The moon holds a frozen record of the early history of the solar system, and understanding the details of its formation and composition may provide valuable insight.
BIO sets up potential partners through speed meetings
Some 5,500 individuals have paid for the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s speed meeting service, which includes the BIO One-on-One Partnering scheduling software.
Patients and their families are working with pharmaceutical companies, matching patients with clinical trials, paying for research, and lobbying to speed drug development.
- Many scientists are working on treatments to help people with spinal cord injuries walk. Now there’s a striking new demonstration of how one approach might work: Spinal nerve stimulation helped rats walk and climb stairs.
- Waltham’s Raytheon Co. is competing for a contract with the Air Force to create a so-called Space Fence to monitor and catalog the garbage that is in the earth’s lower orbit. (NASA/GETTY IMAGES)
- The circumstances of Lynn Margulis’s career and death provide a window on just how difficult the passing of a working scientist can be for a research university.
- The new exhibit at the MIT Museum, “Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya,” contributes to the sometimes perplexing study of climate change.
- China’s appetite for technology, advanced industrial machinery, medical devices, and other products in which the state specializes is expected to grow.