Biotech

Supporting deep tech start-ups led by women

Women TechEU is giving Europe’s female entrepreneurs a leg up in the deep tech industry. The winners of its last open call are getting financial and other support to scale up their deep tech innovations The fourth open call launched by the EU-funded Women TechEU(opens in new window) project to support women-led deep tech start-ups…

artificial intelligence, Biotech, femalefounders, Holland Greentech, startups, womentech

Could we live without pain?

Pain is unpleasant, and can be debilitating for some. The expert Rolf-Detlef Treede tackles the thorny reality of a pain-free life. “There are people that live without pain,” says Treede, a neurophysiologist at the University of Heidelberg. “They have been known for centuries to exist.” Insensitivity to pain, known as analgesia, can be caused by…

Biotech, Chronic Pain, Healthcare Innovation, IMI, Neuroscience, Nociception, Non-Communicable Diseases, PainCare

Boost for Digital India! oneM2M IoT standard to help underpin India’s smart cities

As India places renewed emphasis on IoT standardization in areas such the one M2M standard underlines the significance of standardized framework in helping to enable a smarter and more secure future The development of smart cities in India has been given a boost after the decision of the national government’s Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) in…

Biotech, india, smartcity, smarttechnology, TEC, technologynews

Smartphones may help detect diabetes

Researchers at UC San Francisco have developed a "digital biomarker" that would use a smartphone's built-in camera to detect Type 2 diabetes - one of the world's top causes of disease and death - potentially providing a low-cost, in-home alternative to blood draws and clinic-based screening tools Type 2 diabetes affects more than 32 million…