Welcome to the Global Cleantech 100 2012

The Global Cleantech 100 represents innovation and highlights the companies most likely to make a significant market impact in the next 5-10 years

Andover, Mass., October 10, 2012, The Lancet has published the initial series of successful lung transplants demonstrating the feasibility and safety of using the Organ Care System™ (OCS™) Lung technology, at Hannover Medical Schoo

Hersh Vision Group is the first to offer this novel keratoconus treatment

In today’s economy, capital is much more difficult to raise, and the various sources of investment, from private angels to larger VC firms, are understandably much more cautious and conservative about where they place their money. “The economic recession made its impact on life sciences investments, as there have been negative returns on investments for the last 12 years.

The South San Francisco company LS9 recently produced five tons of industrial chemicals from plant sugars at a Florida demonstration facility, a step toward proving that its genetically engineered microbes can manufacture carbon compounds and fuels at a commercial scale.

LEXINGTON, Mass., Oct 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- T2 Biosystems, a company developing direct detection products enabling superior diagnostics, today announced that it has been named to the FierceMedicalDevices "Fierce 15" list, designating it as one of the leading medical device and diagnostic companies of 2012.

By Galen Moore, Boston Business Journal

Acceleron one of only two biopharmaceutical companies to make the list

Largely gone are the days when venture capitalists could hatch a biotech and take it public without much regard for the needs of Big Pharma. Public investors seldom buy into new biotech companies, and drugmakers have increasingly become early partners with VC firms and their young ventures. In the process, pharma has gained significant clout in the biotech VC game.

AeroShot Energy, a revolutionary air-based energy product invented by Harvard professor David Edwards, will launch across the United States on October 1st.