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Pairwise Plants Raises $25m Funding to Speed up Crop Innovation
Mar 22, 2018Pairwise Plants has closed a $25m Series A funding round co-led by Deerfield Management and Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the venture capital arm of Monsanto to accelerate crop innovation. Pairwise is an agricultural company focused on ...
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Crown Announces Senior Management Changes
Feb 14, 2017Crown Holdings announced that Gerard Gifford has been appointed as executive vice president and chief operating officer effective 01 April 2017. In this new role, Mr. Gifford will continue to report to Timothy J. Donahue, President and ...
Tags: Crown Holdings, Beverage Packaging
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Driverless Cars Could End up Killing Passengers to Save Pedestrians
Jun 27, 2016A recent survey has raised the question of whose lives our autonomous cars will prioritise. What kind of ethical decisions will the first driverless cars make? It might be a funny question, but it's one with serious implications. If a ...
Tags: driverless cars, MIT, an'ethical'car
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Subwavelength Micro-Disk Lasers on Exact (001) Silicon Substrate
Jun 23, 2016Researchers in Hong Kong and USA have been working on producing optically pumped micro-disk lasers on exact (001) silicon [Yating Wan et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol108, p221101, 2016]. The team from Hong Kong University of Science and ...
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Achieve Superfoods Launches New Amaranth-Based Snack Bar
Jun 12, 2016Achieve Superfoods introduces the launch of SuperBar, the first amaranth-based snack bar available in the U.S. market. Joshua Aisen, Naval officer, recent Harvard graduate, husband, and father of three is the founder of the startup. How ...
Tags: Achieve Superfoods, Snack Bar
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Gallium Arsenide on V-Groove Silicon Template for Photonics and Electronics
Apr 15, 2016Researchers in Hong Kong and USA have developed indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot (QD) microdisk lasers directly integrated on silicon (Si) with performance comparable to the best reported for similar devices on gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
Tags: InAs quantum dot microdisk lasers InAs GaAs substrates
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Gene Editing Removes Major Barrier to Pig-to-Human Organ Transplant
Dec 29, 2015Thanks to a powerful new gene-editing technique, scientists have overcome a major hurdle for humans to receive life-saving organ transplants from pigs. In a paper in the U.S. journal Science this week, the researchers described using the ...
Tags: Gene Editing, Organ Transplant
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Film of Deng Xiaoping's US Visit Shown at Harvard Univ.
Oct 29, 2015A film depicting the story of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's 1979 historic visit to the United States has been shown at Harvard University. The 94-minute film, Mr. Deng Goes to Washington, is the first big-screen production chronicling ...
Tags: Film, Deng Xiaoping, Harvard University
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Director of China Association for International Economic Cooperation Cui Mingmo Invited to Attend the China & Globalization Roundtable Forum 2015
Oct 16, 2015On July 12, the “Global Community of Common Destiny and the New Thinking on the Development of Chinese Enterprises¬—China & Globalization Roundtable Forum 2015” held by Center For China And Globalization (CCG)opened in ...
Tags: International Economic Cooperation, Development of Chinese Enterprises
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Unboiling an Egg Demonstrates Technology Breakthrough
Sep 23, 2015Discovering how to unboil an egg has resulted in more than the perfect breakfast for one Australian academic. Professor Colin Raston from Flinders University has developed a machine called the ‘Vortex Fluidic Device’ which can ...
Tags: egg, breakfast, Vortex Fluidic Device, proteins
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Element Six Aims to Extend Its R&D LED to The Third Consecutive Year of High Growth
Jan 23, 2015Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) says that its Technologies Group experienced more than 20% growth in 2014, marking its third consecutive year of high growth. ...
Tags: synthetic diamond solutions, emerging markets, Electrical
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Ken Mackenzie to Retire From The Position of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Jan 23, 2015After 10 years at the helm of Amcor, Ken MacKenzie has decided to retire from the position of managing director and chief executive officer, Amcor chairman, Graeme Liebelt announced on 22 January. “I believe after 10 years in the ...
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A Harvard University Spinoff Unveiled a 3D Printer
Jan 21, 2015A Harvard University spinoff has unveiled a 3D printer that can print out devices with integrated electronic circuits. The Voxel8 3D printer uses two materials: PLA plastic for the body and enclosure of the device, as well as a highly ...
Tags: 3D printer, cloud-based software, Electrical
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Barry Snyder Joined Axalta Coating Systems as SVP and Chief Technology Officer
Jan 15, 2015Barry Snyder has joined Axalta Coating Systems as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Snyder will report to Axalta Chairman and CEO Charlie Shaver and be responsible for all of the company’s research and ...
Tags: VOC products, alcohol division, Construction
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CEA Announced That Top Executives Will Join The Brand Matters Keynote at CES
Dec 23, 2014The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced that top executives from Condé Nast, Fox Networks Group, Google, McDonald’s, and The Walt Disney Co. will join the Brand Matters keynote at the 2015 International ...