricity through their hearts to keep the chambers pumping in unison. However, about 50,000 of those people will receive no benefit from this invasive and expensive procedure—and find that they have few options left to keep them alive.
