KNAUER among Top 100 innovators

02-Jul-2014 - The company was successful already the fourth time at the „Top 100“ innovation awards. The award was handed over by popular science journalist and TV presenter Ranga Yogeshwar. For more than 20 years, the "Top 100" award stands for innovation, curiosity and team spirit. On June 27th, the most ...

Improved quality control of silicon carbide epiwafers by a new fast and contactless inline inspection tool

01-Jul-2014 - A new fast and contactless Defect Luminescence Scanner (DLS) for photoluminescence imaging of 4H-SiC epiwafers was developed under coordination of Fraunhofer IISB together with Intego GmbH. This DLS system enables a more efficient optimization of the production process of SiC epiwafers as well as ...

Nanoscale Velcro used for Molecule Transport

01-Jul-2014 - Biological membranes are like a guarded border. They separate the cell from the environment and at the same time control the import and export of molecules. The nuclear membrane can be crossed via many tiny pores. Scientists at the Biozentrum and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute at the University ...

A breakthrough for organic reactions in water

01-Jul-2014 - Green-chemistry researchers at McGill University have discovered a way to use water as a solvent in one of the reactions most widely used to synthesize chemical products and pharmaceuticals. The findings mark a potential milestone in efforts to develop organic reactions in water. Chao-Jun Li and ...

Animal testing methods for endocrine disruptors should change, team argues

Review suggests that oral gavage, the accepted method of dosing lab animals to test chemical toxicity, does not accurately mimic how humans are exposed to chemicals in everyday life

30-Jun-2014 - Challenging risk assessment methods used for decades by toxicologists, a new review of the literature led by environmental health scientist Laura Vandenberg at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that oral gavage, the most widely accepted method of dosing lab animals to test chemical ...

New blood test identifies risk “Sudden Cardiac Death”

27-Jun-2014 - UAntwerp (University of Antwerp), UZA (Antwerp University Hospital), and Multiplicom NV together developed a blood test to determine the genetic risk of “Sudden Cardiac Death” (SCD). This test, called PED MASTR, is already in use at the center of medical genetics of UZA/UAntwerp and will be ...

Spectris acquires Corporate Scientific Claisse Inc.

24-Jun-2014 - Spectris plc announces that it has acquired the business and assets of the Canadian company La Corporation Scientifique Claisse Inc. (‘Claisse’). Revenues for the year ending March 2014 were CAD 13 million.Claisse designs, manufactures and sells consumables and instruments used to prepare ...

Researchers 'cage' water to see it change form

18-Jun-2014 - Scientists are using a pioneering method of 'caging' and cooling water molecules to study the change in orientation of the magnetic nuclei at the centre of each hydrogen atom - a process which transforms the molecule from one form of water to another. By trapping water molecules in carbon spheres ...

Automating Laboratory-On-A-Chip To Cut Healthcare Costs

Computer programming language automates “laboratory-on-a-chip” technologies and has potential to improve and reduce cost of healthcare

17-Jun-2014 - A research team at the University of California, Riverside has created a computer programming language that will automate “laboratory-on-a-chip” technologies used in DNA sequencing, drug discovery, virus detection and other biomedical applications.“If you think of the beginning of computers they ...

Researchers identify regulation process of protein linked to bipolar disorder

Resting neurons actively regulate gene expression through calcium signaling

16-Jun-2014 - Researchers from Tufts have gained new insight into a protein associated with bipolar disorder. The study, published in Science Signaling, reveals that calcium channels in resting neurons activate the breakdown of Sp4, which belongs to a class of proteins called transcription factors that ...