Science and Enterprise

Category: New products

  • Life-Cycle Analysis Shows CFL Bulbs Most Enviro Friendly

    Researchers from Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research in Duebendorf, studied the full lifetime of four lighting technologies, and found compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) to inflict the least environmental damage. The analysis includes consideration of CFL’s mercury content, since exposure to elemental mercury when absorbed through the lungs can cause neurological…

  • Implanted Device Treats Balance Disorder

    On 21 October, a University of Washington Medical Center (UW Medicine) patient will receive the world’s first device designed to quell vertigo associated with Ménière’s disease. The UW Medicine team that developed the implantable device plans a 10-person surgical trial of Ménière’s patients, which they hope will lead to its eventual use with other common…

  • University Designs Small-Scale Low-Impact Hydro Plant

    Researchers at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) in Germany have developed a small-scale hydroelectric power plant that solves some of the problems often encountered when building these facilities:  high cost, environmental degradation, and impact on fish. The developers believe this design can make hydroelectric power more feasible in more places. Hydroelectric power, while consuming no fossil…

  • Simple, Inexpensive Sensor Detects Shoe Bomb Chemical

    University of Illinois chemists in Champaign, Illinois have developed a simple sensor to detect an explosive used in shoe bombs, with the potential to be built into inexpensive devices for luggage and passenger screening at airports and elsewhere. Triacetone triperoxide (TATP) is a high-powered explosive that in recent years has been used in bombing attempts.…

  • Business Incubator Spins Off Hand Hygiene Start Up

    HanGenix, a recently formed start up enterprise in Boston, Massachusetts, is the first company to be spun out of a new business incubator program from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), a consortium of teaching hospitals and engineering schools, also in Boston. HanGenix focuses on reducing hospital acquired infections (HAI) by…

  • Indian Biotech Develops Cell-Culture H1N1 Vaccine

    Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad, India said today it developed India’s first cell-culture H1N1 swine flu vaccine. The company believes it is the only developing world flu vaccine to be manufactured in cell culture, a faster and more advanced manufacturing process, instead of eggs. Traditional egg-based flu vaccine production requires long lead times — four to…

  • Advanced Statistical Analysis Enables Food Bacteria Detection

    Finding bacterial contamination in the food supply when the target contaminants are known is difficult enough, but finding food-borne bacteria that are not identified targets can seem like an overwhelming task. To attack this problem, researchers from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana have developed a new approach to…

  • Early Success Recorded with Lasers on Kidney, Liver Tumors

    Physicians at Mayo Clinic’s Jacksonville, Florida campus used a technique known as MRI-guided laser ablation to heat up and destroy kidney and liver tumors. So far, five patients have been successfully treated, which means no visible tumors remained after the procedure. The physicians say the developmental-stage treatment is potentially beneficial against most tumors in the…

  • UConn, United Technologies Develop Gold Substitutes

    Researchers at University of Connecticut (UConn) in Storrs, partnering with engineers from the United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Research Center in East Hartford, Connecticut, have modeled and developed new classes of alloy materials for electronic devices that can reduce reliance on costly gold and other precious metals. With the price of gold hovering around $1,370 per…

  • Biotech Develops Faster Bacteria Diagnostics

    NanoLogix Inc., a biotechnology company in Hubbard, Ohio has unveiled a new line of tests to detect and identify aerobic live-cell bacteria. NanoLogix’s Quick-Tests, says the company, offers the research community high-sensitivity analysis results in reduced time with lower costs than traditional technologies. NanoLogix says its Quick-Tests detect and identify live-cell bacteria, such as E.coli,…