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By Heather Hall | February 25, 2021

Scientists study how to reduce airborne spread of COVID-19 virus particles

By Anne Stark, LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are leveraging their extensive experience studying the movement of airborne hazards to better understand the movement of virus-like particles through the air and to identify effective countermeasures. While the burden of airborne diseases is known to be large, its true scope is underappreciated. LLNL researchers…

By Heather Hall | February 25, 2021

Malvern Panalytical’s new Aeris: a compact XRD system making a big impact

Malvern Panalytical, a leading analytical instruments and services supplier, this week launched a new version of its Aeris compact X-ray diffractometer (XRD). Aeris is a small-footprint system with a big heart, and even bigger ambitions. This new version contains capabilities previously only seen in much larger systems, powering exciting leaps forward in scientific progress. Building…

By Heather Hall | February 25, 2021

Life sciences industry must prioritize skills development in 2021

By John Wise, Operations Team Member and Dr. Steve Arlington, President Pistoia Alliance One of the side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been its impact on digital transformation of the workplace and the lab. How and where we work, and how we conduct research, is changing considerably. Developments in technology have delivered significant benefits…

By Heather Hall | February 24, 2021

Graphene oxide membranes could reduce paper industry energy costs

By Anne Wainscott-Sargent Georgia Institute of Technology The U.S. pulp and paper industry uses large quantities of water to produce cellulose pulp from trees. The water leaving the pulping process contains a number of organic byproducts and inorganic chemicals. To reuse the water and the chemicals, paper mills rely on steam-fed evaporators that boil up…

By Heather Hall | February 24, 2021

JEOL introduces new time-of-flight mass spectrometer

JEOL builds upon its AccuTOF GC series gas chomatograph – time-of-flight mass spectrometers with the release of the JMS-T2000GC “AccuTOF GC-Alpha”. This product is a GC-MS that represents significant improvement in performance and functionality using two newly developed key technologies. The basic hardware performance has been greatly improved and a new generation of automated data…

By Heather Hall | February 23, 2021

DARPA backs Rice sensor to detect COVID-19 virus in air

By Mike Williams, Rice University Researchers at Rice University have received funding for up to $1 million to develop a real-time sensor system able to detect minute amounts of the airborne virus that causes COVID-19 infection. The researchers at Rice’s Brown School of Engineering and Wiess School of Natural Sciences — chemical and biomolecular engineer…

By Heather Hall | February 23, 2021

R&D 100 winner of the day: CURENT Large Scale Testbed (LTB)

The CURENT Large Scale Testbed (LTB), from CURENT Research Center, is the first of its kind to provide a virtual electric power grid for researchers to experiment with closed-loop controls and algorithms. Research and application ideas can be quickly and seamlessly integrated for verification in this virtual power system. Without CURENT LTB, researchers have to…

By Heather Hall | February 23, 2021

ScienceLogic raises $105M in new financing to accelerate leadership in growing AIOps market

ScienceLogic, a provider of AI-driven monitoring solutions for hybrid cloud management, announced today that it has raised $105 million in growth financing. Silver Lake Waterman  led the company’s Series E round with participation from existing investors Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital and NewView Capital. The investment will support the company’s continued innovation in the AIOps market…

By Paul Heney | February 22, 2021

2021 Global R&D Funding Forecast released

By Tim Studt, Contributing Editor For 62 years, R&D World and its predecessors have published an annual R&D funding forecast. These reports predict the combined dollar amount of R&D investments expected by industry, government and academia for the upcoming calendar year. Over those years, the publications these reports have appeared in have changed their ownership…

By Heather Hall | February 22, 2021

R&D 100 winner of the day: Regional Energy Deployment System 2.0

As a state-of-the-art capacity expansion planning model, Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) 2.0 provides unprecedented insight into how policy, economic, technology and regulatory variables will shape the transformation of the sector through 2050. ReEDS 2.0 empowers more users to make better-informed decisions that are pivotal to power system optimization because: It is freely available; has…

By Heather Hall | February 22, 2021

R&D World Index: Honda’s R&D head promoted to CEO

The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending February 19, 2021 closed at 4,489.91 for the 25 companies in the R&D World Index. The Index was down 1.21% (or 54.78 basis points) from the week ending February 12, 2021. The stock of six R&D World Index members gained value from 0.97% (Bristol-Myers Squibb) to…

By Heather Hall | February 19, 2021

Toward a disease-sniffing device that rivals a dog’s nose

By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Numerous studies have shown that trained dogs can detect many kinds of disease —  including lung, breast, ovarian, bladder and prostate cancers, and possibly Covid-19 — simply through smell. In some cases, involving prostate cancer for example, the dogs had a 99% success rate in detecting the…

By Heather Hall | February 19, 2021

New Integrated High-Performance Liquid Chromatographs incorporate analytical intelligence for higher efficiency and productivity

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments announces the new i-Series LC-2050/LC-2060 Integrated High-Performance Liquid Chromatographs (HPLC). Building on the exceptional performance of previous versions, the i-Series LC-2050/LC-2060 models incorporate analytical intelligence functions, enable complete automation from startup to analysis preparations, and allow remote monitoring and data processing. Analytical intelligence advancements in the i-Series systems include real-time mobile phase…

By Heather Hall | February 18, 2021

MilliporeSigma enhances Design for Sustainability framework, offers customers data-driven insights for greener solutions

MilliporeSigma has launched an enhanced Design for Sustainability (DfS) framework, a unique approach to holistically integrate sustainability into products, systems and services. With the introduction of DfS, MilliporeSigma leads the life science industry in ensuring that sustainability is at the forefront of each stage of the product life cycle. This important strategic initiative supports the…

By Heather Hall | February 18, 2021

Airplanes to cellphones: New equipment finds the flaws in everything

By Michael Langley Tim Briggs has built a career at Sandia National Laboratories tearing and breaking things apart with his team of collaborators. Now, he’s developed a fracture-testing tool that could help make everything from aircraft structural frames to cellphones stronger. Briggs has filed a patent for a device associated with bonded structural composite materials…

By Heather Hall | February 18, 2021

R&D 100 winner of the day: Electric Thermal Energy Storage – Key Element for the Energy Transition

The energy system is currently facing several challenges, including grid stability problems, the curtailment of renewable energy (RE), security of supply and an imbalance between supply and demand in the RE generation. The aim of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy’s Electric Thermal Energy Storage (ETES) making it possible to increase the share of RE in total…

By Heather Hall | February 17, 2021

New, online 2D-LC System empowers scientists to confidently characterize complex samples

Thermo Scientific Vanquish Online 2D-Liquid Chromatography (LC) systems offer a robust and flexible platform for pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical R&D, food safety, environmental testing, omics and polymer analysis scientists to characterize complex samples in-depth with the highest confidence. The Vanquish Online 2D-LC system leverages the performance and ease of use of the innovative Vanquish technology, while offering maximum…

By Heather Hall | February 17, 2021

R&D 100 winner of the day: The NIRCrop Scanner, Handheld Sensor for Screening Crop Quality

The traditional method for evaluating crop quality is to send samples to a lab for testing, which is costly and time-consuming. The agriculture industry has a clear need for a user-friendly technology that provides crop composition analysis — i.e., quality evaluation — in situ and at a reasonable price. The NIRCrop Scanner, Handheld Sensor for…

By Heather Hall | February 17, 2021

SPT Labtech acquires BioMicroLab expanding its offering in sample management for life sciences

SPT Labtech, designer and developer of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, announces the acquisition of BioMicroLab, a robotics automation provider for life science laboratories. Headquartered in Northern California, BioMicroLab designs and manufactures laboratory automation equipment for biotechnology and scientific research. BioMicroLab’s extensive range of sample handling and tracking solutions complements SPT Labtech’s…

By Heather Hall | February 17, 2021

LF Energy partners with Sony Computer Science Laboratories to launch opensource microgrid project

LF Energy, a Linux Foundation nonprofit seeking to accelerate the energy transition of the world’s grids and transportation systems through open source, along with its newest member, Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL), a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, announced today Hyphae, a microgrid initiative to automate the peer-to-peer distribution of renewable energy. With energy resources and infrastructure…

By Heather Hall | February 16, 2021

President of the Pistoia Alliance: “Let’s not wait another 100 years to collaborate”

Dr. Steve Arlington, president of the Pistoia Alliance, a global not-for-profit advocating for greater collaboration in biopharma, has called on the life science industry to learn the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and seek out more opportunities to collaborate. COVID-19 dealt the sector a complex challenge, but it has also been a catalyst for organizations…

By Heather Hall | February 16, 2021

R&D 100 winner of the day: Keylime

Keylime, developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, is a free, open-source key bootstrapping and integrity management software architecture designed to increase the security and privacy of Edge/Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Keylime enables users to securely bootstrap secrets (e.g., cryptographic keys, passwords and certificates) without divulging them unnecessarily and to continuously verify trust in…

By Heather Hall | February 15, 2021

A machine-learning approach to finding treatment options for Covid-19

Written by Daniel Ackerman, MIT News Office When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, doctors and researchers rushed to find effective treatments. There was little time to spare. “Making new drugs takes forever,” says Caroline Uhler, a computational biologist in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems…

By Tim Studt | February 15, 2021

R&D World Index: Increased R&D making more EV models available in 2021

The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending February 12, 2021 closed at 4,544.69 for the 25 companies in the R&D World Index. The Index was up 0.57% (or 25.98 basis points) from the week ending February 5, 2021. The stock of 13 R&D World Index members gained value from 0.30% (Alphabet/Google) to 6.38%…

By Heather Hall | February 12, 2021

R&D 100 winner of the day: Multi-burn Solid Rocket: Revolutionizing heritage technology to solve emerging space problems

For low-cost small satellites to tackle emerging commercial, scientific and national security missions they need to be capable of maneuvering while still being compatible with rideshare. To responsibly manage our ever more crowded orbit zones into the future, all satellites will soon be required to de-orbit at end-of-life and avoid collisions with space debris at…

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