UC ANR: The original incubator

Sparse Days and ANR SOLSTICE

Anr - Dfg 2008

Porto Digital Incubator

The Brazilian incubation movement, despite having grown 25 percent in the last ten years, is going through a phase of stagnation due to lack of harmony between their structures and services to the new demands of society and the economic moment. Due to this fact, the Porto Digital Management Unit (NGPD), the institution responsible for the Porto Digital Technology Park governance in Recife – Bra...

The First Mythological Description of an Incubator

To the Editor: Reading through Greek Mythology one can easily come across a series of references concerning the transportation of Newly Borns, from their birth place to other, to be “nursed–bred”, where the newborn remained until it was fully developed. A distinct example is that of Zeus’ transportation [1]. When Rea was going to give birth to Zeus, in order to save him from Cronus’ infanticide...

The Infant Incubator in Europe (1860-1890)

In the nineteenth century, obstetricians in Europe began to construct devices to incubate infants in increasingly controlled environments. The infant incubator is a medical device that maintains stable conditions and a germ free environment for premature infants born before the thirty-seventh week of pregnancy [2]. Records show that physicians had used infant incubators since 1835. However, Jea...