A new announcement last month from Monsanto Company could have tremendous impact in both agriculture and patent allocation for genetic modification of seeds for crop growth.  In an unprecedented move, Monsanto will provide royalty-free research licenses to academic, public and non-profit institutions (including large-scale farmers) for its recently issued patent... Read More

In many ways, we are living in a golden age of electronics and technological innovation, including science, medicine and the gadgets that comprise our daily lives. The average United States household had 24 electronic gadgets in 2011.  The downside to being so plugged in is an environmental catastrophe, both in... Read More

Patexia recently covered new NASA-based infrared camera technology that is being tested in operating theaters as a tool to help excise brain tumors with more precision and ease.  Now, new research out of Lancaster University, led by Dr. Francis Martin, and published in the journal Analytical Methods, is giving scientists... Read More

Around the world, 250,000 women die every year because of complications from pregnancy and childbirth, a leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in developing countries.  To put it in more stark terms, every minute of the day, 365 days a year, a woman dies somewhere... Read More

Lung cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer worldwide, in terms of both incidence and mortality, with 1.61 million new cases in 2008 and 1.38 million deaths.  According to the National Cancer Institute, in the United States, in 2012 (which is still not over), 226,160 new cases of lung cancer... Read More