TechniScan Lands $2.8M NIH Grant
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By Linda Fantin, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 19--Utah-based TechniScan Medical Systems has been awarded a $2.8  million grant to perfect a breast cancer screening tool that could make the  exams painless and help radiologists distinguish between cancers and benign  masses.
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The US National Science Foundation has awarded a $1m grant to researchers in the US who want to put speech recognition on a chip, a move the project&#39;s proponents claim will revolutionise the way we communicate.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle has given a $43 million dollars grant to aid in the development of a genetically engineered form of a Chinese herbal drug that is thought to be effective in curing malaria.
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Purdue Research Foundation has licensed a technology to Bio Processing Technology Inc. for the development of a new environmentally friendly method to produce ethanol that also costs less than current methods.
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Indiana University has received a three-year, &#36;2.6 million grant to study genes that make soybean plants resist disease.
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Research to fight the global tuberculosis epidemic got a shot in the arm on Tuesday with $280 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for work to develop more effective vaccines, diagnostic tests and drugs.
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Worldwide research and development spending in the emerging field of nanotechnology should rise about 10 percent this year to &#36;8.6 billion, a research firm said on Monday.
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TUSTIN, Calif., Sept. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- In an apparent vote of confidence for development of Photon Thruster Formation Flight (PTFF) Spacecraft in ultra precise formations, the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) awarded a Phase II $400,000 grant to the Bae Institute.
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Massachusetts awarded the first loan from its newly created $25 million emerging technology fund to help Acusphere, a Watertown-based biotech company, renovate a Tewksbury building as a manufacturing facility. The granting of the $2 million loan brought Senate President Robert Travaglini, a Boston Democrat, back together with former House Speaker Thomas Finneran, who recently took a job as president of ...
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A project to build a digital camera of cosmic dimensions on a mountaintop in Chile has received a $30 million boost from a pair of software moguls and philanthropists.
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Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTEK) announced today that the U.S. Army  Research and Development Command Acquisition Center has awarded a $62  million Program Management, Integration Support contract for the U.S.
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Squid Labs' Saul Griffith is among 24 luminaries to be handed a MacArthur Fellowship -- a $500,000 award for innovators, more commonly referred to as the "genius grant."
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Scientists now have access to a genetic atlas of mouse neurons, courtesy of a $41 million project financed by the co-founder of Microsoft.
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A group of U.S. biomedical scientists has won a $750,000 NASA grant to design a mini mass spectrometer to aid in the search for life on Mars.
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The $1.8 billion facility will demonstrate a novel technology to fight global warming.
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HELSINKI, Finland -- The winner of a $1.2 million prize for his inventions in light and laser technology said Friday he will give away some of his money to promote research at universities and organizations that help developing countries.
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A $156 million grant for DNA sequencing at the Washington University School of Medicine is part of an effort to unlock the mystery of the origins of cancer within the body, university officials said Monday.