ImmunRx built from CU research
Manipulating the body’s immune system may help it battle tumors and infectious disease. That’s the early result from the laboratory of Ross Kedl, assistant professor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Kedl has joined forces with professors from Dartmouth Medical School to form ImmunRx LLC, with the help of CU’s technology transfer office.
The company was founded more than a year ago in an effort to commercialize Kedl’s efforts, but with no formal employees, ImmunRx primarily exists on paper. The company is working to license Kedl’s research from CU and find financial backers.
“We’re gathering the data we need to convince investors,” Kedl said. “In nine months to two years we’re looking at raising capital.”
While scientists have done a good job developing vaccines for certain infections, such as smallpox, Kedl explains there’s potential to create vaccines for chronic conditions such as hepatitis and solid-tumor cancers. Through the stimulation of certain molecular responses in the body, stronger immunities can develop, he said.
Router so fast, it’s ahead of its time
While most people are still figuring out Wi-Fi, along comes 802.11n, a faster wireless standard that transmits data up to four times as fast as the current Wi-Fi standard, 802.11g, and up to 20 times the speed of the earlier 802.11b.
Netgear’s WNR834B wireless router, which costs $179, is best for transmitting large files around a closed network. For example, a business with the new router would notice a considerable speed improvement when sending data to and from office computers. The router’s speed will have little effect on standard Web browsing.
The router and accompanying wireless notebook card, the WN511B ($129), are available now online and at most retailers. One caveat that has to be considered is that, as with 802.11g before it, Netgear and other manufacturers are releasing routers and wireless cards before the 802.11n standard has been officially ratified by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
-John Biggs,
The New York Times
