Archive for the ‘Biotechnology, Bioengineering and Life Sciences’ Category

UALR Research Scientists Featured in The Economist

The Economist ran this piece on the work of UALR’s Mariya Khodakovskaya and Alex Biris involving carbon nanotubes and their use in promoting faster food growth in certain situations.

 

Innovation and the Happiness Quotient

What do we need to make us happy? Live Science has taken up this rhetorical question, and ranked the “happiest” states…Is there a connection between the amount of innovation a state produces and the happiness quotient of its people?

 

Techpreneurship: George Rathmann – Biotech Pioneer

In 1980, George and a few other intrepid techpreneurs and research scientists jumped out of their corporate jobs and academic positions to create a new kind of company…

 

Arkansas Patent of the Month

Arkansas saw six patents issued this past week, which represents a 2009 weekly high.