Tag: Europe
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Doctoral Candidate Develops Stress-Reducing Pen
Researcher Miguel Bruns Alonso, a Ph.D. candidate at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, has developed a pen that measures the stress levels of the person using it, and can help to reduce that stress. Bruns is expected to receive his doctoral degree in industrial design later this week. Bruns carried out…
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Collaboration to Develop Smart Power Grid in Denmark
A collection of 32 partners — companies, not-for-profits, research institutes, and universities — have agreed to develop a new intelligent power grid in Denmark. Called the iPower platform, the new system aims to be ready in 2025, when Denmark is scheduled to generate half of its electricity from wind energy. The iPower platform’s full name…
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Pharma R&D Q3 Output Keeps Pace, But Revenue Slides
The financial research company Fitch Ratings said in a report issued today that the global pharmaceutical companies followed by the company maintained a modest, but steady pace of new product approvals and regulatory filings to U.S., European, and Japanese regulators in the third quarter of 2010. The report, “Global Pharmaceutical R&D Pipeline: Third-Quarter 2010” (subscription…
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Company Leads Consortium to Crystallize Parkinson’s Enzyme
Emerald BioStructures, a structural biology services company in Bainbridge Island, Washington, received a grant to lead a consortium to crystallize and solve the structure of the enzyme believed to be a key molecular mechanism behind Parkinson’s disease. The project, funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, includes researchers from the Helmholtz Association…
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More International Collaboration Found in Nanotech Research
Investigators at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Florida International University (FIU) in Miami reveal how research in nanotechnology has increasingly become a multi-national enterprise, despite having some 60 countries now funding nanotech initiatives within their borders. Phillip Shapira of Georgia Tech and Jue Wang of FIU found nearly a quarter of all published…
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U.K. Lab Spin Off Creates Athletic Testing Device
UK Sport, the national development organization for elite athletes in the U.K., has agreed to use a new hand-held medical device to help improve athletes’ training programs. The device is made by Argento Diagnostics, a company spun off fron the National Physical Laboratory, the country’s national institute for standards and measurements. The Argento Diagnostics device…
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Univ. Tests Ultrasound to Diagnose Prostate Cancer
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands, with Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, have developed and conducted early tests on an imaging technology that can accurately identify prostate cancer tumors. The technology is based on ultrasound, and also has the potential to assess how aggressive tumors are. A number of ultrasound companies are…
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Carbon Capture and Storage Offer New Green Industry for U.K.
The United Kingdom has the capacity to develop new green industries for capturing harmful carbon dioxide emissions from industry and storing them deep underground, but more investment is needed to further develop the relevant technologies and infrastructure. These conclusions are outlined in two recent briefing papers published by the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at…
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Mathematical Patterns Found to Forecast Spanish Earthquakes
Researchers in Spain have found patterns of tectonic behavior that occur before an earthquake on the Iberian peninsula. The team, from University of Seville and Pablo de Olavide University in Seville used mathematical clustering techniques to forecast medium to large seismic movements when certain conditions coincide. The research will be published this month by the…
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GSK, Nottinghan Univ. to Collaborate on Green Chemistry
The BBC is reporting that the global drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will build a new lab at the University of Nottingham in the U.K. for research and education in cleaner and safer chemistry processes. The proposal is expected to be presented first as a proof-of-concept in 2011, for construction at the University’s Jubilee Campus, one…