Tag: economics
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Outcomes Scientists May Miss in a Paperless Office
Going paperless can cut costs and improve efficiency, both of which are vital in every scientific area.
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Analysis – Most New Drugs Not Adding Patient Benefits
An analysis of drugs approved for use in Germany since 2011 shows no evidence most treatments provide new or added benefits to patients compared to standard care.
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Infographic – Robotics Effects on Job Markets
Statista published a chart this week reporting on expectations of major companies on job markets, this weekend’s infographic on Science & Enterprise.
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Infographic – Technology Transforms Manufacturing
CB Insights issued a report that pulls together developments on the remaking of manufacturing with advanced technologies, the source of this weekend’s infographic.
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Safe, Economical Method Devised to Make Graphene
Researchers in Australia and India developed a safer and much less costly process for synthesizing the super-material graphene using an extract from eucalyptus bark.
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Challenge Seeks Circular Economy Start-Ups
A challenge competition is seeking new businesses that disrupt the plastics recycling and energy storage industries with ideas based on a circular economy.
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Infographic – Phones Top Internet Access Method
Findings from a Pew Research Center survey released this week show more Americans with smartphones use their phones to access the Internet than other methods, this weekend’s infographic.
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Infographic – China’s Rare Earth Monopoly Slipping
China remains the largest producer of rare earths, but other countries are developing their sources of these materials, this weekend’s infographic.
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Strep A Vaccine Project Launched
An international initiative is underway to begin work on a vaccine against group A streptococcus infections becoming resistant to today’s antibiotics.
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FDA Approves Rare Infant Disease Gene Therapy
The Food and Drug Administration today approved a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy in young children that replaces a faulty gene in motor neurons with a healthy one.