June 2016 – The 2016 BIO conference in San Francisco had an interesting keynote speaker pair – Forensic Pathologist Dr Bennet Omalu and Actor Will Smith who played Dr Omalu in the film Concussion. The title of the keynote was Knowledge Precipitates Evolution. For those unfamiliar with the movie and the story, it is about…
June 2016 – At the Bio 2016 conference in San Francisco, the Netherlands Govt was discussing the new focus of their life science research programs. Shifting away from standard genomic and stem cell research, which competes heavily with the US based and Silicon Valley based life sciences community, they have chosen to focus on regenerative…
June 2016 – In a discussion with James Jordan of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), we talked about the directions in research and the shifts in university, industry and government roles in the development of medial solutions. The role of the development environment has changed based on the limited number of venture capitalists in…
February 4, 2014, Photonics West Conference, Nano/BioPhotonics, San Francisco—Min Gu from Swinburne University presented his efforts in direct laser writing (DLW) to create materials that mimic biological materials. This construction can supply new characteristics to existing materials. In the biological world, many organisms have color, but the colors are not pigmentation. The colors are due…