Funding

Grants, venture capital and public research funding, and how the money shapes what gets studied.

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National Science Foundation Tech Labs Grants

America Scrambles to Stimulate the Next Decade of Technological Innovations with New NSF Initiative

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has unveiled today the Tech Labs Initiative, aimed at fundamentally transforming how large-scale, real-world applicable, mission-driven research is funded...

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Decentralized Science

Using the DAO Mode for Funding Research

Have you as a researcher have been inundated with posts, talks and articles on DAOs or Decentralized Science (DeSci)? Are you curious if you can...

Blog
genome

An Exclusive Scientific Meeting Gives Birth to the Genome Project-Write

A select group of researchers from top American universities gathered last month in an invitation-only meeting at Harvard to discuss the need of technology and an...

Bioengineering
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Somagenics Secures NIH Funding for Degraded RNA Quantification Technology

Somagenics, a biotech company specialized in small RNA technologies, has received a second NIH grant to develop a method to quantify mRNA from degraded samples....

Bioengineering
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Lab Wars, the Card Game Inspired by Research

A postdoc from the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and a clinical psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire have conceived a card game based on life in...

Education
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Nanopore Diagnostics Raises $600000 to Develop the iNDxer

American startup Nanopore Diagnostics has raised $600000 to develop The iNDxer, a device to detect bacterial infections. The money, provided by the Missouri Technology Corporation...

Biomedicine

PLOS Launches Research-on-Research Section to Increase Transparency

The open-access scientific journal PLOS Biology has launched a section dedicated to research on research. The new section will analyze how research is designed, executed,...

Funding

Cella Medical Solutions wins Adecco Award

The Spanish 3D printing company Cella Medical Solutions won the Adecco “Idea Joven Más Brillante” 2015 Award to the brightest idea from a young entrepreneur....

3D printing