Bear Cub grants foster entrepreneurship

WUSTL Record - Jung-Tsung Shen, PhD, is one of five WUSTL scientists recently awarded a Bear Cub grant. Shen is developing a photonic switch, pictured on his computer screen, that is much faster, smaller and more energy efficient than other switches now used to support broadband communications.  Read More

OPKO Health acquires Prolor Biotech for $480 million

HAARETZ.com - The Israeli biomedical company Prolor Biotech has been sold to OPKO Health for $7 a share, giving the company a value of $480 million, both companies announced Wednesday. Although a final agreement was signed, the transaction is still subject to certain conditions, including the approval from the shareholders of both companies. Read More

Injectable Electronics Light Up A Brain

Discovery News - Making electronic implants for the body is hard to do: tissue is delicate and stiff components can irritate it. Then there’s getting those implants into the relevant organ without invasive surgery.  To help solve these problems, John A. Rogers, a materials science professor at the University of Illinois, and Michael Bruchas, an anesthesiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, built an electronic LED device so tiny it can be injected into delicate tissue, such as in the brain, without harming it. The experiment appears in this week’s issue of the journal Science. (WUSTL Ref. 012955)  Read More