Amy Steadman is a biochemist for Intellectual Ventures Lab, currently working on a cervical cancer screening project to develop a test that would help diagnose high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) in the pre-cancer stage. Read More

Our favorite links this month tell stories of outside-the-box thinkers whose unique outlooks on complex problems led to life-changing solutions. Read More

Visit the Intellectual Ventures Lab and you’ll find one of IV’s favorite inventions, the Babbage Machine. Consisting of 8,000 parts, weighing five tons and measuring 11 feet long, this particular invention is hard to miss. But its size isn’t the reason it has a home in the IV Lab foyer. Read More

The IV Lab was excited to host a group of 60 STEM superheroes-in-training from across Seattle. These high school juniors are part of the Upward Bound program and are exploring careers in the sciences and engineering. Read More

Ever had your phone charger bite the dust at the most inopportune moment? Tempted fate with a partial charge because you didn’t have enough time wait for a full battery? Colin McNelis has a solution for that – and he’s only 17. Read More