Science and Enterprise

Category: New products

  • Grant to Fund New Program Logic for Flight Data Integration

    A grant from the U.S. Air Force to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York will fund development of computer logic to help create safer and more efficient flight technology. The $100,00 grant was awarded to computer scientist Carlos Varela of Rensselaer’s Data Science Research Center, who is also a licensed pilot (pictured right). Varela’s…

  • Lab Discovers Material to Help Process Spent Nuclear Fuel

    Research chemists at Sandia National Lab in Albuquerque have developed a new material that can capture and remove volatile radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel. The team led by Tina Nenoff (pictured right) published their findings recently in the Journal of the American Chemical Society; paid subscription required. The Sandia researchers, with colleagues from Argonne…

  • Soap Developed with Magnetic Properties

    Researchers at University of Bristol in the U.K. and Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France have developed a soap with iron salts that can be controlled by magnets. The discovery is expected to lead to products useful in cleaning up oil spills at sea, which can be better captured and removed after use than currently available…

  • First Results Show Safety of Stem Cell Eye Transplants

    Early results from two clinical trials show the safety of retinal cells derived from human embryonic stems cells (hESCs) to treat chronic eye diseases. The results from two patients, one in each trial conducted by the biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) in Marlborough, Massachusetts, were published online in the journal The Lancet. The clinical…

  • Industrial Robotics Software Repository Established

    Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio has set up a repository of software routines for industrial automation that work under the Robot Operating System. The software collection of tools, libraries, and drivers is publicly accessible and licensed under the open-source Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license. The Robot Operating System (ROS) provides functions and routines…

  • Aspirin Could Help Prevent Cervical Cancer in Women with HIV

    Research by global health investigators and cancer specialists suggests that aspirin should be evaluated for its ability to prevent development of cervical cancer in HIV-infected women. The findings by a team from New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, with colleagues from Qatar and Haiti, are published in the current issue…

  • Consortium Develops Virtual Mouse for Lab Testing

    Simcyp Ltd. in Sheffield, U.K., a consortium of pharmaceutical and biotech companies and research universities, has created a virtual lab mouse for use in cancer and toxicological research. Simcyp is a spin-off enterprise from Sheffield University that develops modeling and simulation tools for lab testing. Lab mice are used frequently in the development of new drugs…

  • Benefits Found for Telemedicine in Diagnosis, Disease Mgmt

    Dermatologists in the University of California at Davis Health System that use videoconferencing technology, have found live interactive consultations can improve clinical outcomes for patients from beneficial changes in medical diagnosis and disease management that otherwise might not occur. Their findings appear in the current issue of the journal Archives of Dermatology (paid subscription required).…

  • Compound That Repairs RNA Defects Identified

    Researchers at Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida have identified a compound that can help repair defects in ribonucleic acid (RNA), a genetic material similar to DNA used in protein synthesis. The team’s findings appear online in the journal ACS Chemical Biology (paid subscription required). The researchers, led by Scripps chemistry professor Matthew Disney (pictured…

  • Faster, Cheaper Thermoelectric Materials Process Developed

    Engineers and materials scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York have discovered new methods to create nanomaterials for more efficient refrigerators and cooling systems with no refrigerants or moving parts. The research is described in a paper published online in the journal Nature Materials (paid subscription required), and the authors have started commercializing…