Binghamton University will lead the New York node of a new $75 million, five-year federal initiative to advance flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing following the US Department of Defense (DoD) choice of the Flex Tech Alliance, of which Binghamton University is a founding partner, as America’s first Innovation Institute for Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing (FHE MII). “The Flex Tech Alliance and ...
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NIH kicks off 5 research projects simultaneously to address blindness
US National Institutes of Health have kicked off 5 bold projects to develop new technology to noninvasively image cells of the eye in unprecedented detail and seek answer to cure blindness. The National Eye Institute (NEI) said as part of its Audacious Goals Initiative, it would provide $3.8 million to the projects in 2015 and up to $17.9 million over ...
Read More »What is Plasma Rocket Engine that Takes 39 Days to Reach Mars?
NASA has zeroed in on the Ad Astra Rocket Company for its future space rocket engine that can shorten the travel to Mars from 9 months to 39 days, with its new revolutionary plasma rocket engine. Franklin Chang-Diaz, CEO of the Ad Astra Rocket Company from Texas, says,”This is like no other rocket that you may have seen in the ...
Read More »Johnson & Johnson Given $115 Mln to Speed up Ebola Vaccine Trial
Johnson & Johnson, which has started its clinical trials for Ebola vaccine, was given $115 million (100 million euro) from Europe’s Innovative Medicines Initiative to speed up its development. The has started its clinical trials earlier this week of its two-injection vaccine, which uses a booster from Denmark’s Bavarian Nordic. This will be the third vaccine to enter human testing ...
Read More »Google celebrates season of giving with $15 Million in grants
Google team said it is joining in to help spread the holiday cheer by giving more than $15 million in grants to organizations using technology to address some of the world’s biggest problems. From San Francisco to Western Africa, these organizations are making a direct impact on people around the world, every day. Posted by Jacquelline Fuller, Director, Google.org. Coinciding ...
Read More »Ebola Fight: Gates Foundation Gives $5.7 Million
After World Bank has approved a grant, an aid of $5.7 million is provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation too for the fight against the deadly Ebola virus disease. The foundation has decided to support efforts in Guinea and other Ebola-affected countries to scale up the production and evaluation of convalescent plasma and other convalescent blood products as ...
Read More »Post-grant of $600,000, Google acquires DNNresearch
Close on the heels of a $600,000 gift Google awarded Professor Geoffrey Hinton’s research group in the University of Toronto to support their work in the area of neural nets, the global search giant has acquired their upcoming startup DNNresearch, which will enhance Google’s synergies in voice recognition, text search and image search. The amount of Google’s new acquisition is ...
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