Vivek Wadhwa had a series on TechCrunch in September, beginning with The VC, the Professor and the Valley of Death, in which he discusses the difficulties of translating research into commercial products. Taking these types of hard science discoveries from bench to fab or factory is sometimes ..
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) launched Expert Labs yesterday, to take advantage of the wisdom of crowds and experts looking at public policy issues. A non-profit funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Expert Labs will also reach out to VCs and incubators as well to ..
Google, The Internet Archive, and Intellectual Ventures have partnered with the US Patent Office for public dissemination of patent information, according to Carl Malamud at O'Reilly Radar. He observes that The patent database is no ordinary database. This is the only database specifically ..
The six-student team from UVA Biomedical Engineering brought home a gold medal from the recent International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. Team members Joe Bozzay, Maria Fini, Brandon Freshcorn, Rohini Manaktala, Dan Tarjan and Thaddeus Webb began collaborating last spring ..
The New Oxford American Dictionary announced the 2009 Word of the Year recently - "unfriend", a verb meaning to remove someone as a friend on a social networking site. Finalists included "hashtag", "intexicated", "freeium", and "funemployed". See Reuters or PC World for more definitions, and ..