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The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator discovered off the coast of Antikythera, Greece.

The synthetic Notch system (SynNotch) was developed by Wendell Lim at UC San Francisco and patented to Cell Design Labs. The SynNotch system, based on the Notch cell signalingcell signaling system, has been used to program cells to self-organize into a two-layered sphere. One group of cells were engineered to express Notch on their surface and another group of cells were engineered with a custom synNotch receptor, which detected Notch on the other cell group. When together, the first cells activated cadherin proteins in the second cells so that they clustered together to form the two-layered sphere. The ability of these spheres to self-repair when damaged was also demonstrated.

SandozSandoz is a division of Novartis that manufactures, distributes and sells prescription medicines and pharmaceutical active substances that are not patent protected and is franchised into Retail generics, Anti-Infectives and Biopharmaceuticals.

On May 23, 2018 Orbit Discovery closed a £6.9M Series A Financing. The round was led by Oxford Sciences Innovation, joined by new investors RT Ventures, Borealis VenturesBorealis Ventures, Perivoli Innovations, along with further investment from all existing investors and Oxford University, Borealis Managing Partner Phil Ferneau and Oxford Investment Consultants' Partner James Mallinson became Board of Directors at Orbit Discovery.

The delivery system uses a patented lipid nanoparticle (LNP) as a transfection agent to deliver the non-integrating DNA plasmid into cancer cells. Non-Human Primate Studies began in August, 2017 by RxGenRxGen which showed no visible toxicity at doses ten times the normal human dose, but full analysis is yet to be completed.

National Space Society (NSS) is a Washington, D.C.-based independent entity with the stated goal of enabling people to live and work in communities beyond EarthEarth with the intention of bettering humanity.

Embryomorphic engineering, abbreviated EMBENG, is an area of morphogenetic engineering where the spatiotemporal interplay of genetic switches and chemical gradients that create an embryo is abstracted toward artificial systems. In Doursat’s lab, researchers model and simulate principles of self-patterning and self-assembly during embryonic development. An embryomorphic model combines multicellular biological development principles where agents are guided by genetic instructions. Chemical gradient diffusion provides positional information, gene regulation triggers differentiation and patterning, cell divisioncell division creates structural constraints.

Investments include Auris Health Inc., Noxomi Networks and Aeva and exits including Alluvium, AltspaceVRAltspaceVR and EverSpin Technologies.

On October 27, 2016 Unity Biotechnology completed their series B funding round with $116 million in funding from Bezos Expeditions (lead investor), WuXi AppTec, VenrockVenrock, Mayo Clinic, Ballie Gifford, and ARCH Venture Partners. On August 17, 2017 Unity Biotechnologies closed an additional series B funding round with $35 million in funding from several new investors including: INVUS Opportunities, Three Lakes Partners, Cycad Group, COM Investments, and Pivotal Alpha Limited.

NuID is a decentralized authentication and digital identitydigital identity management solution from NuID, Inc. that uses blockchain technology and cryptography. It uses zero-knowledge encryption to eliminate the need for businesses to store passwords and other sensitive authentication data.

Established in 2014 and owned by Overstock.com, Inc., Medici Ventures was created to manage and oversee the company’s investments in firms building solutions leveraging and servicing Blockchain technologies. It focuses mainly on industries like capital markets, money & banking, identity, land, voting, and underlying technology. It promotes the adoption of distributed ledgers that can be of help in terms of the security in financial technologyfinancial technology.

Jude Gomila was born in HarrowHarrow, UK in 1984. He studied engineering at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge (2002-2006) and has a Masters in Engineering. Jude Gomila was awarded Inc 30 under 30 in 2012. Jude Gomila started the company Heyzap in 2008 with his co founder Immad Akhund. Heyzap sold to Fyber (RNTS media) in 2016. Heyzap was backed by investors Union Square Ventures, Qualcomm, Ashton Kutcher, Chris Dixon, Naval Ravikant and other angels., Naval Ravikant and other angels.

Ginkgo Bioworks had pre-money evaluation of $350 million before receiving $100 million in its series C funding round on June 8th, 2016. The funding came from a number of old and new investors including: Y Combinator, Viking Global Investors, Senator Investment Group, Baillie Gifford, and Allen & Company, and Allen & Company. .

Founded in 2013 by James Smith and Simon Maynard, Bugsnag provides a centralized platform for application stability management.

Founded in 2013 by James Smith and Simon Maynard, Bugsnag provides a centralized product for software quality.

Bugsnag's product provides software teams with automated crash detection and alerting tools, as well as bug prioritization and diagnostics dashboards.

To date, Bugsnag has monitored over 1 trillion application sessions from thousands of top technology companies, including Airbnb, Eventbrite, Lyft, Mailchimp, Namely, Pandora, Shopify and Square.

Bugsnag is headquartered in San Francisco, and has an international office in Bath, UK. The company is backed by Benchmark Capital and, Matrix Partners, and GV.

Ju Fan, Research FellowResearch Fellow, National University of Singapore and Wei Wang, PhD Student, National University of Singapore are working on developing Apache SINGA.

Grid Singular is a decentralized energy data exchangedata exchange platform. This solution is aimed at transforming the traditional energy market into a decentralized and distributed market model. Key features include interoperability, blockchain technology based, decentralized storage and ability to develop applications. These features can be applied into various processes and services such as energy data analysis and benchmakring, smart grid management, green certificates trading.

There is rapid development ongoing in the research and creation of smart contract languages used by the blockchain community. Ethereum uses a variety of smart contract languages including called Solidity. Solidity is a high-level language whose creation was influenced by JavaScriptJavaScript as well as python and C++. The Solidity language was created by members of the Ethereum foundation including Gavin Wood, Christian Reitwiessner, and others. Michelson is a language developed to write smart contracts on the Tezos blockchain. The smart contract platform being developed for the Rchain blockchain is called Rholang. Lisk smart contracts are written in Javascript. The Cardano blockchain defines smart contracts using a language called Plutus, which has syntax similar to Haskell. Chain has released a language called Ivy for writing high level code which compiles to Bitcoin Script code.