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Say hello to Warp Drive Bio, stay tuned for details
This new company, Warp Drive Bio, is being funded by Sanofi and Third Rock Ventures, a biocoastal venture capital firm with a big footprint in Kendall Square. The only links on the Warp Drive Bio web...
View ArticleScience events in Boston, this week and beyond
What’s up this week? Supernovae, deep water drilling and Too Much To Know — the book. Also see our list of ongoing events, including the newly opened Geckos: Tails to Toepads exhibit at at the Museum...
View ArticleBoston science this week: Cannibalistic hordes and other gatherings
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View ArticleScience in Boston this week: Baby talk and fuel cells
Patricia Kohl, of the University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, is known for her work on how early exposure to language alters the brain. She comes to Harvard for two talks...
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Company scientist: It is too early to dismiss the predictive power of the...
Knome, Inc, a Cambridge, Massachusetts company, is famously known for sequencing the genome of hard-living rocker Ozzy Osbourne. Knome bills itself as “the human genome interpretation company” and is...
View ArticleScience events this week include beer halls and an omics meet
Monday Monday is “Nerd Nite” at the Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge “featuring Nerd-appropriate tunes by Claude Money” and a $5 cover charge. The lineup: Talk 1. “The Walking Death, Poison Apples, and...
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Gown v. Gown: MIT students, faculty question Kendall Square plan
Kendall Square, once a bleak, industrial backwater, is now a Cambridge hot spot. A dense cluster of biopharma labs has attracted tech giants like Google, “luxury” apartment blocks and restaurants...
View ArticleMidsummer Nights’ Science: Missed the first two? Still two more
The Broad Institute’s Midsummer Nights’ Science is hugely popular. If you haven’t been able to make it, they’ve already got a video up on the first session– this one is on microfluids. You can catch...
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In Massachusetts, nine NIH-funded research projects in this year’s $10...
So far for 2012, the NIH has approved 3,810 grants in Massachusetts – some for new projects, others for familiar, ongoing research centers. The big money is going to genetics, HIV/AIDS and...
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Week of 8/17: The Ig Nobles and other Boston area events for the scicurious
Monday They abandoned the titles – such as “The Many Faces of Chocolate” — but they are still promoting the chemistry of cuisine at the Science and Cooking lectures at Harvard. This week sees a return...
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