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Vezt is a developer of a mobile application allowing users to share royalty rights for songs and recordings of various artists. The company's application provides artists, songwriters, and producers with funding sourced from fans on a global basis, while the fans receive royalties from these songs and recordings in turn for their funding. Vezt collects the royalties on behalf of the fans from performing rights organizations, publishers, and record labels and tracks the royalties through the company's proprietary blockchain technology.

The Fusion Industry Association is a registered non-profit organization composed of private companies working to commercialize fusion power. The Association advocates, for policies that would accelerate the race to fusion energy.

Dominion Energy is one of the United States largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of approximately 23,600 megawatts of generation, 10,900 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline and 6,400 miles of electric transmission lines. Dominion also operates one of the United States largest natural gas storage systems with 947 billion cubic feet of storage capacity and serves utility and retail energy customers in 10 states.

The reactor utilizes axially and radially concentric alternating current particle accelerators. Fusion reactive gases are ionized, and then accelerated to a target with fusion reactive velocities. The reacting mass is then disassembled and ions converted back to neutral gas. Waste gas is extracted, and new fuel gases injected. These processes cycle continuously at the AC drive frequency.

Dr. Josiah Zayner is the CEO of the The ODIN, and started bioHacking during his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics at the University of Chicago, creating The Chromochord in his apartment, a musical instrument that uses engineered protein nanotechnology. After his Ph.D., Josiah received a fellowship to work with NASA's Synthetic Biology program, engineering bacteria with the objective of terraforming Mars. Zayner is the founder and CEO of The ODIN. Zayner has a number of scientific publications and awards for his work in protein and genetic engineering. He is also recipient of Art awards for creating Speculative Science works that have been featured in museums, including NY MoMA PS1.

SynBioBeta was founded in 2012 by John Cumbers, and is located in Beverly Hills, California. It is an organization seeking to help scientists, investors, entrepreneurs, and policy makers create sustainable products and services using synthetic biology.

Burcon Nutrascience is a food and biotechnology company operating out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that was founded in November, 1998 as a venture capital pool corporation. Initially, Burcon Nutrascience was focused on evaluating assets, properties, and other businesses to acquire. It was not until October 8, 1999 when Burcon Nutrascience acquired a company operating out of Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada called BMW Canola, that Burcon Nutrascience pivoted to become a food and biotechnology company.

The company produces medical ventilators, defibrillators, LIFE-BASE portable systems, pressure reducers, oxygen systems, portable suctions machines, equipment cases, and backpacks, and emergency accessories.

Its research and development technologies include suspension cell culture, conjugation technology, and reverse genetic technologies. Its main production facility L HOUSE, located in Andong Gyeongbuk Bio Industrial Complex, uses single-use bags in its bioreactor, rather than conventional stainless steel tanks.

Vaxart is a clinical stage biotechnology company developing recombinant oral vaccines in tablet form. The company’s oral vaccines are developed with its proprietary platform called VAAST and are designed to activate the immune system of the gut which can generate broad systemic and local responses. Vaxart’s tablets can be stored at room temperature. The company is working on liquid formulations, for young children and adults unable to ingest tablets.

Its lead therapeutic candidate is the investigational CardiAMPTM Cell Therapy System, which provides an autologous bone marrow derived cell therapy (using a patient's own cells) for the treatment of two clinical indications, heart failure that develops after a heart attack and chronic myocardial ischemia.

The primary objective of tissue engineering is to understand the principles of tissue growth and to apply this to produce functional replacement tissue. Such tissue can be used to restore, maintain, or improve damaged tissues, or whole organs. By 2005, engineered artificial skin and cartilage tissues had been approved by the FDA, however had limited use in human patients.

Polymerase chain reaction is a method of amplifying or generating many copies of a target region of DNA. PCR reactions are normally carried out in a thermocycler, which can rapidly change the temperature of the reaction which take place in 3 steps repeated many times. High temperature is applied to double-stranded DNA to separate the two strands, a process called denaturation. Lowering the temperature allows primers to bind to the template which is called the annealing step. Primers are short nucleotide sequences, single-stranded DNA, that are complementary to a region on the template DNA. In DNA adenine pairs with thymine (A-T) and cytosine pairs with guanine (C-G). Next is the extension phase where the DNA polymerase adds nucleotides onto the 3’-OH at the end of the primer. From the primer the nucleotide sequence extends as DNA polymerase adds nucleotides are complementary to the template. PCR reactions are exponential and after 35 cycles 2³⁶ copies are produced. Reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) is a version of PCR that detects RNA by starting with a reverse transcription step to convert RNA into a DNA copy (cDNA), followed by PCR amplification of the cDNA.

The Galactic division of Hypergiant Industries is working to develop a satellite supply chain, with full-stack of space services. They are working on developing satellite designs and actionable insights into operating satellites and developing a satellite supply chain. The Galactic division also works to identify, invest in, and acquire technologies that can be integrated and enhanced by machine intelligence. Customers of their Galactic division include NASA, Northrop Grumman, DARPA, U.S. Air Force, Spaceflight, and Ubiquitilink.

Nuclino is a Munich-based software company, that has created a software platform where team members can collaborate to operate a business.

It is also used in assistive technology to help vision-impaired individuals in reading text content, the contents of the display are automatically read, aloud to the user.

Synthetic biology is the design and engineering of biologically based parts, novel devices and systems as well as the redesign of existing, natural biological systems. It has the potential to deliver important new applications and improve existing industrial processes, as it is applied to challenges in healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing and environmental protection and remediation. As a multidisciplinary field, synthetic biology brings together social scientists, biologists, chemists, engineers, mathematicians, and others to identify major challenges in society and collectively find solutions. Goals of synthetic biology include generating organisms that produce a substance such as medicine, agricultural products or fuel, metabolize pollutants, have the ability to sense something in the environment. Other applications include the generation of disease-resistant crops, tissue engineering and the building of engineered living materials that self-assemble or modulate the performance of a material. Please see Cluster: Synthetic biology for a collection of topics, tools, applications, organizations and companies related to synthetic biology.

PURIS, formerly known as World Food Processing, was founded in 1985 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and would later move its headquarters to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2016 for a more business friendly manufacturing environment. The company makes plant-based protein, fiber, and starch ingredients primarily out of organic and non-GMO peas grown in the United States. PURIS supplies American farmers with seeds and buys back the organic, and non-GMO crops from them at the end of the growing season. Once crops are harvested PURIS removes any unwanted materials such as rocks, sticks, or stems at their crop processing facility. After crops are cleaned and processed they are manufactured into PURIS products.

Cultured blood is the production of blood cells in the lab from stem cells or blood stem cells. Stem cells which can form any cell type in the body or blood stem cells which can form all types of blood are used as starting material which is grown and differentiated into specific cell types. It is possible to produce red blood cells and platelets in culture but a hurdle to overcome is in scaling up production to produce a standardized blood product for transfusion services . Combining blood culture and gene editing opens up the possibility of correcting genetic defects in patients, with blood disorders and growing functional blood cells for these patients .

The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) started as an idea in Eric Ries's 2011 book The Lean Startup. He had hoped someone would take the idea and run with it. No one did. In 2015, Eric Ries and John Bautista founded LTSE. Ries believes the volatility of traditional markets where increasing per-quarter share price is dominant cuts the motivation for long term growth. Ries said in an interview with Vox,