NEW ORLEANS — Biotech company MDR Logix LLC said that additional testing of its lead product, MDR504, has shown positive results in the fight against COVID-19. According to findings published on bioRxiv, a "preprint repository for the biological sciences," MDR504…
NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans has provided a sneak peak at some of the ideas a committee is considering as it looks for ways to make the French Quarter more pedestrian-friendly. Ideas include: Converting existing streets into permanent…
MERAUX, La. – The Meraux Foundation and St. Bernard Economic Development Foundation are presenting the sixth annual Startup St. Bernard Competition as a livestream event. Anyone can watch the live “Shark Tank” style competition online at startupstbernard.com or here starting at 3 p.m. on…
HONG KONG (AP) — Twitter says it is cracking down on accounts and content related to QAnon, the far-right U.S. conspiracy theory popular among supporters of President Donald Trump. The measures include banning accounts associated with QAnon content, as well…
NEW ORLEANS - Homeowners, contractors and green sector specialists will join the Urban Conservancy at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 21 for a Zoom call to release new survey findings demonstrating that homeowners can significantly reduce flooding on their properties while…
NEW ORLEANS – GCR Inc., an international public sector software and services firm headquartered in Metairie, announced that it and its subsidiaries - PCC Technology Inc. and MB3 - have rebranded as Civix. “Over the course of decades, our company…
BATON ROUGE — Gov. John Bel Edwards announced a Louisiana 'smart port initiative' intended to streamline operations and improve safety through real-time data shared by port administrators, tenants, shippers and providers of warehouse, cargo and ground transportation. Louisiana Economic Development…
NEW ORLEANS – Business accelerator Camelback Ventures welcomed its newest cohort of entrepreneurs who will receive free coaching, capital and access to professional connections through virtual workshops to better grow their businesses and navigate the COVID-19 economic downturn. All of…
NEW ORLEANS - Robért LeBlanc of LeBlanc + Smith restaurant group said the challenges of reopening during the pandemic have inspired the company to reinvent its business model. The biggest change? All workers are now full-time employees with a base…
WASHINGTON, D.C. - NASA said it has selected 409 technology proposals for the first phase of funding from the agency’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program. The contracts will provide approximately $51 million to 312 small…
MANDEVILLE – Water purification company MECO has been ramping up production of systems required in biopharmaceutical research and development as global biopharmaceutical companies race to create the first COVID-19 vaccine. For more than 90 years, MECO has provided water purification…
COVINGTON, La. — Covington-based tech company OffenderWatch announced it has launched its sex offender registry technology for the entire state of Maryland. The company said all law enforcement agencies in Maryland will now use OffenderWatch to manage their sex offender…
BATON ROUGE – Pixel Dash Studios, a Louisiana Technology Park member company that develops video games and other digital media, partnered with New Orleans-based production company Top Right Corner to develop digital versions of The Masked Singer stage using LIDAR…
NEW ORLEANS - Owners and operators of short-term rentals in New Orleans have lowered prices, relaxed their rules and become expert sanitizers in an effort to attract more guests - but many are still waiting for demand to return and…
NEW ORLEANS - Tulane University School of Medicine said its researchers have identified a gene that causes an aggressive form of breast cancer to rapidly grow. More importantly, said Tulane, they have also discovered a way to “turn it off”…
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook employees are using Twitter and Facebook's internal communications tools to register their frustration over CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to leave up posts by President Donald Trump that suggested protesters in Minneapolis could be shot. Twitter flagged and…
NEW ORLEANS — Chosen Diagnostics announced it has received a $224,758 grant from the National Science Foundation for development and commercialization of its biomarker for noninvasive detection of necrotizing…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans officials are studying plans to ban cars in the city’s French Quarter and transform the area into a pedestrian-only zone, the city’s mayor said. Mayor LaToya Cantrell made the announcement Wednesday during a town…
NEW ORLEANS – Waitr, provider of on-demand food ordering and delivery, has announced the addition of more choices for its grocery delivery service in the New Orleans area. A new partnership with Lakeview Grocery is underway for same-day grocery delivery…
NEW ORLEANS - 18-year-old Loyola student David Price has won a competition and earned significant attention on social media for his invention designed to make traffic stops safer for drivers and law enforcement. Price's "Safety Pouch" is a document holder…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Stormy weather is threatening to delay SpaceX’s first astronaut launch. A SpaceX rocket is scheduled to blast off Wednesday afternoon from Kennedy Space Center, carrying a Dragon capsule with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the…
NEW ORLEANS - The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive spike in the use of telemedicine services nationwide - and New Orleans is no exception. Neurologist David J. Houghton, the medical director of Ochsner Health’s digital medicine program, said Ochsner…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For more than a century, New Orleans has depended on canals and pumps to get rid of stormwater in a city where about half the land is below sea level. Now the bustling Mississippi River port that expanded…
NEW ORLEANS - As part of the city’s COVID-19 reopening plan, restaurants, hair salons, gyms and other businesses will be required to record the names and phone numbers of all of their customers. City leaders say gathering this data is…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Ms. - From NASA: NASA resumed Green Run testing activities this week on the first flight stage of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the return of limited crews to perform work at the agency’s Stennis…
NEW ORLEANS - Tulane University said that three of its researchers are the recipients of new "Fast Grants" awards funded through the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Modeled after the work of the National Defense Research Committee in World…
NEW ORLEANS - There's a new food delivery app in town. And this one started here in New Orleans with a worthy goal. ZappEats said it is an online platform for restaurants tired of other delivery apps taking up to…
BATON ROUGE, La. — From NexusLA: The Silicon Bayou Collaborative (NexusLA, Opportunity Machine, The Idea Village) are returning this Friday with the second edition of the Resiliency Series — a panel-based series hosted online featuring entrepreneurs who have weathered significant…
NEW ORLEANS – Waitr, a provider of on-demand food ordering and delivery, has announced that the company has expanded into same day grocery delivery in New Orleans, with more cities to come in the near future. In New Orleans, Waitr…
NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists on Wednesday announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus — an experimental drug that can speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients — in a major medical advance that came as the economic gloom caused…
