The monthly technology column featuring timely tech trends, tips and updates.
For inclusion
in tech talk: Please e-mail your
tech information as a press release to:
meg@sggdesign.com
Missouri Names Global Velocity
Tech Company of the Year
Global Velocity recently was named the 2008 Governor’s Technology Company of the Year, an award bestowed on a single Missouri-based company that displays exemplary technological innovation and a commitment to building business opportunity in the state.
Global Velocity’s networking capabilities allow organizations to perform real-time reporting, analysis and control of data in motion. The company offers customized web-based content security and revenue-generating services to large enterprises, government and service providers.
Global Velocity received the award from Gov. Matt Blunt at the annual Missouri Economic Development Conference in
Kansas City.
‘New’ Technique Could Make
Corn-To-Ethanol Process More
Energy-Efficient
Researchers at Washington University are proposing to borrow a process used in breweries and wastewater-treatment facilities to make corn ethanol more energy-efficient. The project is exploring the use of oxygen-less vats of microorganisms that naturally feed on organic waste produced from ethanol fermentation.
As bacteria break down waste, they release methane, which can be funneled back through the system. The process could cut down an ethanol facility’s use of natural gas by 50 percent.
Researchers say the process would serve as a short-term solution until more-efficient biofuel is commercially viable.
SLU Launches Avian Flu Study,
Seeks Volunteers
Saint Louis University School of Medicine seeks volunteers for one of the largest U.S. avian flu clinical trials in the United States. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the study will examine combining stockpiled and new vaccines.
Researchers want to know whether an FDA-approved vaccine created in 2004 can “prime” the body’s immune system for a second shot of a different vaccine that has not yet been given to people. The study centers on whether the first vaccine will trigger the production of antibodies against infection, allowing the second to boost the immune system.
Of the 500 volunteers being recruited nationally, more than 160 will be enrolled at SLU. For more information, call (314) 977-6333 or e-mail vaccine@slu.edu.
|
