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Fly to the Moon via Dorchester

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

The JFK Library’s WeChooseTheMoon web site has started recreating the launch that put two men on the moon — if, in fact, that did happen. NASA just admitted it lost the original tapes.

So far, there’s not a lot happening on the site, other than the countdown to launch. Starting at 9:32 this morning — 40 years to the minute from the launch — you can follow the events of the launch on the site and at three twitter feeds. Aside from dinner with the president, so far the tweets aren’t much more exciting than the tweets of anybody else who may or may not be pretending to visit the moon:

Preparation for first lunar landing still on schedule.
3:54 PM Jun 27th from web

Apollo Program director just approved color TV coverage of our flight.
11:38 AM Jun 13th from web

Still stuffed from last night.
9:34 AM Jun 11th from web

Dining at White House tonight with crew from Apollo 10. And the President.
9:34 AM Jun 11th from web

Neil, Buzz and Mike are ready to go the Moon.
9:34 AM Jun 11th from web

T-Minus 36 days 22 hours to launch.
9:00 AM Jun 9th from web

After the jump, check out NASA’s restored video of the landing. (more…)

NewsFlash Roundup: Best biotech cities listed, drug patent protection changes

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

In today’s NewsFlash roundup, Lowell stands alone for biotech, a Senate committee approves longer drug patent protection and Oxigene raises $10 million. 

MBC, MassEcon rates cities, towns for biotech; Lowell ranks highest

Among the ratings, Lowell achieved the sole platinum level; Chelmsford, Marlborough and Somerville received silver ratings; and Newton, Hatfield and Norfolk received bronze ratings. In total, MBC and MassEcon have rated 51 communities since the BioReady Communities Campaign was launched in Massachusetts in 2008.

Senate committee pushes 12-year bio patent limit

This week, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted to approve a 12-year data exclusivity clause, giving biotechnology companies 12 years of drug patent protection and preventing generic drug makers for 12 years from copying the drugs and selling cheaper versions. Despite President Obama’s backing of a seven-year exclusivity limit, the HELP committee, led by U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., passed the measure 16 to 7.

Oxigene to raise $10M in stock offering

The offering consists of one share of common stock, at a price of $1.60 per unit, as well as a warrant to buy 0.45 shares of common stock at $2.10 per share and a warrant that starts on the issue date and ends in the latest of a few timeline options noted by the company. (more…)

MHT on NECN: Funding cuts may help local fuel cell cluster

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Staff writer Jackie Noblett dropped by New England Business Day to talk about cuts to fuel cell funding that may actually help local companies like Protonex and Lilliputian.

UMass Amherst’s George Huber takes ‘Grassoline’ on the road to Washington

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

UMass Amherst chemical engineering professor George Huber will explain his “Grassoline” research — gasoline and diesel fuel made from plants — to congressional staffers at a National Science Foundation event in Washington tomorrow. 

Last year, Huber won a UMass commercialization grant for development of a prototype reactor to demonstrate green gasoline production on a large scale. He has since spun a biofuel startup — Anellotech Inc. – out of the school’s Commercial Ventures & Intellectual Property Technology Development Fund. Anellotech is being incubated under the Mass Technology Transfer Center’s Virtual Incubator program. 

Huber also articulates his Grassoline vision in the latest Scientific American.

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