Date | Title | Description |
25.01.2025 | Теряй жир, а не мускулы | Эта история началась с использования препарата GLP-1 для снижения веса. Е, кто его принимают, столкнулись со слишком комплексным эффектом, когда уходил не только жир, но и мускулы. Решением стали интенсивные тренировки с отягощениями в спор... |
19.01.2025 | The Brutalist: A Cinematic Journey Through Architecture and Identity | In the world of cinema, some films stand as towering monuments, while others crumble under the weight of their ambitions. "The Brutalist," directed by Antonio Campos, is a cinematic exploration that navigates the intricate relatio... |
15.01.2025 | Movies | ‘The Brutalist’ review: Adrien Brody’s visionary architect comes to America and meets his destiny | From there, Corbet’s screenplay, co-written by his real-life partner Mona Fastvold, treats the story’s several-decade timeline as a battle royale between the brilliant, difficult artist and his insidiously controlling sponsor. The project t... |
29.11.2024 | Health | A ‘yoga pill’ to end anxiety? Neuroscientists discover a brain circuit that instantly deflates stress | “As a scientist, finding something never known before is always exciting,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “This top-down breathing circuit has been a longstanding question in the neuroscience field. It’s exciting to find the neural mechanis... |
10.10.2024 | The Echoes of Sverdlosk: A Tale of Anthrax and Investigation | In the heart of the Soviet Union, a quiet city named Sverdlovsk became the stage for a chilling tale of negligence and catastrophe. The year was 1979. A military facility, shrouded in secrecy, was conducting experiments with biological weap... |
09.10.2024 | Простая привычка в питании может значительно снизить риск развития диабета и сердечных заболеваний | Исследователи обнаружили, что ограничение приема пищи в течение 10 часов в день повышает важные показатели здоровья сердца. По оценкам специалистов, более трети взрослого населения США страдают метаболическим синдромом — совокупностью медиц... |
05.10.2024 | OSINT: расследование выброса спор сибирской язвы | Авторы: STEIN; Schwarz
Итак, вернёмся к 1979 году, когда Свердловск(ныне Екатеринбург) - мирный и промышленный город в Советском Союзе, стал свидетелем серьёзного выброса спор сибирской язвы — опаснейшего инфекционного заболевания.
Эпидемия... |
16.08.2024 | A New Dawn in Cancer Research: AI and Funding Unite for Hope | In the battle against cancer, innovation is the sword and funding is the shield. Two recent developments highlight this truth: a groundbreaking collaboration between Absci Corporation and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), and a ... |
15.08.2024 | The Lustgarten Foundation Announces Landmark Year of Fueling Cutting-Edge Pancreatic Cancer Research | The Lustgarten Foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world, fueling preeminent researchers and driving bold, innovative science toward better treatments.
The Lustgarten Foundation, the nation's larges... |
30.07.2024 | Houston expert on recognizing AI scams in hiring, recruitment, and retention | Attracting the best and the brightest employees is the goal of every startup and small business. Making these efforts more difficult, beyond the tight labor market in some industries, some employers are becoming the target of job scams — on... |
28.07.2024 | Houston's Innovation Pulse: Grants, Breakthroughs, and New Ventures | Houston is a city of innovation, where technology and healthcare intertwine to create a vibrant ecosystem. Recent developments highlight the city’s commitment to progress, from groundbreaking research in cancer treatment to the rise of a ne... |
26.07.2024 | Houston fintech co. offers new grants, chemist scores funding for cancer treatment, and more top stories | Editor's note:Let's roundup the most-read Houston innovation news from the week. Trending Houston tech and startup articles from InnovationMap and its daily newsletter included a Rice professor securing support for his cancer treatment, an ... |
03.04.2024 | Working with your hands is good for your brain – but typing on your phone doesn't really count | The human hand is a marvel of nature. No other creature on Earth, not even our closest primate relatives, has hands structured quite like ours, capable of such precise grasping and manipulation.
But we’re doing less intricate hands-on work ... |
30.09.2022 | Sorghum’s Revival Goes Against The Grain | The world appears to be waking up to the potential of an ancient grain by the name of sorghum. Originally from the African continent, this gluten free grain, also known as guinea corn, jwari, jowar, kafir or milo, is increasing in global po... |
05.10.2021 | Exo Therapeutics adds $78M as cancer, inflammation drugs march toward clinic | The traditional way of drugging a protein is to get a small molecule to bind to it, but that’s not always feasible. Biotech startup Exo Therapeutics is developing a way to drug proteins by targeting places distant from a traditional binding... |
29.01.2021 | U.S. Hydrocarbon Imperialism: The Lack Of Global Vision In Biden’s Climate Policy, And What He Should Do About It | It's a global hydrocarbon industry -- driven by consumer choice. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty ... [+] Images) Corbis via Getty Images |
10.11.2020 | The Sorghum Solution?: The Salk Institute’s plant-based research to battle climate change gets a boost | When energy nerds talk about carbon capture and sequestration, CCS for short, the discussion normally centers on finding ways to take carbon dioxide from fossil fuel power plants, transporting it to a storage site and depositing it so the C... |
26.10.2020 | Timing Is Everything: How The Secrets Of Chronobiology Can Transform Organisations And Save Lives | getty |
20.08.2020 | Ron Evans steals a trick from I/O, and points the way to a transformational diabetes therapy | Salk Institute scientist and serial biotech entrepreneur Ron Evans showed new mouse work yesterday that could point to a long-sought holy grail for diabetes treatment.
The study, published in Nature, involved a new approa... |
13.05.2020 | Pittsburgh has long been a life sciences engine. Now it’s at the forefront of COVID-19 vaccine efforts | If Dr. Louis Falo and his team at the University of Pittsburgh are successful, the same medical school that produced the vaccine that ended polio could produce the vaccine that ends COVID-19.
“It’s great to be in this environment, with this... |
27.08.2019 | New gene-editing technique could ‘fix’ inherited diseases | Originally Published by:
Colossal mass of volcanic material is drifting toward the Great Barrier Reef Deadly ‘super’ Salmonella outbreak linked to Mexican cheese, US beef NASA astronaut accused of hacking her wife’s bank account from space
... |
16.04.2019 | TED raises $280M to help nonprofits battle climate change, online sex abuse and more | TED is unveiling the eight participants in the second year of The Audacious Project, a program aimed at helping nonprofits pursue their most ambitious goals.
TED’s Chris Anderson told reporters yesterday that this is “an attempt to solve on... |
12.10.2018 | Meeting’s nearly fourfold attendance growth highlights cell, gene therapies’ rise | This was a far cry from the first meeting in 2006, when around 350 scientists huddled for warmth against a hostile world. Early gene therapies had ended in disaster, with the deaths of Jesse Gelsinger and others, and federal restrictions we... |
13.08.2018 | Email reveals former Salk Institute president’s efforts to discourage gender discrimination suit | The former president of the Salk Institute discouraged one of her professors from suing for gender discrimination, saying in a private email that legal action could damage the La Jolla science center’s reputation — and suggesting it might h... |
07.12.2017 | Scientist wins $3 million prize for work on plants that fight climate change | More On: climate change
World won't meet climate targets despite COVID economic pause: UN Indonesian court rules president negligent over pollution 4 in 10 fear having children due to climate change: global survey Nearly every nation except... |
07.12.2017 | Rich Heyman's Metacrine grabs a $22M round in search of a superior NASH drug | A startup founded by biotech A-listers has scored $22 million in a Series B round to help develop its NASH drug. The company, called Metacrine, is pursuing a target its founders think can outperform the field’s fierce compet... |
07.12.2017 | Scientist wins $3 million prize for work on plants that fight climate change | More On: climate change
Florida company wants to use your dead body to fight climate change How scientists are working to undo damage caused by pollution These are the seven greenest states in the US – and the seven least green There’s stil... |
08.03.2017 | From Big Pharma to nascent startup, Deborah Dunsire joins XTuit | On Wednesday — international Women’s Day — XTuit announced the hiring of Deborah Dunsire, one of the most seasoned and respected leaders in biotech and pharma.
Based on data expected in the next 4-6 months, Dunsire said the team hopes to id... |
01.12.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Smart Food Packaging, Robotic Weeding Tech, Indoor Ag, more | ItemMaster, a smart food packaging company, raised a $7.5 million Series A funding led by New Jersey-based growth equity firm Edison Partners. Early-stage venture capital firm Chicago Ventures, which led the startup’s seed round, also parti... |
03.09.2016 | Jeg drak mig i hegnet for at undersøge, om sex kan kurere tømmermænd | Denne artikel er oprindeligt udgivet af Broadly USA
Alle de bedste forskere besidder en nysgerrighed, som tangerer en besættelse. De vil vide, hvordan verden hænger sammen og gøre hvad som helst for at finde svarene. Den nysgerrighed får de... |
24.08.2016 | Can Sex Cure Your Hangover? I Got Insanely Drunk to Investigate | All the best scientists have intense, almost obsessive curiosity. They want to know how the world works, and they'll do whatever it takes to get some answers. This curiosity sometimes leads them to experiment on the closest test subject ava... |
11.06.2015 | XTuit Pharmaceuticals raises $22M for drugs that modulate disease microenvironment | This is XTuit’s official emergence from stealth mode, but MedCity News was the first to report on XTuit’s activity back in December.
Funding comes from New Enterprise Associates, Polaris Partners, CTI Life Sciences, Arcus Ventures and Omega... |
17.04.2015 | Stealth San Diego startup Metacrine raising $33M. Are we reassembling the Seragon team? | Evans, Metacrine’s founder, is a lauded gene expression researcher at the Salk Institute who has a number of successful (cancer and hormone-related) biotechs under his belt.
Evans is known, according to his Salk profile, for his seminal hor... |
29.12.2013 | Scientists exploring computers that can learn and adapt | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
For six or seven decades, computers have been based on processing electronic 1s and 0s.
Now, computer scientists are breaking out of th... |
29.12.2013 | Scientists exploring computers that can learn and adapt | For six or seven decades, computers have been based on processing electronic 1s and 0s.
Now, computer scientists are breaking out of that paradigm in strange new directions, as they seek new ways to tackle problems that digital computers ca... |
15.03.2012 | Merck research center brings together scientists, entrepreneurs, VCs | Merck (NYSE:MRK) has launched a nonprofit translational research center in San Diego in a move that reflects the dizzy heights of the patent cliffs some Big Pharma companies are facing.
The Whitehouse Station, New Jersey company is providin... |
30.08.2007 | California’s stem-cell management disarray | (CORRECTED: See below.)
These should be the best of times for California’s $3 billion stem-cell program. Lawsuits that barred the institute from spending its vast sums have been dismissed, serious money has started to flow to scientists, an... |
- | Exo Therapeutics adds $78M as cancer, inflammation drugs march toward clinic | The traditional way of drugging a protein is to get a small molecule to bind to it, but that’s not always feasible. Biotech startup Exo Therapeutics is developing a way to drug proteins by targeting places distant from a traditional binding... |
- | From Big Pharma to nascent startup, Deborah Dunsire joins XTuit | The human body has a tendency to get carried away. XTuit Pharmaceutical’s aim is to rein it back in.
The Waltham, Massachusetts-based startup exited stealth mode in June 2015. Armed with a $22 million Series A, it set out to unlock the path... |
- | XTuit Pharmaceuticals raises $22M for drugs that modulate disease microenvironment | Cambridge biotech XTuit Pharmaceuticals just raised a $22 million Series A, according to a news release. The startup’s therapeutics target the disease-inducing microenvironment of cancers and fibrotic disease.
The funding will advance XTuit... |
- | Merck research center brings together scientists, entrepreneurs, VCs | Merck (NYSE:MRK) has launched a nonprofit translational research center in San Diego in a move that reflects the dizzy heights of the patent cliffs some Big Pharma companies are facing.
The Whitehouse Station, New Jersey company is providin... |
- | Meeting’s nearly fourfold attendance growth highlights cell, gene therapies’ rise | The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine’s (ARM’s) annual Cell and Gene Meeting needs a bigger boat. Now in its 13th year, the conference attracted more than 1,200 people to Torrey Pines Mesa in San Diego, from October 3 to 5. Last year it dr... |
- | Stealth San Diego startup Metacrine raising $33M. Are we reassembling the Seragon team? | An interesting new San Diego biotech – Metacrine – is in the works.
CFO Trisha Millican said the company’s raised $6.85 million, and is aiming for $33 million – but otherwise is keeping silent on its dealings.
So time for some extrapolation... |