Category: New products
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Researchers Develop New Solid Materials Shaping Process
Scientists at New York University (NYU) in New York City have developed a method to shape solid materials using a corn starch solution. While manufacturers today can use lasers or high-speed water jets for this purpose, these current methods are not very precise. The corn starch solution developed at NYU offers a rudimentary alternative (illustrated…
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Device, Medication Control Cattle Fever Ticks
Scientists at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have developed two methods to combat cattle fever ticks that cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. Cattle fever ticks transmit Texas cattle fever (bovine babesiosis), a deadly disease of cattle caused by singled-celled organisms. Scientists at the ARS facility in Kerrville, Texas, are developing and testing…
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Agricultural Gene Technology Licensed to Dow Chemical
The John Innes Centre (JIC), a plant biology research institute in Norwich, U.K., announced today an exclusive licensing agreement with Dow AgroSciences, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company, for technology that enhances the root systems of plants. The technology was developed at JIC by Dr. Liam Dolan and his colleagues. JIC says the team cloned…
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New Process Accelerates Nanoparticle Production
Engineering researchers at Oregon State University in Corvallis have discovered a new method to speed the production rate of nanoparticles by 500 times. The researchers say this advance — for which a patent has been applied — can help make products from nanotechnology more commercially practical. Nanoparticles are extraordinarily tiny groups of atoms and compounds…
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Chinese Develop New Waterproof Cotton Fabric
Scientists with the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics and the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing have developed a waterproof cotton fabric that continues to repel water after 250 commercial launderings. The new fabric, say the researchers, looks almost identical to ordinary cotton, is both impermeable and breathable, and retains its super-hydrophobic…
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Researchers Process Tobacco Into Organic Pesticide
Tobacco may be the plant we all love to hate, but researchers at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in London have confirmed properties of tobacco that make it a potential natural alternative to traditional commercial pesticides. This potential as a pesticide can also provide tobacco farmers with another, more benign, use for their crops.…
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Portable Scanner Enables Quicker Breast Cancer Detection
An engineering professor at University of Manchester in the U.K. has invented a portable scanner based on radio frequency (microwave) technology, which can show in a second the presence of tumors -– both malignant and benign -– in the breast of a patient on a computer. The device can be used at a primary care…
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Start Up Licenses Nuclear Imaging Drug Compounds
Clarity Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd, a new company in Australia, has licensed technology developed by the University of Melbourne and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). The technology involves compounds developed by scientists from ANSTO and the University of Melbourne for use in positron emission tomography. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a test that…
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Oxford University Spins Off Tidal Turbine Company
A new enterprise, Kepler Energy Limited, has been formed in the U.K. to develop a tidal turbine, a result of research in Oxford University’s Department of Engineering Science. Professors Guy Houlsby, Martin Oldfield, and Malcolm McCulloch developed the turbine (pictured right), which they say has the potential to harness tidal energy more efficiently and cheaply…
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New Vaccines Developed for Farm-Raised Catfish
Scientists from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are developing vaccines to help protect against common diseases faced by healthy farm-raised catfish. Biologists and aqua pathologists from ARS labs in Auburn, Alabama and Chestertown, Maryland are focusing on protections for catfish against against the bacteria Streptococcus (S.) iniae, S. agalactiae, and other pathogens. The scientists…