Science and Enterprise

Category: New products

  • Solar Panels Resembling Ivy to be Installed at University

    Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology (SMIT), a company in Brooklyn, New York, has developed solar panels that resemble ivy leaves and assembles them in arrays to cover a building’s walls. The first U.S. installation of SMIT’s solar array is, of course, a college campus: University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Solar Ivy, as SMIT calls…

  • Adult Stem Cells Help Cardiac Function in Angina Patients

    A clinical trial by researchers at Baxter International in Deerfield, Illinois and Northwestern University medical school in Chicago found injections of individuals’ own stem cells reduced angina episodes and improved exercise tolerance time in patients with chronic, severe angina who did not respond to other treatments. The results of the research appear online in the…

  • Medical Center Commercializes Nanotech Cancer Treatment

    Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in Germany now offers for selected patients a nanomedicine method for the treatment of recurrent brain tumors. The science underlying the nanotechnology-based cancer therapy was developed by researchers at Charité, which is being marketed by MagForce Nanotechnologies AG, a Charité spin off company. The principle behind the therapy is the use…

  • University Develops Tiny, Lens-Free Camera

    A postdoc engineer at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York developed a microscopic camera that fits on the head of a pin, contains no lenses or moving parts, and costs pennies to make. The prototype by Patrick Gill and his colleagues is described in the current issue of the journal Optics Letters (paid subscription required).…

  • Compartmented Gel Capsule Developed for Multi-Drug Delivery

    U.S. and Chinese researchers have designed a multiple-compartment gel capsule that could simultaneously deliver drugs of different types. A description of their research is published online in the journal Macromolecular Rapid Communications (paid subscription required). L. Andrew Lyon, a chemistry professor at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Xiaobo Hu, a former visiting scholar…

  • Lasers, Electric Fields Aid Lab-on-a-Chip Technology

    Researchers from universities in the U.S., U.K., and China are developing new processes that combine a laser and electric fields to manipulate fluids and tiny particles such as bacteria, viruses, and DNA on miniature chip-sized analytic devices. These advances, with applications ranging from drug manufacturing to food safety, are described in the current issue of…

  • Prof. Develops Anti-Microbial Technology for Fabrics

    A University of Georgia researcher has invented an anti-microbial technology that can turn medical linens and clothing germ-free. Jason Locklin (right), a member of the chemistry and engineering faculties at the university’s Athens campus, published results of his and colleagues’ research last month in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces; paid subscription required. Locklin’s discovery…

  • Algorithm Being Developed to Limit Small Airplane Collisions

    A postdoc and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an algorithm for a tracking system to predict and prevent collisions between small aircraft. The MIT team will present early results of its research in October at the 30th Digital Avionics Systems Conference in Seattle. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has mandated that by…

  • Trial Shows Drug Combo Extends Time Without Tumor Growth

    The global pharmaceutical company Novartis says its drug everolimus, when used in combination with exemestane, extended the time without tumor growth, when compared to placebo plus exemestane, in women with advanced breast cancer. The study included postmenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer whose disease has progressed, despite initial endocrine therapy. Novartis says the clinical trial…

  • Foods with Baked Milk Can Build Children’s Dairy Tolerance

    Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York have found that adding increasing amounts of foods with baked milk into the diets of children who have milk allergies helped most of them outgrow their allergies. The findings appear in the 23 May issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The team…