Innovation

Digital Diagnostic's partnership is aimed at developing affordable healthcare to people in Saudi Arabia. CREDIT DIGITAL DIAGNOSTICS

Digital Diagnostics, Saudi Arabia-based healthcare firm partner

Digital Diagnostics — maker of IDx-DR, the first-ever FDA-cleared, fully autonomous AI system for the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy — is entering a strategic...
Wolf Carbon carbon dioxide hazardous material pipeline

‘Drafting error’ would have exempted projects from carbon dioxide pipeline restrictions

A draft of new legislation that would limit eminent domain for carbon dioxide pipelines erroneously included a provision that would exempt at least two...
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Coralville-based IntelliSee awarded $500,000 IEDA loan

IntelliSee, an AI-powered risk mitigation platform that improves upon the capability of existing surveillance cameras, was awarded a $500,000 Innovation Acceleration Propel loan. The Coralville...
Carbon dioxide pipeline farmers

New Iowa House bill would restrict eminent domain for carbon dioxide pipelines

The three carbon dioxide pipelines proposed in Iowa are “economic development” projects that do not deserve the full weight of eminent domain to complete...

Gov. Reynolds, IEDA announce $2M in Manufacturing 4.0 Funding

Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) announced on Wednesday, Feb. 15, that Iowa will invest an additional $2 million in...
The Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL) is working with DARPA to improve AI capabilities in aeria combat. CREDIT UNIVERSITY OF IOWA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

UI flight expert briefs DARPA on AI in aerial combat

Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL) director and University of Iowa industrial engineering professor Tom "Mach" Schnell briefed national security leaders on a project seeking to...
Michael Welsh, pictured in 2022, has researched mechanisms and treatment of cystic fibrosis for decades. CREDIT UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

UI researcher wins global biomedical science prize

University of Iowa researcher Dr. Michael Welsh will receive the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences for discoveries leading to the creation of cystic fibrosis...
IDT has launched the Collab Network Program to ramp up scientific discovery. CREDIT IDT

Integrated DNA Technologies debuts collab network

Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has launched the Collab Network Program, an inaugural program between next generation sequencing (NGS) providers. According to a press release, the...
ADM's Cedar Rapids plant. CREDIT CBJ

ADM takes steps to protect South American ecosystems

Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) company, recently named a best-managed company in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal, has agreed to strengthen its no-deforestation policy. In response...
Monte Shaw Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

Ethanol executive: Carbon capture might be ‘life or death’ for producers

An increasing demand for low-carbon fuels will imperil ethanol producers unless there is widespread adoption of equipment to capture emissions from ethanol plants, the...

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