Category: In The News

Revolutionary diet in the works to curb pet obesity – and we could be next

BATON ROUGE, La. — Two professors at Louisiana State University’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center are in the process of developing a method of pet nutrition that could give overweight companion animals a fighting chance at a longer, healthier lifestyle – and eventually offer the same for humans. Nearly 60% of dogs and 56% of cats…
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How To Operate A Data Centre On A $5k Budget For 4 Years

Imagine only needing a budget of $5,000 to operate and maintain an 18,000sq ft data centre for four years, without the use of internal air conditioners, humidifiers, heaters or exhaust fans. Server Dome data centre have done just that with their geodesic dome-shaped data centre, that provides small footprint and is virtually maintenance free. The…
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VariGrid Explorations wins 470K from DOE

VariGrid Explorations wins 470K from DOE WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced over $20 million in funding for 64 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF).  With additional matching funds from the private sector, these projects will advance promising commercial energy technologies and strengthen partnerships…
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OncoThira and NDSU enter into license agreement to develop, market cancer compounds

OncoThira and NDSU enter into license agreement to develop, market cancer compounds The NDSU Research Foundation and OncoThira have entered into a license agreement involving technology developed at North Dakota State University (NDSU). OncoThira will develop and market compounds discovered by NDSU pharmaceutical sciences researcher Steven Qian for the treatment of cancer. The main compound…
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Known Quantity Sensors, Inc.

News Release: S&T Partners with New Innovators to Bring Smart Cities Technologies to First Responders Release Date:  June 25, 2018 For Immediate Release DHS S&T Press Office, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and its research and development partners today selected 13 U.S. and international companies to develop smart…
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Plasma In Popular Mechanics

Plasma Actuators – Extremely complex physics explained with the help of semi trucks Oct 21, 2015 Formula One cars are the vehicle world’s birds of prey sleekly exploiting aerodynamics to overtake weaker Formula One cars. Long-haul trucks, on the other hand, are built more like turkeys, as if drag, the air resistance that impedes a vehicle’s motion, doesn’t hamper…
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Brain Health Therapeutics

Brain Health Therapeutics, Developer of Novel Patented Technologies to Improve Outcomes for Alzheimer’s Patients, Announces New Team SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Brain Health Therapeutics, Inc., which is developing novel patented technologies to improve outcomes for neurological disorder patients today announced the appointment of Dr. Nick Poulios as Chief Executive Officer of the company. Dr. Poulios is…
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UNeMed | Technology Transfer for UNMC

Startup will develop blood test for unstable coronary artery disease OMAHA, Nebraska (March 27, 2017)—A startup accelerator, Academic Technology Ventures, is building a new biomedical startup company with an invention created at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The startup, HealthCheck, is based on a biomarker discovered at UNMC that could help doctors and cardiologists more…
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Datacenter Dynamics

Facilities covered by an aluminum dome will be built by a start-up Innovative data center design created at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) will be available as a commercial product, with the technology spun off through a start-up called Server Dome. In 2014, OHSU built a facility in Hillsboro that was covered by…
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Portland Business Journal

No, a spaceship didn’t land in Hillsboro. It’s OHSU’s new Data Dome Oregon Health & Science University just boosted its capacity for “big data” biomedical research with a new geodesic-dome-shaped data center on its West Campus. Located at 505 N.W. 185th Ave. in Hillsboro, the $22 million data center began operating in July. It may…
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