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Salvador Dalí (Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí) A collaboration of British, Spanish, and Slovenian chemistry researchers and fine art conservation specialists devised a technique adapted from the life sciences to test the ability of paintings to withstand the rigors of travel without damaging the works of art. The team led by Matija Strlic of the . . . → Read More: Near-Infrared Light Tests Paintings’ Ability to Travel  Comments are closed  Joint ventures/collaborations, New products  chemistry, Europe, life sciences, physical sciences, physics, statistics, U.K., university Model of head struck by softball (Washington State University) Engineers at Washington State University in Pullman built a system that lets sports scientists measure the impact of a softball hitting a player’s head to simulate potential injuries based on the properties of the ball. Washington State engineering professor Lloyd Smith and project engineer Derek . . . → Read More: System Measures Ball-Head Impact to Simulate Sports Injuries Comments are closed New products biomedical, computer science, engineering, life sciences, materials science, physical sciences, physics, software, university Gopal Achari, left, and Cooper Langford in front of their mobile PCB clean-up unit (Riley Brandt, University of Calgary) A team of engineers and chemists at University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada devised a new process for cleaning soil contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs, cancer-causing chemicals banned in the U.S. since 1979, . . . → Read More: Safer, Cheaper Ultraviolet PCB Disposal Process Developed Comments are closed New products, Regulations Canada, cancer, chemistry, energy, engineering, manufacturing, patent, physical sciences, university, water Sarah Warnes, foreground, and Bill Keevil (University of Southampton) Biologists at University of Southampton in the U.K. found surfaces made of copper and copper alloys can quickly destroy norovirus, the pathogen causing acute gastroenteritis. Researcher Sarah Warnes and Bill Keevil, director of the university’s Environmental Healthcare Unit, published their findings earlier this week in . . . → Read More: Copper and Copper Alloys Found to Destroy Norovirus Comments are closed New products, Regulations biomedical, Europe, genomics, life sciences, physical sciences, U.K., university Naomi Bardach (University of California at San Francisco) A test of financial incentives for delivering high quality health care shows patients of medical providers receiving those pay-for-performance incentives have better outcomes for a number of common conditions than patients receiving care through the traditional fee-for-service model. The research team from University of California in . . . → Read More: Quality Incentives Found Effective for Health Care Outcomes Dean Ho (University of California in Los angeles) Researchers at University of California in Los Angeles, with colleagues from Northwestern University and Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, developed a more precise delivery method for chemotherapy drugs using nanoscale diamonds to treat brain tumors. The team that included participants from the lab of UCLA biomedical . . . → Read More: Nanodiamonds Improve Chemotherapy Targeting for Brain Tumors Comments are closed New products biomedical, cancer, engineering, life sciences, medical device, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, physical sciences, university Fall detection radio-frequency sensor (Dan Hixson, University of Utah) Engineers at University of Utah in Salt Lake City developed a system combining wireless radio-wave sensors and a control algorithm to detect a person falling, without the individual wearing a separate device. Graduate student Brad Mager, representing the Utah team, presents the findings of a . . . → Read More: Wireless Sensor System Detects Occurrence of Elderly Falls One comment - (Comments are closed) New products biomedical, computer science, engineering, entrepreneurs, mathematics, medical device, physical sciences, software, university Disk-shaped bio-compatible sponge contains deactivated cells from a patient’s melanoma tumors. (Amos Chan, Harvard University) Engineering and medical researchers at Harvard University, with colleagues from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, started an early-stage clinical trial testing an implanted vaccine to treat melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer.The trial is designed primarily to test the . . . → Read More: Clinical Trial Tests Implantable Melanoma Vaccine Comments are closed New products, Regulations biomedical, clinical trials, engineering, life sciences, medical device, pharmaceuticals, university StartX management team, L-R: Divya Nag, founder and CEO Cameron Teitelman, and John Melas-Kyriazi (Stanford University/StartX) Stanford University and its hospital system, with the business accelerator program StartX, unveiled a three-year, $3.6 million fund to support early-stage enterprises started by Stanford-affiliated entrepreneurs. StartX is a training and mentoring program for founders of new companies . . . → Read More: Stanford University Adds Funds for Start-Up Accelerator Shofar, a ram’s horn sounded during Jewish high holiday services (A. Kotok) The Jewish new year starts tonight and extends through tomorrow night, so Science and Enterprise will not be published tomorrow, 5 September. We wish everyone a wonderful and peaceful new year. Science and Enterprise will be back on Friday 6 September. . . . → Read More: Shanah Tovah 5774 |
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