Here’s our round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.
Today’s Top Pick – “Better Beer: College Team Creating Anticancer Brew”. Ah, the health benefits of wine with the taste of beer.
- Biotechnology “Voters In Michigan To Decide On Stem Cell Research Measure”
- Biopharmaceuticals “Pharmaceutical Companies Reduced Spending On Advertisements In First Six Months Of 2008″
- Cleantech “Rochester Institute of Technology Offers the First Green Doctoral Program”
- Information Technology “RIM Unveils First BlackBerry Flip Smartphone”
- Venture Capital “Synthetic biology attracts VC attention”
- Business and Entrepreneurship “Samsung netbooks, laptops to invade US shores in 2009″
- Science and Innovation “Better Beer: College Team Creating Anticancer Brew”
- Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship “The mesh potato network: A South African project develops a cheap phone system for rural areas”
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June is an information specialist at MaRS and a recent graduate of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto.