Scientific Research News

GAINESVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Neuropacs™ Corp. today announced that its Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. David Vaillancourt, will serve as a key scientific leader in a $22 million National Institutes of Health grant supporting the University of Florida-led Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (1Florida ADRC). The award positions Florida among a select national network of only 37 ADRCs in the United States and the only one located in the state, expanding the region's role in a...

AMSTERDAM & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VectorY Therapeutics announces the expansion of its ongoing Phase 1/2 PIONEER-ALS® clinical trial of VTx-002 from 12 to 36 participants in ALS....

MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Promega launches Paradyme™ 27GY STR System, the first STR kit with Reduced-Stutter Polymerase for faster, more confident mixture analysis....

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Terra Quantum, a global leader in quantum technologies, and Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, announced LP-FNO (Laser Processing Fourier Neural Operator), an artificial intelligence surrogate model that predicts full three-dimensional melt-pool dynamics in laser welding up to 100,000 faster than traditional multiphysics simulation. Removing the computational bottleneck that has long blocked real-time p...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Whole AI™, an emerging advisory, research and ecosystem platform founded to help enterprises, institutions and people make better decisions amid consequential technological and societal change, today announced its Fellowship initiative and named security architect, researcher and educator Dennis Moreau, Ph.D., its Distinguished Trust and Information Architecture Fellow. The announcement marks an early milestone in Whole AI's development and reflects an idea at th...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI), a nonprofit research organization advancing protein science to accelerate biomedical research and improve human health, today announced the appointment of Kevin J. Harvey, Ph.D., as President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Harvey joins IPI from Aviva Systems Biology, bringing more than two decades of leadership and research experience focused on antibodies, protein research, and life science research tools. The IPI Board bel...

MANCHESTER, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cytotrait, a biotechnology company harnessing a unique organelle editing approach to develop new crop traits for food and agriculture, today announced the appointment of Dr Ian Jepson as a Non-Executive Director of the Company. With more than 36 years’ experience in global leadership and commercial growth, Dr Jepson will support the Company’s ongoing strategy to develop its proprietary Mutant Organelle Selection System (MOSS) platform, initiate new trait de...

TALLINN, Estonia & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Estonia, led by the National Applied Research Center Metrosert, and Owkin today announced a collaboration to advance sovereign AI in biological and health research, working with Metrosert, Estonia’s state-owned applied research organisation. The collaboration will evaluate how K Pro, Owkin’s AI scientist platform, can help approved researchers work with complex Estonian health data inside secure national infrastructure, enabling reproducible analysis,...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Summit Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: SMMT) today announced key developments important to the company’s progress towards achieving its goal of making a significant difference in the lives of patients with cancer. Specifically, Summit has established agreements with AstraZeneca (LSE/STO/NYSE: AZN) for a strategic equity investment in Summit and a clinical collaboration focused on ivonescimab and sonesitatug vedotin (sone-ve). Moreover, Summit and AstraZeneca intend to evaluat...

WOODBURY, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TeraOpenScience, the open-innovation platform accelerating real-world scientific and technological breakthroughs, today announced the launch of its global contest, Idea • Innovation • Business: A Science Challenge. The competition invites students and early-career researchers to lead one of the platform’s featured technologies, build a multidisciplinary team, and propose a full innovation and commercialization plan to bring the solution to industry.Designed to b...