Google lost Android Battle With Oracle, Could Owe Oracle $ 8.8 Billions As reported by CNN Money An appeals court said on Tuesday that Google violated copyright laws when it used Oracle’s open-source Java software to build the Android platform in 2009. Tuesday’s ruling is the latest development in a [..]
Paper-Folding Art Inspires Better Bandages By: Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Scraped up knees and elbows are tricky places to securely apply a bandage. More often than not, the adhesive will peel away from the skin with just a few bends of the affected joint. Now MIT engineers have [..]
Novartis drug Tasigna® approved by FDA to treat children with rare form of leukemia By: Novartis News Novartis announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the indication for Tasigna® (nilotinib) to include treatment of first- and second-line pediatric patients one year of age or older with Philadelphia [..]
FDA Approves Genentech’s Lucentis® Prefilled Syringe for Diabetic Macular Edema and Diabetic Retinopathy Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY), today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Lucentis® (ranibizumab injection) 0.3 mg prefilled syringe (PFS) as a new method of administering [..]
Novartis teams up with Harvard to develop next-generation biomaterial systems to deliver immunotherapies By: Novartis News Novartis announced today that it is teaming up with scientists from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to develop biomaterial systems for its portfolio of [..]
Newly Described Human Antibody Prevents Malaria in Mice By: NIAID News Scientists have discovered a human antibody that protected mice from infection with the deadliest malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. The research findings provide the basis for future testing in humans to determine if the antibody can provide short-term protection against malaria, [..]
“Body on a chip” Could Improve Drug Evaluation By: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect possible side effects before the drugs are tested in humans. Using a microfluidic platform that connects engineered tissues from [..]
Molecular Cuisine for Gut Bacteria By: EMBL News Scientific recipes to successfully grow and study gut bacteria in the lab: that’s what EMBL* scientists are publishing in Nature Microbiology on March 19. They report on the nutritional preferences and growth characteristics of 96 diverse gut bacterial strains. Their results will help scientists [..]
New Form of Electronic Matter By: Lois Yoksoulian | UIUC news Researchers have produced a “human scale” demonstration of a new phase of matter called quadrupole topological insulators that was recently predicted using theoretical physics. These are the first experimental findings to validate this theory. The researchers report their findings in [..]
Best Tricks For Self Motivation By: Vijay Soni, Ph.D. | Founder and C.E.O. Scipreneur Where there’s no will, there’s no way. One of the best ways to improve your personal effectiveness is to master your motivation and find your drive. If you can master motivation, you can deal with life’s setbacks, [..]
REMIX New York 2018 – Summit for Culture, Technology, Entrepreneurship 22-23 March 2018 REMIX Summits bring together pioneers from different industries to explore the future of culture, creative cities and the creative economy. A unique forum where creative leaders from different industries can exchange insights, ideas and work together towards common goals. [..]
Personalizing Wearable Devices By Leah Burrows | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences When it comes to soft, assistive devices — like the exosuit being designed by the Harvard Biodesign Lab — the wearer and the robot need to be in sync. But every human moves a [..]
ARCHANGEL SUMMIT 2018 Archangel [ARK-Angel] Summit is the annual gathering of mission-driven entrepreneurs, leaders, and professionals who want to do well by doing good. Saturday, September 8, 2018 – Metro Toronto Convention Centre South – Toronto, Canada Ticket pricing 2017 Summit highlights Archangel Summit [..]
Faster, Cheaper and More Reliable Tuberculosis Diagnosis by Stanford Researchers By: Nathan Collins | Stanford News Tuberculosis, a distant memory to most Americans, remains a serious public-health threat in developing countries, in part because the most common test for the disease was developed a century ago and is not the most [..]
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