Not exact matches
This year those
breakthroughs include tools for reprogramming living cells and rendering lab animals transparent; ways of powering electronics with sound waves and saliva; smartphone screens that correct for the flaws in your vision; Lego - like atomic structures that could
produce major advances in superconductivity
research; and others.
Modeled on the legendary Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which spearheaded many important technological advances, ARPA - E was established under the America COMPETES Act and given $ 400 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the stimulus package, to, in DOE's words, «pursue
breakthroughs that could fundamentally change the way we use and
produce energy.»
The
research group of Pascal Falter - Braun of the Chair of Plant Systems Biology at TUM together with colleagues from the USA and Japan now achieved a possibly decisive
breakthrough: DNA, which is much easier and cheaper to
produce, is printed instead of proteins and the protein arrays are subsequently «developed».
Led by BWH neurologists Howard L. Weiner, M.D. and Dennis J. Selkoe, M.D. — two of the world's most renowned experts in neurologic disease — the center aims to
produce breakthrough, life - changing
research to benefit patients confronting these devastating neurologic diseases.
In a packed room, Chu gave his trademark illustrated tutorial, leading from basic climate science through the disturbing implications of global energy trends and efforts by the Obama administration to stimulate energy innovation with
research hubs and dozens of grants for work on the frontiers of energy sciences that might
produce breakthroughs.
Finally, the
Breakthrough Institute has
produced excellent evidence that government subsidies for speculative technologies and
research over at least 35 years have played a role in the development of the energy boom's key technology enablers: 3 - D seismology, diamond drill bits, horizontal drilling, and others.