Scientists create 3D-printed, microscopic gas sensors - painters’ pallets without even a hint of pigment

"The tiny responsive arrays, which are smaller than a freckle, can be used to tell us an enormous amount about the chemistry of their environment”

22-Sep-2021 - Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and AMBER, the SFI Research Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, have discovered a way to fabricate tiny colour-changing gas sensors using new materials and a high-resolution form of 3D printing. The sensors – responsive, printed, ...

Major breakthrough identifies new mechanism for the development of schizophrenia

12-Oct-2017 - Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have discovered that abnormalities of blood vessels in the brain may play a major role in the development of schizophrenia, a debilitating condition that affects around 1% of people in Ireland. The network ...

Detecting Mercury with Gold

Individual gold nanorods could be used to develop smaller, portable mercury sensors

09-Mar-2017 - Mercury is harmful even in small amounts. Detecting it currently requires expensive equipment. Researchers are working on a faster and cheaper alternative: a portable sensor that can perform a rapid analysis in the field. The key is finding something small and accurate enough to do the job.For ...

Eksigent Announces Major Expansion for HPLC Manufacturing and Service

23-Jul-2009 - Eksigent Technologies announced that it will increase manufacturing capacity by 40 percent to meet strong demand for its HPLC products. "The need for this increase in product build capability is being driven by higher than expected customer demand for both our cHiPLC®-nanoflex for proteomics, ...

Raman’s narrower fingerprint set to broaden utility of flow cytometry

27-Feb-2009 - Andor Technology plc announced that researchers have successfully tested the first proof-of-concept of a Raman Spectral Flow Cytometer (SFC), thanks to its Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) camera NewtonEM. Raman Spectral Flow Cytometry promises to revolutionise cell characterisation by allowing ...

Dioxin-like PCBs in pork from Ireland

Recall by Irish authorities to avert health hazards for consumers in Europe

12-Dec-2008 - According to the latest information from the European Rapid Alert System, levels of up to 292 µg/kg polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been detected in pork products from Ireland. As this constitutes a major exceeding of the maximum admissible levels in the samples examined, the Irish ...