Overcoming the University-Industry Gap in Smalltown, PA
Translational research is the focus of a grant that is helping more than a dozen small- to mid-sized colleges in Central PA move innovation from the lab to the marketplace.
York County's Aptagen plans to continue growth in 2011
A cutting-edge medical research company outside of York expanded its offices earlier this year and is already running out of space.
Greater Reading KIZ challenges college students to create tech-oriented business ideas
The Greater Reading Keystone Innovation Zone is running a business idea contest for students from five colleges in Berks County. The only stipulations are that the businesses have to be for profit and must somehow focus on technology.
Scientists at Lock Haven and Penn State developing nanosensors to restore function to damaged nerves
Researchers at Lock Haven and Penn State universities are developing tiny implants that could restore sight, hearing and motion to those whose nerves were damaged by an injury or illness.
Program assisting PA companies establishing overseas presence receives federal recognition
Pennsylvania companies that want to do business overseas have a partner in state government. The state's Envoy program recently got an award from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
Bioscience companies across PA receive federal research funds to improve medicine, add jobs
Bioscience firms all over the Keystone State have been awarded grants and tax credits thanks to a federal program aimed at improving medicine and creating jobs.
SPECTACLE: Capturing the Spirit
Clarion dentist's bone growth technology in clinical trials
Clarion Research Group, has developed a bone grafting technology that's being tested in clinical trials. It prompts bones to grow faster, essentially by multiplying the number of stem cells and telling them to convert to bone cells.
CancerBeGlammed: Pittsburgh survivor creates site so others can be fashionable during, after illness
Pittsburgh-area writer, television producer and cancer survivor Lisa Lurie created CancerBeGlammed.com with Ellen Weiss Kander, who also found herself desperately seeking fashionable and functional garments and gear for her own recovery.
Teen biotech researcher presents her work to President Obama
Throughout high school, Raina Jain has studied a man-made bone substitute in a Lehigh University lab. She recently presented her research to President Barack Obama at the White House Science Fair.