Jabra, a global leader in professional audio and video solutions, has announced an industry-first collaboration with Norwegian video technology company Huddly. The two Scandinavian brands are joining forces to bring a unified solution to market specifically designed to address key challenges in large meeting spaces, particularly those running on Android systems. This partnership leverages complementary product portfolios from both companies, which already offer mature, field-tested technologies.

The collaboration is built on a shared ambition to deliver scalable, plug-and-play solutions that simplify deployment across meeting rooms of varying sizes. Jabra brings its expertise in integrated audio and video solutions for small and medium-sized meeting rooms, known for straightforward deployment and reliable performance. Huddly contributes its Huddly Crew™ multi-camera technology, which is specifically engineered for larger meeting spaces and utilizes AI to automate speaker tracking and real-time framing adjustments.

Holger Reisinger, SVP for Video Solutions at Jabra, emphasized the strategic importance of the partnership, stating, "We are launching into a rapidly expanding market for intelligent meetings with untapped potential across large rooms. This collaboration addresses a real need in the market and allows us to combine our strengths to support secure MDEP-based systems and large meeting spaces." The partnership aims to deliver integrated solutions to customers worldwide while accelerating time to market.

By combining their respective technologies, organizations will gain access to a comprehensive package that extends coverage and performance into larger, more complex rooms. The collaboration enables a faster path to market, helping customers access complete solutions without delay or complexity. Both companies' established technologies and complementary strengths position them to capture opportunities in the growing intelligent meetings market.

Attached to nearly every human cell is an antenna-like structure known as the primary cilium, which senses the cell's environment and controls how it responds to signals from its surroundings. New research from the U.S. and Sweden has mapped and identified hundreds of proteins that comprise these structures, contributing new insights for future research into ciliary biology, disease mechanisms and potential therapies.

Publishing in the journal Cell, researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stanford University used advanced imaging and antibody-based techniques to map proteins inside primary cilia across three types of human cells. They analyzed more than 128,000 individual cilia and identified 715 proteins that are located in different parts of the cilium responsible for sensing mechanical or chemical signals, such as hormones. These primary cilia are distinct from motile cilia, which are responsible for movement of fluids or cells.

Professor Emma Lundberg, a researcher in cellular and clinical proteomics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, says the study also identified a possible gene behind various disorders linked to malfunctions of the cilium. These can lead to disorders affecting many parts of the body, from the brain and eyes to the kidneys and bones. In addition, the researchers discovered 91 proteins that had never before been linked to cilia.

The study expands the current understanding of cilia, casting them as highly adaptable and versatile processors of information, which tune their protein composition to suit the needs of the cell they belong to. "Cells seem to customize the protein composition of their cilia to have them perform specific sensing tasks," Lundberg says. "These newly-discovered ciliary proteins inspire many new hypotheses about their roles in cellular function and human health."