by AURP | Dec 15, 2020 | AURP Blog
Here Comes the Sun: Here Comes 2021! For those of us on the East Coast of the US in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter Solstice is at Dec 21 at 5:20 am EST, when the Sun reaches its southernmost point in the sky as part of the longest night of the year. But each day...
by AURP | Oct 22, 2020 | AURP Blog
On the Horizon: New Communities of Innovation; Billions of Dollars of New Investment Seventy-five years ago, Vannevar Bush, an electrical engineer who directed government research during the Second World War, authored Science—The Endless Frontier. His report called...
by AURP | Oct 2, 2020 | AURP Blog
The Economist Magazine, not known for idle puffery, called this ‘one of the most inspired pieces of legislation in the past half century’. The legislation? The Bayh-Dole Act. The 1980 Bayh-Dole Act helped to unlock the inventions in laboratories across the US that...
by AURP | Sep 24, 2020 | AURP Blog
Consider the lowly horseshoe crab. East Coast beach walkers can see these creatures, early in the morning, sometimes stranded upside down in the sand. It isn’t a crab, but more closely related to the spider family. Not well known is that the blood from horseshoe crabs...
by AURP | Aug 11, 2020 | AURP Blog
Two of the nation’s hottest COVID-19 topics is the need for the U.S. to ensure medical supply lines through domestic pharma and bio manufacturing plus maintaining our scientific expertise in bio innovations. Billions of dollars of funding for new vaccine production...