New Ag Tool: Plant Hormone that Speeds Root Growth
Scientists have identified a plant hormone, beta-cyclocitral, that makes tomato and rice plant roots grow faster and branch more. The hormone could help farmers enhance crop plant growth. A molecule sold as a food additive…
Amazon Prime Boss Named CEO of Google-Backed IonQ
Peter Chapman has had a varied career. The son of an astronaut, Chapman started programming at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s famed Artificial Intelligence Lab at the age of 16. He founded a company, Level Systems, that…
Ultrafast Motion-Planning Chip Could Make Autonomous Cars Safer
Realtime Robotics’ motion-planning processor helps autonomous cars make better decisions About two years ago, we covered a research project from Duke University that sped up motion planning for a tabletop robot arm by several orders of…
With atoms and lasers, IonQ makes a quantum computing leap
Startup IonQ is taking a decidedly sci-fi approach to quantum computing, using atoms to store information, along with sophisticated lasers to retrieve and process that data. IonQ expects to deliver by year’s end its first…
Unravel Data, Application Performance Monitoring Firm, Raises $35M
Big-data application performance monitoring firm Unravel Data Systems Inc. today said it has raised $35 million in a round of funding led by Point72 Ventures. Harmony Partners and existing investors Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital and…
41 Companies Formed out of Big-3 Research Universities Last Year
Triangle-area research universities are producing over 40 companies per year – as well as thousands of inventions, patents and millions in licensing revenue. The good news for the local economy is that in all those…
Venture Day Showcased 8 Duke Start-ups in Biotech & Therapeutics
On Wednesday, May 1st, over a dozen venture capital firms gathered for the first Duke Venture Day at the newly refurbished Chesterfield Building in downtown Durham. The day-long event showcased therapeutic innovations currently coming out…
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Invests in Realtime Robotics, Inc.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it has taken an equity stake in Realtime Robotics, Inc. a U.S. technology startup that develops and commercializes motion-planning* technologies. Will use startup’s innovative technologies to improve performance and safety…
HARVEY Helps Move Bioprinted Organs Closer to Reality
Supercomputer code successfully models behavior of interwoven vasculature created with new 3D printing technique Bioprinting research from the lab of Rice University bioengineer Jordan Miller featured a visually stunning proof-of-principle — a scale-model of a…