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...lighting technology on a silicon platform could "drive volume economics and mass market," says Mario Paniccia, director of Intel Corp.'s photonics technology lab. Researchers in business and academia are scrambling to create such flexible solar cells because existing solid silicon solar panels are heavy and unwieldy. Flexible, or conformal, solar cells could wrap around surfaces and pack easily for transport. A solar-cell liquid could even be painted...
That's where Keasling comes in. He's focusing his lab's work on producing synthetic artemisinin to drive down the price per dose to pennies. Keasling and his team at Berkeley have already worked out how to extract the genes responsible for making artemisinin and transplanted them into a harmless strain of E. coli. Now they're furiously working those 100-hour weeks to reroute the metabolic traffic in the microbe and produce oodles of artemisinin...
...pioneering as the lab work is the business triangle Keasling has forged linking the university; Amyris Biotechnologies, a company he co-founded; and OneWorld Health, a nonprofit drug company. "This is one of those 'only in Berkeley' stories," says Keasling, laughing. "No one is going to make any profit out of this." Berkeley, which owns the rights to Keasling's technology, has agreed to give it away for nonprofit use. The Amyris staff is working to commercialize the technology. OneWorld Health hopes to be manufacturing the drug within five years...
...centered attention” on the history of how scientific knowledge is produced—particularly experimentation, time, and technology in the physical and biological sciences.Brandt calls a website Schmidgen co-developed in Berlin “fascinating.” The site, The Virtual Laboratory, displays handwritten letters, lab notebooks, textbooks, and other historical documents and images related to the experimental life sciences.Schmidgen’s students also say they appreciate the cultural nuances of attending a course taught by a foreign professor. They say their professor’s experience with labs and institutes in Berlin enhances...
...students who have been yearning to stargaze in the southern hemisphere, work in a lab in East Asia, or do cross-cultural research in Cape Town, a new initiative at Harvard may be the answer. On Nov. 27, the Faculty Committee on Education Abroad and the Office of International Programs (OIP) announced the start of a new study-abroad program—a fund that will allow professors who have designed undergraduate excursions into the outside world to realize their plans. For the Faculty Innovation Fund Grant, professors from a variety of disciplines were challenged to devise trips abroad...