BioOrbit’s six-week Baby BOX-E mission achieved the largest-scale production of protein crystals in a space environment to date, supporting a route from hospital infusion to at-home injection for cancer therapies.
Tags: Space Biotechnology · Protein Crystallization · Cancer Therapeutics · In Space Manufacturing
An analysis of 2,041 partnered announcements and 13,384 co-announcement links finds that partnerships committing supply, data or clinical capacity carry 19.0 to 23.1 percent High momentum against 11.0 percent for distribution deals, while Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Amazon and Anthropic form the network’s hubs.
Tags: Partnership Ecosystem · Joint Ventures · Platform Hubs · Licensing Deals
A theoretical study from the University of Southern Denmark and collaborators finds that rapidly rotating black holes, or black holes under extra-dimensional theories, may overcome the thermodynamic barriers that normally prevent a split into two.
Tags: Black Holes · Quantum Gravity · Theoretical Physics · Astrophysics
An analysis of 2,144 product launches and updates from 2,030 companies in 80 countries finds that a launch carries weight only when it brings something with it, while US companies launch 63.5 percent of products at 7.9 percent High momentum against 20.7 percent for Germany.
Tags: Product Launches · Launch Momentum · Trade Shows · AIAgents
Heriot-Watt University and University of Greenwich researchers showed that a 75% fava bean and 25% potato protein blend forms a meat-like fibrous structure without gluten, with bitterness and astringency as the remaining barrier.
Tags: Plant Based Meat · Potato Protein · Fava Bean · Gluten Free
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology used a silver-ion AMI additive to modify the copper current collector, form a dual-layered interphase and gel the electrolyte after cell assembly, delivering 467 Wh kg-1 in a pouch cell.
Tags: Lithium Metal Battery · Anode Free · Solid State Battery · Energy Storage
A cross-stream analysis of 445 research and 114 corporate records finds that autonomous laboratories are the fastest-rising thread, from 10.5 to 15.5 percent of research, yet not one of six disclosed private rounds funds an autonomous laboratory as its product.
Tags: AIfor Science · Autonomous Laboratories · AIDrug Discovery · Materials Discovery
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Oxford researchers found that silencer and enhancer methylation in stored blood distinguished cancer risk years before diagnosis, with prostate cancer showing the strongest signal of the two cancers profiled
Tags: Cancer Research · Liquid Biopsy · Epigenetics · Early Detection
An analysis of 3,581 research records and 905 corporate records naming a regulator finds that most innovation needs no regulator, 59.2 percent of research, but where one is needed clearances and designations carry 33.3 and 50.0 percent High momentum and sandboxes 60.0 percent on five records.
Tags: Regulatory Pathways · Approval Readiness · INDPath · Medical Devices
European XFEL, DESY and the Universities of Hamburg and Tokyo used a four-reflection Kirkpatrick–Baez mirror system to focus 300-attosecond hard X-ray pulses to a nanometre-scale spot, moving the constraint from generating pulses to delivering them.
Tags: Attosecond Science · XRay Physics · Ultrafast Science · Photonics