Apt in Biological Technology

Worldwide Center for Adult Stem Cell Education LLC Changes Name to 'The Repair Stem Cell Institute LLC'

..."Adult stem cells is a science that, unlike embryonic stem cells, is truly a reality TODAY and helping to save and improve patients' lives now. A more apt name, however, is REPAIR stem cells because they regenerate the body tissues for medical self-help repair using therapies that are already proven and ...

Many paths, few destinations: How stem cells decide what they'll be

...entiation can be made dramatically more efficient by choosing the right subpopulation of stem cells and stimulating them promptly, while they are most apt to differentiate. Im not doing anything complicated just using what nature already has, she says. But the findings also challenge biologists to c...

Researchers engineer new polymers to change their stiffness and strength when exposed to liquids

... at the VA's Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center, graduate student Kadhiravan Shanmuganathan, and Case Western Reserve University professors and apt investigators Dustin Tyler (biomedical engineering), Stuart Rowan (macromolecular science) and Christoph Weder (macromolecular science) have unveiled ...

Lowering the fear factor for entrepreneurs, intra-preneurs

...theyre used to drilling 10 holes and finding oil in one, Bomba said. In San Jose, Calif., one of the hotbeds of Silicon Valley, companies are far less apt to fear the competition, noted Paul Sheldon, holder of 17 patents and one-time finalist for Discover magazines Technological Innovation of the Year aw...

More Midwest Seed-Stage Life Science VCs

...ally invests in Missouri-based companies in the life sciences, health care and related information technology. It has investments in 11 companies: apt Therapeutics, Chlorogen, Divergence, Efficas, Everest, Inoveon, Metaphore Pharmaceuticals, Quick Study Radiology, Singulex, Stereotaxis and Symbiotics...

The Real World

... It's hard to argue about improvement. Motherhood, apple pie, the Packers, Badgers and continuous improvement all pretty much universal truths not apt to cause a fight after a few beers. Everyone seeks to improve. Not many of us choose to do things worse the next time. Einstein's theory of human natu...

Living the sweet life... in IT?

...ess formal, more immediate side of work, the daily interactions, the waxing and waning of relationships and power and attention. Like my friend, we're apt to not notice that informal side till things are way off the rails if then. It's enough to drive a techie nuts, all the curve balls and surprises t...

Fighting spam via blue frogs

...much so that species of non-poisonous frogs have adapted the blue poison frog's color as protective camouflage. Blue Security thinks the frog is an apt metaphor for spam fighting. The agent identifies links in unwanted e-mail, navigates to those links and begins filling out any forms it can find on th...

Control the community or just let go?

...d be open to the programmatic and marketing adaptations needed to improve upon those unanticipated applications. That advice may never have been so apt as in the case of Wetpaint, which today sends to beta an intriguing wiki for community communications. Wetpaint grew from the founders own need to fin...

An upside down view of the future

... the time winds sometimes so fierce that it difficult to walk against them. These winds blow like a southern hemisphere Mistral. They also make an apt metaphor for the type of climate in which businesses seem to be operating today. The onslaught of globalization, technology advances, and demographic ...

Sometimes, features can make a company

...id the compliments (thank you very much), there was a keen observation: that some of the companies debuted "features" rather than products. It's an apt enough description of some of the technologies on the DEMO stage. Yet I suspect there was criticism in the observation as well. A feature, one might a...