With support from FAPESP, the São Paulo startup is developing more efficient strategies to combat pathogens that threaten citrus farming; the technology will be presented at VivaTech in France.

Startup supported by FAPESP develops promising sustainable solution from native flora; angico biotissue will be presented at VivaTech in France.

Kanvas Biosciences was launched through the Center for Life Science Ventures with technology licensed through the Center for Technology Licensing.

A recent gathering united emergency managers from the Texas Department of Emergency Management, Harris County’s and the City of Houston’s public health leaders, community clinics, tech partners from Meta’s Data for Good program, and researchers from Texas A&M. Together they explored AI models that can augment situational awareness during critical hours of crises. 

ACES will lead coordinated, efficient electrification technology and policy solutions at the nexus of water, transportation, buildings, and supporting power grid to secure energy systems in a range of communities,  and will also engage diverse stakeholders to ensure high-efficacy solutions, reducing time and risk for communities while accelerating impact.  

The Center for Community-Driven Assistive Technologies (CDAT) aims to positively impact the lives of people with disabilities and older adults by creating and evaluating novel assistive technologies employed across a lifespan. The center aims to transform the lives of people with physical, cognitive, behavioral/emotional, sensory and developmental disabilities through interdisciplinary research and cutting-edge emerging and existing assistive technologies.

A new conservation area, larger than New York City and Los Angeles combined, has been declared in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. This region is home to incredible biodiversity, stewarded by the Indigenous peoples who live there. Illegal logging and gold mining has threatened both the wildlife in the area and these communities' way of life. But after more than a decade of work from an international team of scientists, community leaders, government officials, and more, the Peruvian government has established the Medio Putumayo-Algodón as an official Regional Conservation Area.

Ahead of other eminent centres in Europe and Asia, the Singapore General Hospital has been conferred the status of Centre of Excellence by the International Accreditation System for Interventional Oncology Services (IASIOS), the first hospital in Asia and second in the world to attain this prestigious recognition.

Minnesota Sea Grant-supported researchers studying harmful algal blooms in the St. Louis River Estuary have made a breakthrough discovery: for the first time, they’ve linked a known cyanotoxin directly to a specific cyanobacteria species, Microcystis aeruginosa, in the Duluth-Superior harbor.