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 New name, new tenants for former Piedmont Triad Research Park

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has a new name for the research and development campus in Winston-Salem: The Wake Forest Innovation Quarter. Three new tenants sign on for space, all of whom either were started by or include former Targacept employees.

One Technology Place

 Report: Triangle has highest life science concentration cluster in US

Commercial buildings in the Research Triangle area are more likely to house life-science companies than anywhere in America, according to a study just released by a global real estate firm.

Triangle life sciences scorecard

 W-S firm Tengion is key to NC's emerging regenerative medicine industry

Analysis: Regenerative medicine holds the promise to coax cells in the body to create new tissue, which could become vessels and perhaps even entire organs. Dr. Anthony Atala's vision for the technology is that it creates something else - a new manufacturing base in North Carolina.

Tengion's technology platform

 Wake Forest biotech, business competition highlights Triad's life science innovation

Business school students from some of the country's top programs got a closer look at the life-sciences innovation coming out of the Triad this past weekend at the fourth annual Wake Forest University Biotechnology Conference & Case Competition.

Wake Forest Biotech Place

 Bringing Darth Vader to life - well, in 3D - at Issues forum

Chris Anderson, chief executive officer at 3D Robotics, created one of the highlights of the Emerging Issues Forum on stage by printing out a 3D version of Darth Vader. Is 3D manufacturing the dark or light side of future manufacturing?

Darth Vader - printed in real time in 3D

 Could printing body parts be in NC's manufacturing future?

Dr. Anthony Atala of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine says North Carolina;s advanced manufacturing future could include making body parts. But the state faces intense competition for the emerging business opportunity.

Dr. Anthony Atala

 Reports put a shine on job creation in North Carolina

A new report shows that despite our 9.2 percent unemployment rate still worse than the 7.8 percent national rate, North Carolina now leads the nation in the number of jobs added during the past three, six and 12 months. We're even number three in jobs added as a percent of population.

 RFP spells out five major goals for ultrafast network

In a request for proposal published Friday, the North Carolina Next Generation Network consortium and the Triangle J Council of Governments spell out five goals a new network would need to reach.

 Triangle group kicks off effort to build ultrafast network

The Triangle J Council of Governments in association with a consortium called the NC Next Generation Networks on Friday issued a request for proposal document that seeks private sector service providers who are interested in building a "next generation" communications network across the Triangle as well as Winston-Salem.

Broadband in Education

 Triangle universities, cities aim to create ultra-fast broadband network

A consortium of universities and municipalities representing the Triangle and Winston-Salem will publish a request for proposals on Friday that could lead to a project similar to Google Fiber to North Carolina. Blair Levin, a former FCC chief of staff, and the national organization he leads is supporting the effort.

NC NGN

 New NC firm to use regenerative medicine to create corneas

The new approach to cornea transplantation from Ocular Systems involves isolating cells from traditional donor corneas and using them to grow replacement corneal tissue in the lab.

 UNC, Duke, Wake Forest to offer undergraduate courses online

UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke and Wake Forest are teaming up with several other universities to offer online undergraduate courses for credit and that can be taken at a member university where a student isn't enrolled.

UNC, Duke, Wake Forest join Semester Online

 Tech accelerator Groundwork Labs, universities to offer 'camp'

"Underground Summer is a bridge from the excellent programs that the Universities have established," said John Austin, Director of Groundwork Labs, "This experience will enable the students to experience the broader entrepreneurial community in the Triangle."

Groundwork Labs

 Scientists restore muscle function with lab-engineered implants

According to new research from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, exercise is key to building a new kind of muscle-like implant. These implants can potentially repair muscle damage from injury or disease.

Regenerating muscle cells

 Wake Forest spinout wins $3.3M grant for radiation gel

Fast-growing Winston-Salem therapeutics developer KeraNetics has landed a $3.3 million federal contract to help commercialize a gel for treating nuclear radiation burns.

 Fla. medical chopper crash raises scrutiny

The crash of a medical helicopter in Florida comes as agencies have been looking at safety for the service nationally.

 Wake Forest 5th, Duke 19th on tech transfer licensing list

2010 was a bit of a bounceback year for U.S. technology transfer programs, as licensing income income inched up 3 percent to $2.4 billion, compared with the prior year.

 Pets, people win in regenerative health partnership

Analysis: Animals may get a new lease on life and health, while also helping in the development of human therapies. It's the upshot of a regenerative medicine partnership announced by officials of North Carolina State University and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

Growing organs in WFU lab

 NCSU, Wake Forest team up for regenerative medicine effort

The goal will be to translate laboratory research into new medical therapies. NCSU's Center for Collaborative Medicine and Translational Research will work together with Wake Forest's Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

 Regenerating tissues to heal damage is big market at the end of a long road

At Nagoya University's NU Tech conference, researchers presented a range of efforts to use cellular technology to help diseased organs repair themselves by growing new tissue.