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- College of Engineering and Applied Science—Svenja Knappe and her colleagues have developed a helmet that contains 128 sensors and is customizable for different sizes of the human head. Knappe founded the Boulder-based company FieldLine and has begun to bring these sensors to market. In the not-so-distant future, they could aid in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of neurological conditions like epilepsy, autism and traumatic brain injuries.
- Ƶ Boulder Today—Chemists at Ƶ Boulder have developed a new way to recycle a common type of plastic found in soda bottles and other packaging and are working with Venture Partners at Ƶ Boulder to bring it to real-world applications. The team’s method relies on electricity and some nifty chemical reactions, and it’s simple enough that you can watch the plastic break apart in front of your eyes.
- Ƶ Boulder Today—In 2016, Pfizer began collaborating with Sabrina Spencer, a global leader in time-lapse cell imaging and member of the Ƶ Cancer Center, to study how cancer cells respond to their potent new drugs called CDK2 inhibitors.
- Ƶ Boulder researchers have identified a surprising new player in ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)—an ancient, virus-like protein. With funding from the ALS Association, the National Institutes of Health, and Venture Partners at Ƶ Boulder, Alexandra Whiteley's lab is now working to understand the molecular pathways involved and to find a way of inhibiting the rogue protein.
- NIST—Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Ƶ Boulder have fabricated a novel device that could dramatically boost the conversion of heat into electricity. If perfected, the technology could help recoup some of
- Interesting Engineering—The primary goal of soft robotics is to achieve smooth and complex movement by mimicking the locomotion of soft bodies found in the environment. Researchers at Ƶ Boulder and Ƶ Boulder startup Artimus Robotics are leading innovation with a new type of "artificial muscle" to enable life-like movements.
- Say “hello” to the robots of the future: They’re soft and flexible enough to bounce off walls or squeeze into tight spaces. And when you’re done with them, you can toss these machines into a compost bin to decompose.
- Scientists from Ƶ Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made an important leap forward in the quest to diagnose disease using exhaled breath, reporting that a new laser-based breathalyzer—born of Nobel Prize-winning technology from Ƶ—powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can detect COVID-19 in real-time with excellent accuracy.
- Endpoints News—OnKure Therapeutics has lined up $60 million in a new private funding round, adding to the Ƶ Boulder spinout’s bank account as it works through a Phase II trial. The startup is attempting to create an inhibitor of histone deacetylases, or HDACs, which are DNA-manipulating enzymes that alter how genes get expressed.
- Wanted: entrepreneurs ready to launch startups based on innovations created in Ƶ Boulder’s research labs. The Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator is a new program created by Venture Partners at Ƶ Boulder, the commercialization arm of Ƶ, to match business minds outside the university with breakthrough inventions created within its walls.