Edward Wenger and Philip Eckhoff’s recent publication in the Malaria Journal, A Mathematical Model of the Impact of Present and Future Malaria Vaccines, studies the impact of potential malaria vaccines within the framework of the EMOD malaria model. This individual-based model couples a detailed description of the vector lifecycle with a comprehensive, mechanistic representation of [...]
Plasmodium is a genus of the Apicomplexan parasite, which was described in 1885 by Ettore Marchiafava and Angelo Celli and is known to cause malaria. There are 200 known species of Plasmodium, of which at least 11 species infect humans, while others infect other animals including reptiles, birds, rodents, and monkeys. The Plasmodium parasite has [...]
Ben Wilson, our Optical Tuberculosis Diagnosis Project Lead, recently presented at the Optics in the Life Sciences conference on the Big Island of Hawaii. The conference brought together optics experts from around the world whose work is helping to advance biological and medical research through the use of optical technologies. Ben’s presentation focused on our [...]
Water has lots of odd properties. Normally, we think of fluids as being less dense when they get warmer. Hot air balloon rides, for example, would be much less exciting if warmer things tended to sink. However, one of the weirder properties of water is that unlike most liquids, its density doesn’t always decrease with [...]
The EMOD program launched its second release of their malaria modeling software last week, just before convening its first annual EMOD Modeling Malaria Symposium. The first version of their software launched in September 2012 and focused on modeling the spread of malaria and the potential impacts of health policies and intervention strategies. The EMOD v1.5 [...]
Pablos did a short interview with 90 Seconds TV at the London Web Summit about how we are supporting and funding inventors. This might be the fastest way ever to understand what Intellectual Ventures is all about.
Our insectary is expanding! The new insectary increases our available workspace and will allow us to expand our mosquito-rearing program and take on new projects. Inside the insectary, we raise species from both the Aedes and Anopheles mosquito genera, and use these mosquitoes in a variety of ways ranging from understanding how they reproduce and [...]
Basil Bayati, a member of our Epidemiological Modeling team, recently published a paper in the Journal of Chemical Physics. The paper — Fractional diffusion-reaction stochastic simulations — details our work with stochastic simulations of reaction-diffusion processes for modeling physical phenomena. The underlying spatial process of physical phenomena, including epidemiological processes, is often assumed to be [...]
It is often challenging to link a technology or discovery to a single individual or instant in time, and the technology behind the laser is just one example. The laser was the result of not one individual’s efforts, but the combination of many leading optics and photonics scientists and engineers over the course of history. [...]
Intellectual Ventures’ second spin-out company, Kymeta was recently named as one of 2013′s 50 Disruptive Companies on MIT Technology Review‘s annual list of the world’s innovative technology companies. Kymeta was recognized in the field of Computing and Communications and was the only satellite technology company that was honored in this year’s list. The metamaterials-based antenna [...]
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