“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!” A researcher from the University of Tennessee focuses on developing new stabilizers that prevent ice crystals in ice cream. Everyone loves ice cream,” said Tao Wu. “But if you have big ice crystals, the ice cream will have an icy texture. It’s not good.” Wu (read more)
UTRF Spotlight Inventor
Inventor Spotlight: Lawrence Pfeffer and Duane Miller
Perseverance, passion, and partnership are three words to describe the work of Lawrence Pfeffer and Duane Miller, researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, who have spent the last decade and a half studying treatment options for glioblastoma, an aggressive, lethal form of brain cancer. We had gotten close to being funded, but (read more)
UTRF startup, BASEwise Solutions advance quantitative genotyping and metagenome profiling
Bode Olukolu is an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who co-founded a startup, BASEwise Solutions, to bring to market his technology, OmeSeq-qRRS, a next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based reduced representation sequencing (RRS) platform for genotyping and metagenome profiling. Unlike other approaches, Olukolu’s technology only sequences a (read more)