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Infection mimicry enhances humoral and cellular immune responses to flu vaccine. Silk microneedle patches achieve influenza vaccine release for 2 weeks in mice.
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While most of the quantum computing world is focused on achieving fault tolerant computing – some day – with intermediate applications for NISQ (near intermediate scale quantum) systems emerging along the way, Zapata Computing is taking a different approach.
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CFS shares that its nearing a technological milestone that could take the world a step closer to fusion energy, which has eluded scientists for decades.
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VC darling Form Energy’s unproven path to market could become a model.
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Mariana Matus & Newsha Ghaeli of Biobot Analytics were recognized as two of the 50 emerging female tech leaders to watch in 2021.
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Form Energy has built an inexpensive battery that can discharge power for days using one of the most common elements on Earth: iron.
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Hedron (formerly Analytical Space) won a $26.4 million contract to develop and launch six cubesats and two hosted payloads to begin establishing the Fast Pixel Network for optical communications.
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Venture capitalists are betting that technology from startup Cellino Biotech Inc. will help enable a host of diseases to be cured through stem-cell therapy.
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Cellino Biotech has concluded a $16 million seed financing round that will further advance technology that ultimately seeks to generate autologous induced pluripotent stem cells at scale.
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Boston Metal, which previously raised $20 million back in 2019, uses a process called molten oxide electrolysis (“MOE”) to make steel alloys — and eventually emissions-free steel.
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In a society where speed is of the essence, startups are tackling large, urgent problems that quick fixes can’t solve.
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The Engine has completed a $230-million funding round, including Harvard as an important new partner in the venture, and bringing its total capital commitments to $435 million.
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The Engine has raised $230 million toward the firm’s second fund, which on top of the firm’s first fund brings it to a total of $435 million under management.
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During a year when venture capital firms are chasing hyped software and artificial intelligence startups more than ever, Harvard University is joining MIT to invest in less-sexy — and research heavy — companies aiming to fix more existential problems.
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The Engine has raised $230 million in its second round of funding, and will begin making investments in additional startups focused on conceiving and commercializing solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
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WoHo (short for “World Home”) is trying to rethink how to construct a modern building by creating more flexible “components” that can be connected together to create a structure.
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New peer-reviewed papers predict SPARC, a compact fusion device designed and built by Commonwealth Fusion Systems and MIT will achieve net energy from fusion.
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Zapata Computing has released software designed to make it easier for companies to use algorithms invented for quantum computing to improve business processes.
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At WIRED25, Arlan Hamilton and Katie Rae shared their insights on investing in companies that help humanity, and what's stopping other organizations from doing the same.
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Michael Kosta talks to Biobot Analytics co-founder Newsha Ghaeli about her company's national campaign to fight America's coronavirus pandemic by studying samples of human excrement.
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Sericulture startup Mori raises $12m Series A to preserve food with silk.
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The Engine had companies working on COVID-related research, and continued to stay open as an essential business during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Katie Rae shares that The Engine is “rewriting some of our policies to be more proactive, to hold ourselves to account there” and holding open forums with its community of founders.
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About 400 U.S. wastewater-treatment facilities have turned to Biobot Analytics for help assessing the pandemic’s prevalence.
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Quaise developed a millimeter wave drilling technology to access deep geothermal energy and raised $6 million in seed funding.
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Mori (formerly Cambridge Crops) develops an edible, imperceptible coating that might replace plastic packaging to preserve meats and produce.
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Biobot has been gathering wastewater from around the country and analyzing it for the coronavirus.
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With coronavirus testing still lagging behind targets, health officials are searching for other ways to assess the spread of the outbreak. One possibility? Looking at what we flush.
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Minnesota utility Great River Energy will use new storage technology from the Bill Gates-backed startup to replace coal power with dispatchable wind.
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Dr. Mariana Matus, co-founder and CEO of Biobot, joins “Squawk Alley” to discuss how her company is testing wastewater to track the spread of coronavirus.
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