Tag: manufacturing
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Could Your Business Benefit from an Electrical Upgrade?
Improving your workers’ safety and working conditions will help you decide whether your workshop could benefit from an electrical upgrade.
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Infographic: Countries with Highest Robot Density
Our friends at Statista published a chart this week showing installed industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers.
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Nanotech Pain Drug Formulations Developed
A pharmaceutical researcher developed treatments for chronic pain, formulated as nanoscale droplets, that in tests with lab animals target the source of pain directly and use much smaller doses than current pain drugs.
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Team Performance Explored in Multi-Sensory Work Sites
A research project is underway that examines the ways teams of workers adapt and perform in new industrial environments demanding attention to visual information as well as cues from sound and touch.
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Genome Editing Yields Quality Beer Without Hops
Academic scientists studying synthetic biology with help from professional brewers used genome editing to engineer yeast that produces beer with the taste of hops, but without adding hops.
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Company Formed to Develop Cancer Cell Therapies
The MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is starting Optera Therapeutics Corp., a new company to commercialize its research on treating cancer with a patients’ own immune system cells.
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3-D Printing Devised for Sensors in Soft Robotics
Engineering researchers developed techniques using three-dimensional printing that enables robotic devices made with soft materials, like those in health care, to sense more properties of objects they encounter.
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Lab Burns Graphene Circuits into Food, Fabrics
A chemistry lab at Rice University devised a process for producing graphene, a material that conducts electricity, in materials containing carbon, including fabrics and even food.
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Limited Industry Progress Seen on Microbial Resistance
A pharmaceutical industry coalition documents some advances after 2 years in developing better products and practices against antimicrobial resistance, but progress is limited and uneven.
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Continuous Flow Manufacturing In Space Station Test
Among the experiments carried to the International Space Station in mid-December is a test of continuous separations of one liquid from another, used in drug and chemical manufacturing.