Immuno-oncology is all the rage these days, and it’s easy to see why. Breakthroughs in harnessing the power of our body’s natural defenses are unlocking new ways to fight cancer, and producing some of the most promising results the field has seen to date.
Bucharest-based Automobile Club of Romania has come up with a solution to a seemingly impossible problem: how to make driving theory practice more interesting. The answer, it seems, is to create questionnaires based on real Google Street View situations. Street View Test enables learner drivers to hone their traffic law knowledge using the streets they will eventually be driving on. Drivers can even add their own tips — identifying unruly traffic situations they have spotted on the Google Street View — for the organization to create questions from.
Significant advances in additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, commonly known as 3D printing, over the past decade have transformed the potential ways in which products are designed, developed, manufactured, and distributed.1 For the automotive industry, these advances have opened doors for newer designs; cleaner, lighter, and safer products; shorter lead times; and lower costs.
U.S.-based medical startups raised a record amount of funding in the first quarter of 2015, Brian Gormley reports for Dow Jones VentureWire. The $3.9 billion invested in the sector surpassed the previous record high of $3.42 billion invested in the second quarter of 2014, according to data provider Dow Jones VentureSource.
Pistoletazo de salida oficial al nuevo proyecto de inversión del CDTI. El Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial, dependiente del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, lanza el proceso de selección de una gestora de capital riesgo a través de la que canalizar 100 millones de euros a empresas innovadoras. Y coincidiendo con la apertura de la convocatoria, la entidad inicia una gira para promocionar el nuevo vehículo entre inversores internacionales.
ClickMechanic, the U.K. startup aiming to be something like an ‘Uber for car mechanics’ by offering a marketplace that lets you easily and transparently book a mobile mechanic, has scored a modest seed round.
The London-based company, founded by Andrew Jervis and Felix Kenton, has raised £320,000 from angel investors led by former Just Eat CEO Klaus Nyengaard.
La multinacional española Grifols será uno de los tres primeros proyectos que se beneficiará del Plan Juncker, con el que la Comisión Europea pretende movilizar unos 315.000 millones de euros en inversiones durante los próximos tres años. El fabricante español de productos derivados del plasma sanguíneo recibirá 100 millones de euros de financiación del Banco Europeo de Inversiones (BEI).
Grifols dispondrá de esta financiación para financiar un proyecto de investigación y desarrollo relacionado con el tratamiento del Alzheimer y las enfermedades cardiovasculares. El coste total del proyecto de la empresa española asciende a 241 millones.
A finales del año 2013 y principios de 2014, cerca de 30 terremotos sacudieron las inmediaciones de la ciudad de Azle, en Texas (EEUU), donde nunca habían tenido relación alguna con los temblores de tierra. Los vecinos y algunos expertos se apresuraron a vincular aquellos movimientos con una técnica de inyección en el subsuelo del agua de desecho que genera la extracción de gas mediante el llamado 'fracking'. En aquel momento, la indignación ciudadana se manifestó durante días reclamando a la administración y a los reguladores que frenase las actividades industriales hasta que la ciencia se pronunciase al respecto.
There is a shrine inside Hewlett-Packard’s headquarters in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley. At one edge of HP’s research building, two interconnected rooms with worn midcentury furniture, vacant for decades, are carefully preserved. From these offices, William Hewlett and David Packard led HP’s engineers to invent breakthrough products, like the 40-pound, typewriter-size programmable calculator launched in 1968.
As some 3,000 experts in genomics and bioinformatics gather in Boston this morning for the opening of the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, San Diego’s Edico Genome announced it has forged a partnership with Intel to accelerate data analysis of next-generation genome sequencing technologies.
Edico Genome was founded two years ago to address a bottleneck in the analysis of data generated by next-gen machines like Illumina’s HiSeq X Ten.
