WRAL Tech Wire

Scale Finance expands in Triad

Scale Finance, a provider of chief financial officer and controller services, is expanding its operations in the Triad.

Many money lessons learned – the hard way

Analysis: What can you learn from the financial meltdown? A great deal. Here are just a few pointers: Knowledge, diversification, risks, age.

Scientists find first immune responses to HIV infection are ineffective

UniversityTech: Federally funded study’s results could prove helpful in creating an effective vaccine.

Charlotte Biotechnology Conference to feature N.C. Research Campus

It hasn't officially opened yet, but the N.C. Research Campus is being billed by the Charlotte Biotechnology Conference as the "epicenter" of biotech research, commercialization and collaboration in the Charlotte region.

Veteran life science exec to chair PhaseBio board

UNC Chapel Hill, Emory receive CDC funding to launch public health preparedness centers

Seven centers will focus on emergency response capabilities.

Duke scientists pursue potential blood test for cardiovascular disease

Partnering with California firm, researchers indentify 14 genes connected with deadly killer. Test could not only identify presence of disease but also severity.

Drug discovery firm Trana to commercialize screening technology targeting staph

Backed by N.C. Biotech Center, Cary-based startup says testing could lead to development of anti-infectives.

Wake Forest takes ‘lab-on-bead’ approach for drug discovery with Biotech Center backing

Nanotechnology could lead to faster chemical screening process. N.C. Biotech Center is providing funding to help project.

NCSU takes crabbing to a new locale – farmers’ ponds

UniversityTech: Researchers turning freshwater ponds into blue crab farms.

N.C. BioNetwork to fund National Center for Biotechnology Workforce

Community College biotech worker training program will provide $200,000 in support to keep Forsyth Tech-based center going. It had lost federal funding.

Looking for leadership in time of crisis

Innovation Exchange: Upcoming ‘Security, Threats & Risk’ conference will explore variety of threats we face.

Wake Forest spins off medical device startup focused on catheter technology

Venture stats ‘look grim,’ peHub warns – Dollars, deals down; early-stage deals dip

Plus, in news that should concern startup entrepreneurs, VCs making deals are flocking to existing portfolio firms.

RTI wins contracts worth up to $7.1M for nanotech energy project

Triangle researchers, partners to explore how thermoelectric materials could covert wasted heat to electricity.