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University of Basel Delivers First Biological Implants for Treatment of Cartilage Lesions and Osteoarthritis in Humans

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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The Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel, today announced that it delivered the first surgical procedure to treat Osteoarthritis (OA) in humans.

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  • The Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel, today announced that it delivered the first surgical procedure to treat Osteoarthritis (OA) in humans.
  • Chondrocytes are the cell building blocks for cartilage and the University of Basel team is using them to grow new cartilage.
  • Expanding beyond focal lesions six years ago, the University of Basel team treated two patients with advanced knee OA – patients who had been scheduled for knee joint replacement.
  • The team at the University of Basel are providing folks like us with new hope.

Life Science Washington Institute Announces 2023 Entrepreneurial Achievement Award Winner

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Friday, October 27, 2023
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Life Science Washington Institute (LSWI) , a Life Science Washington affiliate focused on supporting early-stage companies and entrepreneurs in Washington state, announced Dr. David Younger, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of A-Alpha Bio, as the winner of the Entrepreneurial Achievement Award.

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  • Life Science Washington Institute (LSWI) , a Life Science Washington affiliate focused on supporting early-stage companies and entrepreneurs in Washington state, announced Dr. David Younger, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of A-Alpha Bio, as the winner of the Entrepreneurial Achievement Award.
  • “Since WIN graduate A-Alpha Bio was formed in 2017, David has continued to lead it to new highs,” said Richard Giersch, Executive Director of Life Science Washington Institute.
  • “Winning the 2023 Entrepreneurial Achievement Award is an enormous honor for Randolph and me — and for the entire A-Alpha Bio team,” Younger said.
  • Hear more from A-Alpha Bio and other WIN participants in a Life Science Washington video: https://vimeo.com/873842986

Nonprofit University Receives National Science Foundation Grant to Improve Undergraduate Biology Instruction Through Art

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Thursday, September 21, 2023
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- National University (NU)—a non-profit, Minority Serving Institution of over 40,000 students with a focus on working adults, educators, parents and current and former members of the military—today announced that it has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support a new academic research project seeking to improve how biology is taught to college students. Biology professor Michael Maxwell, Ph.D. will serve as the principal investigator for a three-year, $400,000 grant-funded project to explore the cognitive and academic benefits of art-enhanced instruction in biology, working in collaboration with faculty at other universities across the country.

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  • The project — "Biology Through Art: An Innovative, Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Biology" — will insert art instruction within the traditional biology curriculum.
  • The NSF-funded project grew out of the art infusion Maxwell has used in his biology classes for the past four years.
  • Students received in-person and online art lessons from art instructors and, at the conclusion of class, displayed their artwork at local art museums.
  • The two other co-principal investigators on this grant are Kristy Forsgren, Ph.D., an associate professor of biology at California State University, Fullerton; and Jennifer Landin, Ph.D., an associate professor of biology at North Carolina State University.

A-Alpha Bio Raises $22.4M in Series A2 to Scale Protein-Protein Interaction Data Platforms and Accelerate Internal Pipeline Development

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
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SEATTLE, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A-Alpha Bio, a synthetic biology and machine learning (ML) company that measures and engineers protein-protein interactions, today announced a $22.4M Series A2. The round was led by previous investor Perceptive Xontogeny Ventures, with strong support from Madrona and other existing investors. Breakout Ventures joined the round as a new investor, and Lindy Fishburne, Managing Partner at Breakout Ventures, will join the board as an observer.

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  • The round was led by previous investor Perceptive Xontogeny Ventures, with strong support from Madrona and other existing investors.
  • The funding will enable further development of the company's AlphaSeq and AlphaBind platforms and accelerate their oncology-focused internal pipeline.
  • These collaborations underscore the flexibility of A-Alpha's platforms to address a broad range of complex biological challenges, contributing to the development of next-generation therapeutics.
  • Innovating at the intersection of wet lab and computation, A-Alpha Bio is leveraging their synthetic biology and ML platforms, AlphaSeq and AlphaBind.

Lab-Aids Partners with Michigan State University to Publish Connected Mathematics4

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023
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Michigan State University and Lab-Aids today announced an exclusive partnership to publish the fourth edition of the Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) curriculum.

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  • Michigan State University and Lab-Aids today announced an exclusive partnership to publish the fourth edition of the Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) curriculum.
  • Developed at Michigan State University with support from the National Science Foundation, CMP is widely used in middle grades classrooms across the United States and several foreign countries.
  • "We are elated to partner with Michigan State University who has spent the past thirty years proving this approach also works best for students in mathematics."
  • CMP's guiding philosophy has been that students can make sense of mathematics if the concepts and skills are embedded within contextual problems.

Government of Canada invests in high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research to support world-leading innovation

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
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That is why the Government of Canada is there to support research teams pushing the boundaries of innovation.

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  • That is why the Government of Canada is there to support research teams pushing the boundaries of innovation.
  • Today, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, and the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health, announced more than $200 million in support for Canadian-led interdisciplinary, international, high-risk and high-reward research through the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF).
  • First, the NFRF 2022 Transformation competition is funding six large-scale, interdisciplinary research projects that address major challenges.
  • Since 2016, the government has provided more than $16 billion in new resources to support science and research.

Quantum Computing Inc's Wholly Owned Subsidiary QI Solutions Celebrates World Quantum Day at the Arizona Quantum Initiative's Inaugural Workshop

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Friday, April 21, 2023
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LEESBURG, Va., April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Computing Inc. (NASDAQ: QUBT), ("QCI" or the "Company"), a first-to-market full-stack photonic-based quantum computing and solutions company, today announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, QI Solutions (QIS), which focuses on federal projects, celebrated World Quantum Day with members of the University of Arizona's Research Innovation and Impact (RII), Tech Launch Arizona (TLA), and the Center for Quantum Networks (CQN) at the Arizona Quantum Initiative's (AQuI) Inaugural Workshop last week.

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  • LEESBURG, Va., April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Computing Inc. (NASDAQ: QUBT), ("QCI" or the "Company"), a first-to-market full-stack photonic-based quantum computing and solutions company, today announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, QI Solutions (QIS), which focuses on federal projects, celebrated World Quantum Day with members of the University of Arizona's Research Innovation and Impact (RII), Tech Launch Arizona (TLA), and the Center for Quantum Networks (CQN) at the Arizona Quantum Initiative's (AQuI) Inaugural Workshop last week.
  • Beginning April 12th, AQuI's workshop featured guest speakers from Raytheon, the University of Oregon, and Northwestern University, who discussed topics ranging from quantum phenomena for the information era to entanglement-enhanced optomechanical sensing.
  • The event focused on the novel applications of quantum science within the fields of biology, astronomy, and machine learning.
  • For additional information on the company's suite of solutions, please visit our website or contact our team directly.

APRU Appoints Professor Thomas Schneider as New Chief Executive

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Thursday, February 2, 2023
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The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) announced today that it had appointed Professor Thomas Schneider as its new Chief Executive, effective January 1, 2023.

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  • The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) announced today that it had appointed Professor Thomas Schneider as its new Chief Executive, effective January 1, 2023.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230202005513/en/
    In announcing the appointment, APRU Chair and Chancellor of UCLA Professor Gene D. Block said, “Professor Schneider will bring considerable skills, knowledge, and experience to his new role, and I am confident that he has the ability to lead APRU into its next phase.
  • A native of Germany, Professor Schneider studied at the University of Zurich, the University of Basel, and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris.
  • Professor Schneider was selected after an extensive global search by the APRU Search Committee led by Professor Rocky Tuan, Vice-Chair of APRU and Vice-Chancellor and President of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and search partner Perrett Laver.

Dr. Frank Wilczek Receives 2022 Templeton Prize

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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
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As the 2022 Templeton Prize laureate, Dr. Wilczek will participate in several virtual and in-person events, including a 2022 Templeton Prize event in the fall, where he will deliver a Templeton Prize lecture.

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  • As the 2022 Templeton Prize laureate, Dr. Wilczek will participate in several virtual and in-person events, including a 2022 Templeton Prize event in the fall, where he will deliver a Templeton Prize lecture.
  • More information on Dr. Frank Wilczek, his statement on accepting the Prize, a statement by Heather Templeton Dill on the awarding of the Prize, and information on the 51 previous Templeton Prize Laureates, are available at www.templetonprize.org/2022
    Follow the Templeton Prize on Twitter using @TempletonPrize and #TempletonPrize2022.
  • Watch and embed a video featuring Dr. Frank Wilczek on the Templeton Prize YouTube channel , where you will find additional videos with information on the Templeton Prize.
  • The Templeton Prize is awarded by the three Templeton philanthropies: the John Templeton Foundation, based in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and by the Templeton World Charity Foundation and Templeton Religion Trust, based in Nassau, The Bahamas.

Researchers Discover New Model for "Global" DNA Repair

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Wednesday, March 30, 2022
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NEW YORK, March 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Two studies provide a radically new picture of how bacterial cells continually repair damaged sections (lesions) in their DNA.

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  • Given that damaged DNA can result in detrimental DNA code changes (mutations) and death, cells evolved to have DNA repair machineries.
  • Widely accepted work, including studies that led to a 2015 Noble Prize , had argued that TCR played a relatively small role in repair because it relied on a putative TCR factor that made only a marginal contribution to DNA repair.
  • A parallel process, global genome repair (GGR), was assumed to scan and fix most of DNA independent of transcription.
  • Both processes were thought to set the stage for nucleotide excision repair (NER), in which a damaged stretch of DNA was snipped out and replaced by an accurate copy.