Incubators and R&D

Researchers studying mice say they have identified a gene that appears critical in preventing miscarriages. By Jacqueline Stenson Reuters Doctors have long been perplexed by the fact that in a normal pregnancy the mother’s immune…

Online collections by institutions may challenge the role of journal publishers Professors’ office computers hold a wealth of original content: research articles, data sets, field notes, images, and the like. Some of the material will…

Prairie survey Ten days of camping at a stretch. Awake with the birds before dawn and alert to the throaty call of leopard frogs at night. Sound like a dream job? In a way it…

Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute caught the eye of the business community when it recently lured Anthony del Campo from the private sector to head its technology-transfer program — the licensing of its budding technologies to…

N.C. State University wanted to recruit a rising star in fungal genomics from Clemson University three years ago and knew he wouldn’t come cheap. But where would the money come from? By: Dan Kane Raleigh…

Hatchling companies at the Montana Business Incubator will now have more room to spread their wings. MBI celebrated its newly remodeled space in the College of Business at Montana State University-Billings with an open house…

MISSOULA — New asbestos research presented at a two-day conference at the University of Montana centered on how tiny, javelin-shaped fibers of asbestos and other minerals cause disease and why some fibers seem to be…

In the first step in a long process, U.S. Rep. Dennis Rehberg, R-Mont., has obtained $6 million as part of the funding for the Butte-based Mariah pro ject. By the Montana Standard Staff — By…

Burn index Are forest fires burning hotter than they used to? What kind of restoration should be done in a burn site? Answers to these and other questions land managers face could come from a…

Steve Shaw, electrical engineering professor at Montana State University, was selected as one of 100 of the world’s top young innovators in a list compiled by Technology Review magazine, a magazine from the Massachusetts Institute…