Tag: chemistry
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Jet Fuel Additive Reduces Chance for Crash Explosions
2 October 2015. Materials scientists and chemists designed a polymer additive that reduces the explosive nature of jet fuel in crashes or terror attacks, without compromising the fuel’s performance. Researchers from California Institute of Technology and Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena published their findings in today’s issue of the journal Science (paid subscription required). The…
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Sensor Network, Google Maps to Track California Air Quality
28 September 2015. A San Francisco company that designs environmental sensors and networks is partnering with Google Maps to track air quality in three California regions. Aclima Inc. and Google Maps announced the partnership today at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, but no financial details were revealed. Aclima Inc. develops…
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Clinical Trial Underway Testing Cancer Surgery Aid
22 September 2015. A clinical trial is enrolling patients with soft tissue sarcoma to test a synthetic peptide that illuminates cancer cells to make them more easily removed during surgery. The early-stage study is testing the safety of the peptide made by Blaze Bioscience Inc. in Seattle and conducted at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los…
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3-D Printed Guide Devised to Regrow Nerve Fibers
18 September 2015. Researchers from medical and engineering faculties at five universities in the U.S. developed a technique combining three-dimensional printing with tissue regeneration to grow new peripheral nerves in lab rats. The team led by mechanical engineering professor Michael McAlpine at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis published its findings today in the journal Advanced…
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Genomic Technique Devised to ID Drug Candidates
8 September 2015. Researchers at University of Illinois in Champaign developed a technique using genomic tools to identify natural substances in bacterial strains with potential therapeutic properties. The team led by microbiologist William Metcalf and chemistry professor Wilfed van der Donk published its findings last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (paid…
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Cancer Labs Crowdsource Drug Discovery
3 September 2015. Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and Structural Genomics Consortium are making an early-stage drug prototype freely available to the biomedical research community to further define its therapeutic capabilities. Financial and intellectual property aspects of the offer were not immediately disclosed. The two research labs — both in Toronto, Ontario, Canada — jointly…
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Grant Funds Research on Nanotech Cancer Treatments
1 September 2015. National Cancer Institute is renewing its support for a Northwestern University research center advancing nanotechnology to design new cancer treatments. The Northwestern University Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence is the recipient of a new five-year, $11.7 million grant from National Cancer Institute, part of National Institutes of Health. The Center for Cancer…
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Allied-Bristol Licensing Immunotherapy Technology
27 August 2015. Allied-Bristol Life Sciences, a joint venture of science commercialization company Allied Minds and Bristol-Myers Squibb, is licensing a new type of synthetic chemistry technology from Yale University that can stimulate the immune system to treat cancer. Financial details of the licensing agreement were not disclosed. The agreement covers a technology known as…
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Oilseed Plant Engineered for Biofuel, Chemical Feedstocks
14 August 2015. A biochemistry lab at Kansas State University genetically engineered camelina oilseed plants to make them better feedstocks for biofuels and chemicals. The team led by Kansas State professor Timothy Durrett published its findings in the August issue of the journal Plant Biotechnology Journal (paid subscription required). Durrett, with colleagues from University of…
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Inside Air Monitor Devised as Smartphone Add-On
13 August 2015. Engineers in Finland designed a miniaturized system for measuring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases with smartphones to monitor interior air quality for health care needs. The team at VTT Technical Research Centre, an applied research institute in Finland, developed the monitor as an add-on to mobile devices, with a spin-off…