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Pairwise Plants Raises $25m Funding to Speed up Crop Innovation

Mar 22, 2018

Pairwise 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 ...

Tags: Pairwise, Crop

Crown Announces Senior Management Changes

Feb 14, 2017

Crown 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

Monsanto Reaches Licensing Agreement with Broad Institute for Crispr System

Jan 10, 2017

Monsanto announced that it has reached a new global licensing agreement with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard for the use of the novel CRISPR-Cpf1 genome-editing technology in agriculture. The CRISPR-Cpf1 system represents an ...

Tags: Monsanto, Crispr System

China Is Facing Growth Deceleration

Dec 12, 2016

A slowdown in China is the greatest threat to the global economy, Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff told BBC in a curious interview in late September. "The [Chinese] economy is slowing down much more than the official figures show." As the ...

Tags: Chinese economy, global economy

Campbell Announces Management Changes in Its Fresh Division

Oct 24, 2016

Campbell Soup Company has appointed Ed Carolan as president for Campbell Fresh (C-Fresh). Carolan, 47, will lead the division that includes Bolthouse Farms beverages, salad dressings and carrots, Garden Fresh Gourmet salsa, hummus and ...

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Walmart Foundation Aims to Increase c in Growing Retail Industry Through an Investment That Strengthens Career Services Programs Nationwide

Sep 28, 2016

BENTONVILLE, Ark., Sept. 7, 2016 – As a next step in an effort to increase economic mobility of workers in retail and adjacent sectors in the U.S., the Walmart Foundation today announced 10 Workforce Development Boards (WDBs) across ...

Tags: Walmart Foundation, economic mobility, investment

Monsanto Reaches Licensing Agreement with Broad Institute on Key Genome-Editing Application

Sep 27, 2016

Monsanto Company has announced that it has reached a global licensing agreement for the use of the CRISPR-Cas genome-editing technology in agriculture with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The Broad Institute is a world leader in ...

Tags: Monsanto, global licensing agreement, Broad Institute

Driverless Cars Could End up Killing Passengers to Save Pedestrians

Jun 27, 2016

A 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

Subwavelength Micro-Disk Lasers on Exact (001) Silicon Substrate

Jun 23, 2016

Researchers 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 ...

Tags: Subwavelength, CMOS-compatible platform

Achieve Superfoods Launches New Amaranth-Based Snack Bar

Jun 12, 2016

Achieve 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

Fitbit to Host Capitvate Summit on Employee Wellness

Apr 21, 2016

Fitbit, Inc., will host its first annual Captivate Summit on June 7-9, 2016 in San Francisco, CA. The 2016 Captivate Summit will explore key topics around corporate wellness program design, employee engagement and ROI, as well as ...

Tags: Fitbit, Capitvate Summit

Gallium Arsenide on V-Groove Silicon Template for Photonics and Electronics

Apr 15, 2016

Researchers 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

Cold Showers Might Help Reduce Obesity, While Scientific Discoveries Challenge BMI Measure

Mar 18, 2016

Australia’s top medical news program made some startling revelations this week. The most surprising finding is that there is a 45% higher mortality risk for people with Body Mass Index (BMI) of 23-25 than for people with a higher BMI. ...

Tags: BMI, Cold Showers, Medical program, Scientific discovery

Gene Editing Removes Major Barrier to Pig-to-Human Organ Transplant

Dec 29, 2015

Thanks 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

Lumos Smart LED Helmets Improves Bikers Visibility on the Road

Nov 13, 2015

Bikers wearing Lumos Helmets can turn on the road without having to memorize hand signs, and avoid potentially being hit by confused motorists. A woman wearing Lumos Helmets. The front of the helmet is equipped with 14 white LEDs. (All ...

Tags: Lumos Helmets, LEDs

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