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Application-based attacks like the Colonial Pipeline ransomware hack capture headlines but security pros know that cyber criminals are not stopping with application-based attacks and will continue to aim deeper into the heart of computing by targeting operating systems, firmware and hardware.

This inevitable trend has created a need for security solutions that not only focus below the OS in areas like firmware and software, but also that reach deep into the technology supply chain. Attacks early in the chain can have a profound impact on technology consumers, including government organizations that rely on technology to carry out their missions and store and transmit sensitive data.

This trend is one reason the National Institute for Standards and Technology is updating its guidance on developing cyber resilient systems. It is also a bit part of why the Biden administration emphasized cyber resilience in its recent review of supply chain issues.

The escalating nature of cybercrime is also why Intel and other industry leaders are investing in the Compute Lifecycle Assurance, or CLA, initiative. The goal is to develop and implement industry leading supply chain security solutions and to work with industry partners to implement a framework for building security into every stage of a devices existence, from design to manufacture, from deployment to retirement.

For government organizations, CLA means the technologies they rely on should become increasingly cyber resilient. Agencies are well-advised to keep themselves informed of the advancements in supply chain transparency and traceability, and the continual protections CLA will generate to address vulnerabilities as they emerge.

Security at Every Stage

The shift in focus of cyber crime has highlighted the importance of advanced security operations, investments, training and solutions that span across every stage of the device lifecycle. Industry leaders in security have long invested, implemented and led the industry in these holistic supply chain and product lifecycle assurance investments. CLA extends that security-first mindset throughout the technology lifecycle, including:

Build: Starting at the design stage then deep integration with sourcing and manufacturing, how do you confirm the integrity of a platform and its component devices? Is it designed and built in a trusted manner? Is the platform assembled in a trusted facility, with proper controls in place to not only establish the time of manufacture, but also to ensure the necessary levels of traceability?

Theres always risk during manufacture that a vulnerability could be inadvertently built into a product. This could occur, for example, through firmware with embedded malicious code or counterfeit components that are intentionally malicious or not designed securely.

CLA provides guidelines for mitigating this risk. One approach is to implement security solutions to gather, cryptographically seal, and securely store metadata from devices as they are manufactured.

Transfer: Does the system arrive as ordered? Are there processes, controls, and technologies in place to detect tampering, modification or changes within the hardware, firmware and software? Are there mechanisms in place to establish who should, or should not have rights to modify the platform throughout distribution?

Risk can also be introduced as devices ship and make their way through the distribution channel. Does the system arrive as ordered? Are there processes, controls, and technologies in place to detect tampering, modification or changes within the hardware, firmware and software? Are there mechanisms in place to establish who should, or should not have rights to modify the platform throughout distribution?

CLA can reduce these risks in several ways. One is a set of standards to help all vendors that design, build or combine components to adhere to stringent security practices. Another is tamper-resistant and tamper-evident packaging to identify physical tampering. Finally, technology solutions that track and can identify changes to the system (authorized or unauthorized) and establish ownership and transfer for the device are critical to establish transparency, traceability, and tamper resistance within the distribution channel.

Operate: Is the system operating in a known and trusted state? Have the latest functional or security updates been applied? Is the trust profile of the system enough to automate key provisioning and attestation procedures?

Technology must remain protected as its implemented, used and updated. CLA provides guidelines designed to allow your organization to confirm, for example, that the technology products you procure are legitimate and secure before you deploy them. Your IT team should also be able to configure hardware to ensure, each time the device is booted up, that firmware is up-to-date and physical components havent changed.

Retire: Has all data that was transmitted, stored or erased been confidentially wiped from the drive and the platform? Is the status of the device understood as it enters into the secondary market?

In the past, organizations procured a device, provisioned it to an employee and, when it came time for replacement, physically destroyed sensitive components on the system such as storage. Today, consumption models such as PC as a service (PCaaS) are popular, allowing organizations to lease devices, which are eventually reprovisioned in secondary markets. Such redeployments present security risks.

CLA addresses these risks through technologies that ensure data is entirely and irretrievably wiped from devices before theyre reprovisioned or discarded. Proof-of-custody data can make sure the device that was deployed is the device that was retired, and that certificates of data destruction havent been faked.

Agencies Play a CLA Part

CLA doesnt involve only the companies that design and build devices upstream in the supply chain. Consumers of technology such as government agencies also play a crucial role.

IT departments should take advantage of the transparency thats being built into the technology supply chain. Use available tools from industry partners to retake the snapshot taken when the system first loaded the BIOS onto the CPU and ensure theres a match. Second, keep current on BIOS updates and firmware patches that protect against vulnerabilities as theyre uncovered.

Finally, demand that all your technology providers implement the kind of supply chain visibility CLA advocates. Many CLA guidelines map directly to key regulations you need to comply with such as the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), which requires organizations to have a mechanism to protect against counterfeit components.

No initiative or technology can eliminate cyberattacks and cyber risk. But by building protections into every link of the supply chain, the Compute Lifecycle Assurance initiative is making technology safer for the government organizations that depend on it.

Patrick Bohart is a senior director at Intel focusing on technology advancements in security assurance.

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More evidence for the efficacy of a groundbreaking new gene-editing medical procedure has emerged, deepening hope it will provide one-shot treatments or even cures for cancer, sickle cell anaemia and other conditions.

Some people suffering from a rare severe visual disorder were able to see more clearly after being treated using the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, according to reports.

For the first time, CRISPR gene-editing tools were injected directly into the human body, in this case to tackle the leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) condition that made it difficult for the volunteers to navigate their surroundings or see colours.

A volunteer in the experiment can now see colours and regained more peripheral vision.

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In 2012, CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, was first engineered as a biological tool capable of precisely altering DNA. Over the last decade, scientists around the world have continued to improve the safety and efficacy of CRISPR technologies, opening the door to potentially treating a range of genetic diseases.

For years, scientists have been trying to devise treatments that directly address the root cause of disease on the genetic level. Many commonly-used drugs act like a sledgehammer and non-specifically treat disease, which can lead to negative side effects and have varying impact across patients.

CRISPR falls into a category called precision medicine, which can precisely address the specific genetic defect causing a particular disease.

CRISPR works by combining scissor-like proteins with other molecules to locate troublesome parts of a persons DNA blueprint the genome.

CRISPR allows scientists to remove these disease-causing regions of the genome or replace them with DNA that stops or reverses the illness.

CRISPR is already used for a range of applications, from simple diagnostic tools to basic research purposes. During the pandemic, scientists created a CRISPR-based test for COVID-19.

But its wider rollout as a therapy depends on more trials and examination of possible side effects. Over a year following the CRISPR-based treatment of a patient with sickle cell disease, positive health improvements suggest that gene editing may offer a viable cure for many genetic diseases, but broad testing and long-term monitoring remain vital.

The application of precision medicine to save and improve lives relies on good-quality, easily-accessible data on everything from our DNA to lifestyle and environmental factors. The opposite to a one-size-fits-all healthcare system, it has vast, untapped potential to transform the treatment and prediction of rare diseasesand disease in general.

But there is no global governance framework for such data and no common data portal. This is a problem that contributes to the premature deaths of hundreds of millions of rare-disease patients worldwide.

The World Economic Forums Breaking Barriers to Health Data Governance initiative is focused on creating, testing and growing a framework to support effective and responsible access across borders to sensitive health data for the treatment and diagnosis of rare diseases.

The data will be shared via a federated data system: a decentralized approach that allows different institutions to access each others data without that data ever leaving the organization it originated from. This is done via an application programming interface and strikes a balance between simply pooling data (posing security concerns) and limiting access completely.

The project is a collaboration between entities in the UK (Genomics England), Australia (Australian Genomics Health Alliance), Canada (Genomics4RD), and the US (Intermountain Healthcare).

The application to LCA volunteers at Oregon Health & Science Universitys Casey Eye Institute in the US is a first of its kind.

To date, CRISPR treatments involved taking cells from a patient and changing parts of the subjects DNA before reinserting the edited cells back into the patient. Once back inside the body, the cells could multiply and hopefully eliminate the disease.

In the Oregon trials, however, the CRISPR tools were injected directly into the seven volunteers without removing any of their cells. In their case, it was inserted into the retina of the eye.

This new technique holds out hope for treatment of conditions in parts of the body from which cells cant be safely removed, such as the brain.

Its a really amazing technology and very powerful, Dr Mark Pennesi, Professor of Ophthalmology at the Institute told NPR.

One of the Oregon volunteers, Carlene Knight, said she was able to safely navigate her surroundings following the procedure, while another, Michael Kalberer, found he could see colours for the first time.

At his cousins wedding, Kalberer discovered that he could see the DJs strobe lights change colour and identify them to my cousins who were dancing with me, he told NPR. That was a very, very fun, joyous moment.

The trial is still ongoing and other volunteers didnt experience the same improvement. So its too soon to say when CRISPR will be able to treat sufferers of other genetic illnesses as effectively.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.

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Sales through resellers alone are up 12% in the same period.

U.S. B2B technology channel revenue grew 4% year over year during Q3 2021. This is according to market research group NPD and its B2B Distributor Track and Reseller Tracking Services. Year to date through September, channel revenue is up 7% year over year. This is compared to a 3% decline for the same period in 2020 vs. 2019.

In August, the NPD Group reported that channel revenue did remarkably well, rising 9% in the first half of 2021.

Channel revenue is not only up since last year, but it is above the pre-pandemic levels of 2019. There is a need to support an increasingly hybrid workforce, in addition to higher average sales prices, due to component shortages and increased shipping costs.

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Mike Crosby is director and B2B technology industry analyst for NPD.

Resellers are benefitting from an improving economy across all verticals, especially midsize and enterprise customer segments that support remote workforces, Crosby said. As we head into the last few months of 2021, look for organizations across the channel to focus on business continuity and productivity. With so much change occurring real-time within many organizations; return to work, hybrid work weeks, and digital transformation efforts, organizations need to be able to manage these shifts effectively with minimal disruption to the business.

The products driving gains remain consistent as security software (up 14%), notebooks (up 28%), and monitors (up 12%) see continued growth through September. However, sales of collaboration products have accelerated as employees return to office settings in some capacity. As a result, collaboration software sales, combining cloud and on-premises, are up 10% year to date in 2021. In addition, large format commercial displays have seen 18% gains. Cloud revenues alone have increased 34% year to date and growth is expected to continue.

As for the reseller channel specifically, Q3 2021 sales grew 12% compared to Q3 2020 and are up 9% vs. Q3 2019. Commercial software had the highest revenue share, with dollar sales up 17% over Q3 2020 sales and 25% vs. Q3 2019. Education remained the top performing reseller vertical sector in B2B technology, representing 15% revenue share in Q3. Following a strong Q3 2020, this was still up 2% year over year and up 39% when compared to 2019 levels.

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"The Extortion Economy", which draws on the ProPublica investigation of the same name, explores the inner workings of a massive criminal industry that has taken hospitals, city governments, schools, and even an oil pipeline hostage. But while the tools of the ransomware trade may be new, the principles of extortion that underpin it go back centuries. Host Meg Marco takes listeners on a journey to the front lines of the ransomware fight, where she meets the people affected as well as those who are fighting back.

Episode 1: The Problem. A new-age iteration of the old-age extortion problem. A ransomware vigilante, a piracy (as in actual boats) expert, a school administrator, and a kidnapping victim share their experiences.

Episode 2: The Bad Actors. Look into a criminal world where the stakes are high and the methods increasingly businesslike and meet the people who interact with the ransomware hackers.

Episode 3: All Cats, No Mice. After the Colonial Pipeline payment, the FBI followed the money, and cybersecurity researchers followed the ransomware group. We followed both.

Episode 4: Follow the Money. We look at the reasons ransomware is so hard to combat and ask hard questions about who is really helping the victims.

Episode 5: File Not Found. The problem of ransomware has many causes but no clear solution. What's coming next?

The Extortion Economyis available through Apple Podcasts,Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Host Meg Marco is the Editor in Chief of Observer leading all editorial operations for the Observer brand. Before joining Observer Media, Meg held senior editorial positions at ProPublica, The Wall Street Journal and Axios. At ProPublica her team's work was honored with the 2021 National Magazine Award for Social Media, and she was part of the team of editors whose work was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She is also formerly the editor and head of product of Consumerist, a Gawker Media publication that was later acquired by Consumer Reports. During her tenure, Consumerist produced deeply reported coverage of topics such as fraud, surprise medical bills, for-profit colleges, telecom policy, consumer privacy, and product safety. She is the author of Field Guide to the Apocalypse, a satirical guide to surviving the end of the world published by Simon & Schuster in 2005, well in advance of the actual end times.

ProPublicais an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. With a team of more than 100 dedicated journalists, ProPublica covers a range of topics, focusing on stories with the potential to spur real-world impact. Its reporting has contributed to the passage of new laws; reversals of harmful policies and practices; and accountability for leaders at local, state and national levels. Since it began publishing in 2008, ProPublica has received six Pulitzer Prizes, five Peabody Awards, four Emmy Awards and nine George Polk Awards, among others.

About MIT Technology ReviewFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyin 1899, MIT Technology Reviewis a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, and interviews explain the newest technologies and their commercial, social, and political impacts. MIT Technology Review derives its authority from its relationship to the world's foremost technology institution and from its editors' deep technical knowledge, capacity to see technologies in their broadest context, and unequaled access to leading innovators and researchers. MIT Technology Review's mission is to bring about better-informed and more conscious decisions about technology through authoritative, influential, and trustworthy journalism. Subscribe. Listen. Attend. Follow: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram.

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Vermont Business Magazine Renowned digital workforce accelerator,Upright Education, has partnered withNorwich Universitys College of Graduate and Continuing Studies (CGCS), a national leader in online graduate education, to offer technology bootcamps that fast-track adults into high-growth technology careers.

Through this unique partnership, Norwich University Online will offer award-winning accelerated learning programs in software development (coding) as well as user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design (UX/UI) to adults seeking new careers in these fields.

Norwichs College of Graduate and Continuing Studies is excited to partner with Upright on these new online certificate programs. Certificate programs are a vital component in advancing careers and we are excited to enter into the growing and changing fields of software development and user experience design, said William Clements, vice president and dean of graduate and continuing studies. Working alongside experts in the field like Upright, reflects our continued efforts to provide educational opportunities that are relevant and desired in todays educational market.

Thesecareer accelerator bootcampsare designed to develop job-ready graduates by combining project-based learning with industry-specific career mentorship, the result of which has proven to be quite effective. TheSoftware Development Bootcamp, for example, boasts a 91% job placement rate with most program graduates starting their new career within 60 days of completing the course. TheUX/UI Design Bootcampalso boasts employment outcomes with graduates finding employment in a variety of tech-related roles.

Both organizations are hopeful that promoting professional certification among job-seeking populations will ensure economic stability and growth astechnology jobs increase from 41 million to 190 million by 2025. The partnership between Norwich and Upright will allow both organizations to service a growing population of adult job-seekers whose career options will expand in a hybrid economy as a result of these remote acceleration opportunities.

Benny Boas, the founder and CEO of Upright Education, said The US has seen record job growth in the technology sector over the last few years and the industry is showing no signs of slowing. With so many adults looking for what to do next in their career, gaining technical skills is the only barrier between people and high-paying jobs.

All Upright partnership courses are live, online meaning that Norwich students can learn from anywhere while immersing themselves in a cohort of peers, instructors, and career experts, all invested in the job-readiness of their students. Students will be able to choose between Career Bootcamps, 480-hour intensive courses designed to go from beginner to employable, and Career Ignition programs, 60-hour introductory courses for learners interested in pursuing further career development or continued learning.

Founded in 1819,Norwich Universityis the oldest private military college in the United States. The Upright partnership programs are being offered through the universitys College of Graduate and Continuing Studies whichoversees online degree and continuing education programs that prepare motivated students for high-paying roles in todays most critical fields.Contemporary thought leadership indicates that coding bootcamps will be standard offerings at colleges and universities nationwide by 2030. By partnering with Upright, Norwich is taking its place at the forefront of the movement to bring career accelerators in technology to colleges and universities.

Enrollment is now open forNorwich Pros career acceleration programs with the next round of courses starting February 2022. Students can sign up at any time by going tobootcamp.norwich.edu.

Source:NORTHFIELD, Vt. Norwich University 11.16.2021

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EDWARDSVILLE - An innovative think-tank at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, GeoMARC, is a leading geospatial technologies hub that is helping address both cultural and environmental issues facing the world.

The applied research and development center specializes in the application of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing. These technologies are crucial for researchers worldwide who are working to monitor and model the local, regional and national effects of natural disasters, map the hazardous locations along routes that children use to walk to school, predict potential subsidence due to underground mining, and conduct other important research that affects our day-to-day lives.

GeoMARC capitalizes on the specialties of its multi-disciplinary staff who hold a wide range of geospatial expertise in remote sensing and digital image processing, GIS, machine learning, computer modeling, transportation network analysis, and solution automation, said GeoMARC Director Randall Pearson, PhD.

GeoMARC continues to expand its impact as a nationally-recognized geospatial problem solver for local school districts, local area government, various state and federal agencies, and numerous commercial enterprises.

The Center has strong working relationships with SIUEs Center for Predictive Analysis (C-PAN), the Biotechnology Incubator Laboratory (BLI), and NCERC. Additionally, GeoMARC has been awarded and completed more than 120 projects for local, state, and government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies.

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SIUE is uniquely positioned to host a center like GeoMARC due to the Department of Geographys expert faculty, high-quality students, and long-standing reputation across the region, shared Pearson. GeoMARC (formerly LASA) was formed in 1996 and has funded over 50 graduate students through assistantships and more than 150 undergraduates through student work. The workforce for the region is at SIUE, and GeoMARC has access to a highly-qualified pool of students.

Students involved in GeoMARC gain refined geospatial technology skills and confidence in problem-solving abilities. They learn how to build geospatial data sets, gather and clean data, design problem solutions, present solutions, and develop and refine interpersonal skills.

Pearson is confident the value of GeoMARC to SIUE and the community will continue to grow via cross-disciplinary and multi-institutional collaborations that promote the use of advanced geospatial technologies to conduct, lead and influence research and innovative solutions that meet the needs of both private industries and the public sector.

To get involved or learn more about GeoMARC, contact Pearson at rapears@siue.edu.

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BENGALURU, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--L&T Technology Services Limited (BSE: 540115, NSE: LTTS), a leading global pure-play engineering services company, announced that it has been selected as an engineering partner by Mavenir and NVIDIA, to accelerate adoption of the industrys first converged AI-on-5G.

LTTS will support Mavenir with customization, integration and deployment of AI applications for deployment on NVIDIAs AI-on-5G Platform

AI is already transforming many industries across the globe. When combined with the power of 5G networks, the two technologies will enable powerful new use cases in a quick, secure, and cost-effective manner.

NVIDIAs AI-on-5G platform is a unified platform that brings together developments at the edge to accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises across all industries. 5G provides the underlying connectivity for billions of devices, extending AIs reach to all connected objects and enabling new use cases and new markets. AI-on-5G is supported by a large ecosystem of partners offering a range of GPU-optimized applications and by NVIDIA SDKs, toolkits, and APIs.

Abhishek Sinha, Chief Operating Officer & Member of the Board, L&T Technology Services said, 5G and AI are two inseparably linked technologies - both poised to significantly improve the performance of applications and solutions and enabling huge amounts of data to be processed in real-time. We are delighted to support NVIDIA and Mavenir on this transformative initiative to offer powerful AI solutions that unlock the true potential of 5G.

Soma Velayutham, Industry General Manager, AI & 5G, NVIDIA said, NVIDIA is building platforms to bring the power of AI to the edge to support enterprise transformation. LTTS expertise in digital engineering will help accelerate the adoption of AI-on-5G platforms at the edge globally.

BG Kumar, President, Communication Services Business Group, Mavenir said, With the recent launch of Mavenirs Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA), Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and Enterprises can take advantage of seamless, hyperconverged AI-on-5G applications enabled by Mavenirs deep knowledge in AI coupled with broad solutions expertise serving a diverse customer base. Selecting L&T Technology Services as an engineering partner will enable the technology to reach organizations on a global level and unleash the endless possibilities provided by 5G.

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L&T Technology Services Limited (LTTS) is a listed subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited focused on Engineering and R&D (ER&D) services. We offer consultancy, design, development and testing services across the product and process development life cycle. Our customer base includes 69 Fortune 500 companies and 57 of the worlds top ER&D companies, across industrial products, medical devices, transportation, telecom & hi-tech, and the process industries. Headquartered in India, we have over 17,900 employees spread across 17 global design centers, 28 global sales offices and 72 innovation labs as of September 30, 2021. For more information please visit https://www.ltts.com/

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DUBLIN, November 17, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Assisted Reproductive Technology Market by Product, Technology, and End User: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global assisted reproductive technology market was valued at $2,317.7 million in 2020, and is estimated to reach $12,272.5 million by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 19.3% from 2021 to 2030.

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is defined as the medical procedure used to address the infertility treatments for handling of eggs and embryo. This technique aims to remove the eggs from a woman's ovaries and further combine it with sperm in the in-vitro laboratory condition. After fertilization, the egg or embryo is transferred to the uterus of women. It alleviates the burden of infertility on a family and individual. In-vitro technology is one of the most common and advanced procedures, which are used for the infertility treatment. The ART includes gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT), frozen embryo transfer (FET), zygote intrafallopian transfer and in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer.

The global assisted reproductive technology market is majorly driven by an alarming increase in the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome, rise in disposable income, surge in demand for in vitro-fertilization, advancement in the technology for novel ART, and a rise in awareness about IVF and surrogacy. According to Office on Women's Health (OWH), in 2019, it was reported that 1 in 10 women of childbearing age are diagnosed with PCOS, in the U.S. According to Center for Disease control and Prevention (CDC), it was reported that 6% to 12% of the U.S. women of reproductive age, having PCOS, were also diagnosed with infertility.

PCOS is one of the most common causes of female infertility, which surge the demand for assisted reproductive technology and drive the growth of the market. The rise in disposable income has assisted reproductive technology and drives the growth of the market. Furthermore, in February 2021, TMRW Life Sciences, announced the launch of the world's first automated Cryo specimen management solution for eggs and embryo, which are used in the IVF procedure. The TMRW platform is introduced in various fertility clinics in the U.S. launching the software enables management of the million embryos and eggs central to modern IVF.

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Increase in incidence of infertility cases and the surge in sedentary lifestyle are the major factors that drive the global assisted reproductive technology market. Moreover, the increase in prevalence of obesity significantly contributes toward the market growth, owing to obese person being more prone to infertility and uterine disorder. Rise in demand for in-vitro fertilization for effective treatment, and high success rate acts a key driving force of the global market.

Furthermore, governments are taking multiple initiatives to support healthcare information systems for development of advanced ART, which is expected to boost the market growth. As per a study by the American Society for reproductive medicines, it was reported that approximately 40% of infertile couple, the male partner is responsible for infertility and among them 85% to 90% are treated with surgery. In addition, technological advancements in assisted reproductive technology, and growth in number of fertility clinic are anticipated to provide lucrative opportunities for the market expansion. The rise in awareness regarding cost-effective treatment of infertility and spread of knowledge about the success rate of IVF procedure propels the growth of the market.

On the contrary, risk associated after IVF procedure and high cost of assisted reproductive technology are anticipated to hinder the market growth during the forecast period. The rise in number of fertility clinic and development of IVD devices leads to the enhancement of the assisted reproductive technology sector. This encourages many key players to enter emerging markets, thus offering a lucrative growth opportunity in the assisted reproductive technology market.

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The report provides an in-depth analysis of the global assisted reproductive technology market size along with the current trends and future estimations to elucidate the imminent investment pockets.

It offers market analysis from 2021 to 2030, which is expected to enable the stakeholders to capitalize on the prevailing opportunities in the market.

A comprehensive analysis on region assists to understand the regional market and facilitate the strategic business planning and determine prevailing opportunities.

The profiles and growth strategies of the key players are thoroughly analyzed to understand the competitive outlook of the global assisted reproductive technology market.

Market Dynamics

Drivers

Increase in prevalence of infertility rate

Technological advancements in assisted reproductive technology

Growth in disposable income and rise in awareness regarding infertility treatment

Restraint

Opportunity

Companies Mentioned

Cook Medical Inc.

Fujifilm Holdings Corporation (Irvine Scientific Sales Company Inc.)

Genea Biomedx

Merck KGaA (EMD Serono Inc.)

Millendo Therapeutics Inc.

Oxford Gene Technology

Progyny Inc.

The Cooper Companies Inc. (CooperSurgical Inc.)

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.,

Vitrolife AB

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Methanes march from obscurity to center stage at the Glasgow climate summit reflects its growing recognition as an intensive global warming driver. President Joe Biden launched a Global Methane Pledge shortly before COP 26, securing dozens of national commitments to reduce global methane 30 percent from 2020 levels by 2030.

Methane is not, however, a new climate concern or a new arena for multi-national policy. Five years ago, American, Canadian, and Mexican leaders embraced new continental pledges to address climate change. A North American Leaders Summit included vows to reduce methane releases from oil and gas production by 40-to-45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025.

Part of the enthusiasm surrounding this tri-national commitment stemmed from a recognition that energy-sector methane ranks among the technologically easiest and lowest-cost greenhouse gases to mitigate. Technologies to measure and monitor methane and capture it for use as natural gas are increasingly available, maturing rapidly, and often highly cost-effective. Captured methane retains considerable commercial value if used as natural gas rather than wasted.

Given these complementary factors, methane is routinely characterized as low-hanging fruit for climate policy. Perhaps this contributed to the big grins that Justin Trudeau, Enrique Pea Nieto, and Barack Obama displayed toward the end of their Three Amigos Summit. Five years later, Biden will host his own North American summit, joining Trudeau and Mexicos Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador. Some reference to climate and energy is likely. But what happened to previous summit pledges?

North America still lacks a credible measurement system for methane releases. An ever-growing body of research using advanced technology routinely finds consistent downward bias in official data published in all three nations. Progress is being made by groups using satellites and related technology to monitor portions of the methane supply chain, but government-reported methane numbers remain suspect.

Policy development to mitigate methane releases has proven highly uneven. In the United States, Obama-era efforts to apply the Clean Air Act to methane collapsed after a withering counter-offensive by industry, states, and the Trump Administration. With a few notable exceptions, most notably Colorado, production states have subsequently stood pat on methane, reflecting the historic reluctance to upset production firms. Industry performance on employing best practices for technology and emission minimization continues to vary dramatically as best we know.

Since Biden took office, Congress has restored Obama-era provisions for new drilling operations. A methane fee remains under Build Back Better Act consideration, albeit weakened from its initial form and linked to funding to subsidize industry acquisition of mitigation technology. New federal funding is also in the offing to remediate abandoned and orphan wells, given past and present industry and state aversion to rigorous bonding provisions. The Environmental Protection Agency has just released proposed rules for expanded methane oversight, but these now begin a perilous political and legal path forward. In short, the United States has begun revisiting methane policy but with a very uncertain future after a squandered half-decade.

Mexico initially appeared poised for methane leadership, including through widely acclaimed 2018 legislation. But implementation has advanced glacially and Lpez Obradors 2018 election triggered a profound Mexican energy policy pivot. Earlier support for rapid renewable energy expansion has been supplanted by all-out oil pursuit that restores Petrleos Mexicanos (Pemex) as the preeminent national energy force. Mexico holds an unenviable record of producing significant declines in oil output alongside major methane release increases. Expanded methane waste has fostered growing reliance on imported American natural gas.

The 2016 summit, however, was not a complete flop. Canada largely honored its part of the bargain while its two continental partners shirked. Trudeau prioritized methane regulation, leading to 2018 federal standards. This included tri-annual leak detection and repair, flaring and venting restrictions, and transition to low-emission pneumatic technology at production sites. The government has pledged to go farther in coming years.

Canada has framed methane policy as a complement to other climate initiatives such as its robust carbon pricing program in preparing Glasgow pledges. Its federal government lacks authority to impose national policies and so negotiated equivalency agreements with major production provinces. British Columbia promptly submitted an equivalency proposal, leading to early 2020 approval. According to a Pembina Institute analysis, BC regulations have strong elements, representing best practices and in some cases exceeding the federal rules. British Columbia also adopted legislation to address its growing orphan well backlog, blending expanded regulations with a new levy on production to assure funding. Alberta and Saskatchewan similarly produced equivalency plans but these were more modest than British Columbias, resulting in longer negotiations and some variation from federal intent. Ultimately, new agreements have been approved, lubricated by expanded federal funding for industry loans and grants to ease technology transition costs.

Canada emerges a half-decade after the 2016 summit with an operational federal plan that appears to be reducing emissions despite increased energy production. There remain uncertainties as to whether Canada can honor 2025 reduction pledges, given provincial inconsistencies and enduring doubts over release data accuracy. Nonetheless, while all three nations have embraced the Global Methane Pledge, only Canada has a clear forward path to address the energy component of this initiative.

Methane will not dominate the coming continental deliberations, given the many issues that will compete for summit attention. More broadly, the way in which other places such as China, Europe, and Russia deal with methane remains unclear. The new global pledge also includes other sectors such as agriculture, which poses different technology challenges and represents a difficult constituency for political leaders to address.

But one foundational step would entail North American commitment to employ state-of-the-art technology to systematically measure and report methane emissions. Both government and business can build on the established continental model for toxic emission releases and expand its application. As long as methane continues to lack clear measurement and oversight, multi-national pledges will mean little to long-term environmental sustainability. North America could become a model for global efforts to deliver on the new international pledge.

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