In recent years, the ground-breaking industry of immunotherapy has come to the forefront of cancer treatment. Though still not as commonly used as chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, immunotherapy aims to make tumors an easy target for the body’s own self-defense mechanisms, thus producing less serious side effects. One limitation, however, is that immunotherapy treatments typicallyRead more
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NSIV Newsletter – May 2019 Find out more about NSIV Member Spotlight – TriBiotica New NSIV Member – Radical Plastics What’s New & Keeping up with NSIV Staff What’s Happening Around the North Shore & Boston Read the newsletter in your browser or as a PDF. Read more
Harvest Yeast Technologies delivers proprietary and novel yeast strains to the ethanol industry. A member of NSIV for the past year, Harvest Yeast is now expanding operations this month into a new facility in Gloucester that will supply materials for customer testing. They will remain one of NSIV’s cleantech members. Their stated mission is toRead more
NSIV Newsletter – April 2019 Find out more about: NSIV Member Spotlight – Harvest Yeast Technologies New NSIV Member – Climatics Our Companies are Making News What Happening Around the North Shore & Boston Read the newsletter in your browser or as a PDF.Read more
NSIV Newsletter – March 2019 Find out more about: NSIV Member Spotlight – See Yourself Health Chris Ilsley – BBJ Op Ed SPARK Program Hosted by NSIV North Shore Chamber Visits New Lab Equipment from Andersen Products Our Companies are Making News What Happening Around the North Shore & Boston Read the newsletter in your browser orRead more
In 2015, Dr. Suzanne Mitchell received a $3.5M research grant to test the efficacy of virtual reality in helping patients manage their diabetes. This was the genesis of See Yourself Health, a startup utilizing online social gaming to help patients live healthier lives with type 2 diabetes. See Yourself Health is an explorable 3D environmentRead more
NEHC, the New England Hydropower Company, was started in 2012 in response to an overlooked market sector within the renewable energy hydropower industry. “I was looking to do something new and innovative in renewable energy,” CEO Michael Kerr explains. “During my research I came across the Archimedes hydro-screw turbine. It’s a piece of generating equipmentRead more
NSIV Newsletter – February 2019 Find out more about: NSIV Member Spotlight – New England Hydropower IVIVA Adds a Senior Scientist NSIV By the Numbers seqWell in the News A Cool Piece of History Read the newsletter in your browser or open it as a PDF.Read more
NSIV Newsletter – January 2019 Find out more about: NSIV Member Spotlight – Lariat Biosciences Virtech Bio Graduates Fall Interns Present Yankee Swap In the News Read the newsletter in your browser or open it as a PDF.Read more
Lariat Biosciences Spotlight It is no surprise that development investments into liquid biopsies has surged recently. They offer easily repeatable, noninvasive genetic characterization of cancers, even informing personalized treatment for later stage disease. However, the approach has traditionally been limited to advanced cancer; the challenge of detecting vanishingly small numbers of biomarkers thwarts its usageRead more