Snap Observations: Dec 13, 2007
“Hybritech was ‘really the breeding ground’ for future venture capitalists and entrepreneurs of the biotech industry.” The Scientist profiles the San Diego startup that got off the ground in 1978 and spawned a thriving network of biotech firms in the city.
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state’s stem cell agency, announced $54 million in New Faculty Award grants to 22 recipients. Applicants from five institutions were rejected due to conflicts of interest.
Meraki is a Silicon Valley start-up that makes simple wireless networking equipment that deploys easily and provides inexpensive Internet access to low-income neighborhoods in 70 counties around the world (via Science in the News).
“If you’re going to go back to nuclear energy, you’re going to have to advance the .” Commerical interest is high enough that the Department of Energy is opening up the Idaho National Laboratory Advanced Test Reactor to university researchers. The reactor time won’t cost anything, but scientists will have to publish the results of their experiments (via Science in the News).
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