A new documentary – Quantum Technology | Our Sustainable Future from The Quantum Daily, developed in partnership with Oxford Instruments Nanoscience – was released today with a call from industry experts to leverage the power of quantum computing in addressing the world’s urgent sustainability challenges. The global premiere of Quantum Technology | Our Sustainable Future is…

PerkinElmer announced they have four new ready-to-use AlphaLISA KRAS kits, designed to help scientists better understand complex KRAS protein structures and mutations so they can more easily, quickly and precisely identify potential new therapeutic candidates for a wide range of prevalent cancers. Researchers will now be able to choose between PerkinElmer’s HTRF or AlphaLISA assays…

Atlas Antibodies has agreed to acquire evitria, developer of transient recombinant antibody expression in CHO cells. This transformative acquisition brings together a leading provider of highly validated research antibodies and a front-runner in the field of custom recombinant antibody expression. Since its inception in 2010, evitria has been singularly focused on transient expression of recombinant…

Zeiss introduces two new reconstruction technologies that use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve data collection and analysis and significantly speed up decision making. Now available for the Advanced Reconstruction Toolkit (ART) on Zeiss Xradia 3D X-ray platforms are Zeiss DeepRecon Pro and Zeiss PhaseEvolve modules increase throughput by up to 10x while producing better than…

By Brian Huchel, Purdue University Imagine an aircraft flying 2,800 miles across the United States in only 15 minutes. A state-of the-art building ready for construction at Purdue University will provide the facilities to explore that idea through advanced hypersonic research. The planned 65,000-ft2 Hypersonic Applied Research Facility (HARF) will house two cutting-edge wind tunnels,…

By Yong Zhu and Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University Researchers at North Carolina State University demonstrated a low-cost technique for retrieving nanowires from electronic devices that have reached the end of their utility and then using those nanowires in new devices. The work is a step toward more sustainable electronics. “There is a lot…

By John Skero, Director of Product Management at Elsevier The process of extracting natural resources has formed the backbone of modern economies – whether this be mining, forestry or oil and gas exploration. But today, many organizations have recognized the urgent need to find ways to produce natural resources in a more sustainable way. This…

PerkinElmer has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire BioLegend, a provider of life science antibodies and reagents, for approximately $5.25 billion in a combination of cash and stock, subject to certain adjustments. BioLegend provides its academic and biopharmaceutical customers with best-in-class antibodies and reagents in high-growth areas such as cytometry, proteogenomics, multiplex…

Zeiss is introducing a new groundbreaking solution for petrographic analysis. Zeiss Axioscan 7 expands the possibilities of automated petrography by combining unique motorized polarization acquisition modes with unprecedented speed and a rich software ecosystem for visualization, analysis and collaboration. Fully automated acquisition now comes with unprecedented speed across even the largest sample collections. Coupled with…

The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending July 23, 2021 closed at 5,383.88 for the 25 companies in the R&D World Index. The Index was up 3.46% (or 179.98 basis points) from the week ending July 16, 2021. The stock of 16 R&D World Index members gained value from 0.23% (Oracle) to 8.39%…

I know how critical it is to be measured when setting expectations. In business, as in life, none of us aspire to overpromise and under-deliver. Indeed, as any business venture must do when communicating with investors and the public, we at Affimed are careful to use so-called “forward-looking statements” in laying out business goals. For…

PerkinElmer announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the PerkinElmer New Coronavirus Nucleic Acid Detection Kit for an additional indication that permits use of saliva as specimen type. The kit now has Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the qualitative detection of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2 in saliva specimens collected using the…

An overview of opportunities to advanced energy research using Atom Probe Tomography. According to experts, we’re well on our way to using fuel cells to generate clean and efficient electrical power for a wide range of applications —from transportation to material handling to backup power. The need to understand performance, durability, and other barriers to…

By Mollie Rappe, Sandia News Media Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have designed a new class of molten sodium batteries for grid-scale energy storage. The new battery design was shared in a paper published today in the scientific journal Cell Reports Physical Science. Molten sodium batteries have been used for many years to store energy…

By Holly Ober UC Riverside engineers will soon be using supercomputers and machine learning to control the behavior of materials with light. The project, a collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or LBNL, has received a $4 million grant from the Department of Energy to use high-performance exascale computing to control material systems with light.…

A team led by Tania Betancourt, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Texas State University, has received a six-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) grant of nearly $4 million to establish the Center for Intelligent Materials Assembly (CIMA). The PREM CIMA is a…

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been incorporated by the intergovernmental and International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) in its compendium of International Methods of Analysis of Wines and Musts, for the quantification of six key parameters in wine – glucose, malic acid, acetic acid, fumaric acid, shikimic acid and sorbic acid. Traditionally, several…

News provided by Group14 Technologies Group14 Technologies, a provider of silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets, announces a joint venture with SK materials, manufacturer of special gases and industrial gases, to build a factory for lithium-silicon battery materials in South Korea. The joint venture is the latest development for Group14 to secure dual sourcing for…

Thermo Fisher Scientific announces the Thermo Scientific Phenom Pharos G2 Desktop Field Emission Gun – Scanning Electron Microscope (FEG-SEM) designed to increase access to advanced nanomaterial research capabilities. The new instrument makes it possible for customers to use a tabletop microscope to intuitively characterize the size, shape and chemical composition of a wide range of…

SPT Labtech, a laboratory automation solutions company for the life sciences industry, announces changes in its leadership team to further capitalize on its organic and acquisition-led growth. David Newble has been appointed CEO, SPT Labtech, stepping up from his previous position as managing director. In his new capacity he takes responsibility for all SPT Labtech…

Lonza and CN Bio have entered into a distribution agreement whereby Lonza will supply a selection of hepatic cells to be prequalified by CN Bio for use in their PhysioMimix Single-and Multi-Organ MPS to transform the way human-relevant pre-clinical data is generated. With prequalified cells, customers can avoid having to trial numerous cell types to…

The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending July 16, 2021 closed at 5,203.90 for the 25 companies in the R&D World Index. The Index was up 0.27% (or 26.07 basis points) from the week ending July 9, 2021. The stock of 11 R&D World Index members gained value from 0.04% (Merck & Co.)…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces $28 million in funding for five research projects to develop software that will fully unleash the potential of DOE supercomputers to make new leaps in fields such as quantum information science and chemical reactions for clean energy applications. “DOE’s national labs are home to some of the world’s fastest…

The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, announces the second phase of its Semantic Enrichment of ELN Data (SEED) project. The project addresses the challenge facing R&D from the vast volumes of captured experimental data locked in Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs). These unusable and unsearchable data…

UCAP Power, a developer of ultracapacitor-based power solutions, has announced it has completed the purchase of Maxwell Technologies Korea, the Korean-based ultracapacitor business, as well as other related assets including the Maxwell brand. With the addition of these assets, which includes system patents and products, UCAP Power is building upon its foundation of success in…