Iowa Able Foundation announced it was awarded a $350,000 federal grant to support the organization’s accessible lending and education program for assistive technology. The one-year grant from the Administration for Community Living provides support to assistive technology alternative financing programs to help individuals with disabilities of any age in obtaining financial assistance for AT devices and […]
An Iowa City company has won a state grant to help it continue producing some unique models, reports Radio Iowa. Neil Quellhorst of Protostudios says the Iowa Economic Development Authority Board grant of $492,000 paid for a new 3D printer to print anatomically accurate body parts, including mimicking the material feel of a real organ. Quellhorst […]
The Center for Advancing Innovation, a global nonprofit that accelerates research commercialization, has launched the BRAIN RACE, an open, global innovation contest to advance high-impact inventions and solutions to defeat brain tumors. Individuals, multidisciplinary teams or existing startups may all participate in the contest, which aims to launch 15 or more startups to commercialize promising […]
Parasitic worms pose a major global health threat to humans and animals, but a major study that sequenced the genomes of scores of worms could lead to new and more efficient ways to treat illness, reports Iowa State University. ISU Professor of biomedical sciences Tim Day co-authored the study recently published in Nature Genetics. An […]