The Welsh Wound Innovation Centre aims to research new treatments and bring on life-science start-up firms.
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The ambivalence was nicely captured earlier this week by two contrasting reactions from early-stage life-science shops in Boston.
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His latest gambit is closer to home but equally bold: turning a run-down Seattle neighborhood called South Lake Union into a center for biotech and life- science research.
The biotech space is the one sector where early-stage winners are difficult to find because of the complexity of the medical breakthroughs that young life-science companies are trying to achieve.
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To this end, many pharmas are using in-house venture groups to support early-stage companies, and as Atlas VC Bruce Booth reports, life-science financing these days (especially early-stage) increasingly involves at least one corporate VC.
It's the impact of a Health and Human Services Department that funds research by women like Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a biotechnology and life science pioneer -- (applause) -- who won the National Medal of Science in 2006.
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But two-dozen software, hardware and life science companies from Mexico had a coming-out party of sorts in Silicon Valley this week.
The test is given every three years, and it measures the ability of 15-year-olds to apply math and science to real-life situations.
The academic research has in turn spawned a population of venture-capital-funded work in life science.
"While we want to encourage life-saving advances we must not let science advance in a moral vacuum, " he said.
Springboard is currently recruiting for its Life Science accelerator program for high-growth biotech, device and health IT companies led by women.
In addition the chief executive of Valve - the creator of the influential science fiction games Half Life and Portal, as well as the Steam community and marketplace - was honoured with an Academy Fellowship, Bafta's highest accolade.
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Just as Mars -- a desert planet -- gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
Compared to high-flying social media valuations, life science investments have started to look like a charity case.
The fund aims to provide capital to the most promising life science technologies, including those being spun-out from leading UK universities.
The life-and-death question is whether these efforts and the largesse of Eli Broad and other patrons of science will be enough to let the U.S. lead the stem-cell revolution.
The site is one of three acres that will eventually contribute to the three-tower, 1.1 million-square foot complex called Alexandria Center for Life Science.
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Harvard Bioscience (HBIO), a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of tools to advance life science research and regenerative medicine, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology, Inc.
But the life-form has a hidden weakness, and only two junior-college science teachers (David Duchovny and Orlando Jones) can stop it.
BP's new technique - called LoSal EOR and announced here at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen - promises to increase both the life and yield of oilfields worldwide.
He had long been interested in the idea of life in space, but that interest was initially expressed only in his science-fiction.
When someone's freedom and, in an American context, possibly his life, as well is at stake, it surely behoves forensic-science laboratories to take precautions that are equally strong.
The life science sectors in the United States are still robust, and cleantech--including clean energy, and environmental and green products and services--is providing an entirely new and promising channel for venture money.
Originally, Aventis was expected to be a so-called "life sciences" company, basing its sales on both medicine and agricultural science.
After leaving GMA in 2006, he returned to writing and published best-seller The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life.
Academia is, for the most part, well suited to work-life balance choices. (I, say, for the most part because science, maths and engineering appear to have deeper problems).
Kidney transplant recipient Sally Satel has noted that burial and cremation expenses can be provided when a body is donated to science -- as long as it isn't used to save the life of a current patient.
On a lighter -- or is that darker -- note, other areas of science and technology bravely march ever-onward with the goal of a better understanding of life, the universe, and tattoos.
Frederik Pohl, a veteran science-fiction author, certainly thinks so, for he has spent much of his life visiting sites of scientific interest both to research his books, and also out of simple curiosity.
Kepler is searching for Earth-like planets around far-flung stars, and the Mars Science Laboratory will sample the Red Planet's geology looking for the building blocks of life - though it will not explicitly look for life itself.
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