LabCentral’s Golden Ticket prizes to founders unlock life sciences that lack in ‘Biodiversity’
LabCentral Ignite’s Golden Ticket program awards companies founded by women and people of color to help “solve for underrepresentation” in biotech industries.
Order asks for a conversation on restricting labs as they spread outside cramped Kendall Square
Representatives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kendall Square Association and Chamber of Commerce fired warning shots responding to a proposal that could limit labs to the city’s industrial zones.
Attend meetings on MBTA cuts, lab buildings, housing, Memorial Drive, bike safety and more
Public meetings this week look at reversing plans for bus cuts; zoning around lab buildings, parking and multifamily housing; Memorial Drive closings and bike safety in Somerville; a greenhouse gas emissions law; and much more.
Wastewater testing will add influenza to Covid, just as monkeypox and polio become concerns
Cambridge already tests its wastewater for Covid-19, and now the city is adding testing for influenza, but poliovirus and monkeypox testing is more complicated.
Lab building that would overlook Porter Square to be introduced to residents at online meeting (Updated)
Two homes and a former printing company in Porter Square are due to be replaced by a four-story laboratory office building, topped by a fifth floor of mechanicals.
Business case study: As Covid pandemic arrived, Biobot Analytics found luck favors the prepared
Timing was critical for Cambridge startup Biobot Analytics. “We didn’t know there would be a pandemic,” one executive said. “But the vision was already there that there’s a data trove living in our sewers that can tell us so much about human health and human behavior.”
Attend meetings on rats, dogs, snow spending, CharlieCards for students, Café Batifol and more
Public meetings this week look at stemming rat infestations, free dog licensing for seniors and an accounting for snow season; Café Batifol’s arrival in Kendall and Vitality Bowls in Central; ending off-street parking requirements; free CharlieCards for students; converting the Sacred Heart rectory into affordable rentals; and more.
Attend meetings honoring RSTA’s Mike Ananis, single-family zoning, linkage fees, labs and more
Public meetings this week look at bike lanes through Porter Square, honoring the RSTA program’s Michael Ananis, ending single-family-home zoning and a real estate “linkage” fee leap, a plan for sidewalk and street work and MBTA news, putting labs in neighborhoods, school district budgeting and more.
It looked like Covid levels in wastewater predicted case counts – until the numbers began to diverge
As Cambridge nears the end of its indoor mask mandate, the city’s Covid-19 case rate continues to rise. Yet levels of the virus in Cambridge wastewater – which was thought to track and even predict waves of illness – have generally been dropping.
Attend meetings about bike lanes and businesses, off-street parking, a Baldwin landmark and more
Public meetings this week look at bike lanes and off-street parking, a Net Zero Action Plan update, IQHQ’s life-sciences campus near Alewife, the search for a new city manager, using millions in American Rescue Plan funds, landmarking the Maria Baldwin House and much more.
