By Aliyah Kovner, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Vaccines are turning the tide in the pandemic, but the risk of infection is still present in some situations. If you want to visit a friend, get on a plane, or go see a movie, there is no highly accurate, instant test that can tell you right then and…

Blackrock Neurotech, a brain-computer interface (BCI) technology innovator and manufacturer, has presented recently published research in Science Magazine by the University of Pittsburgh’s Rehab Neural Engineering Labs called “A brain-computer interface that evokes tactile sensations improves robotic arm control.” The research team used Blackrock’s NeuroPort System to control a bidirectional prosthetic arm to restore function…

By Daniel Ackerman | MIT News Office Over the years, robots have gotten quite good at identifying objects — as long as they’re out in the open. Discerning buried items in granular material like sand is a taller order. To do that, a robot would need fingers that were slender enough to penetrate the sand,…

By Luke Frank, Sandia National Laboratory There’s a tiny hidden gem at Sandia National Laboratories that tests the strength and evaluates the impact properties of any solid natural or manmade material on the planet. From its humble beginnings as a small storage room, mechanical engineer Bo Song has built a singular Experimental Impact Mechanics Lab…

A polymer-based membrane could be used as a drug delivery platform. Developed by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, the membrane is made from threads of a polymer commonly used in vascular sutures. It can be loaded with therapeutic drugs and implanted in the body before mechanical forces activate its electric potential, slowly releasing…

On June 2, 2021, JEOL will focus on advances in life science research using electron microscopy and NMR spectroscopy in its “24 Hours of Life Science” conference. Twenty-four different sessions throughout the full day will cover topics including: Connectomics and the study of complete volumes of tissues or materials captured at high resolution Correlative microscopy…

The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending May 21, 2021 closed at 4,827.88 for the 25 companies in the R&D World Index. The Index was up 0.74% (or 35.28 basis points) from the week ending May 14, 2021. The stock of 19 R&D World Index members gained value from 0.04% (IBM) to 12.58%…

  ThermoFisher Scientific is offering an online event on Wednesday, May 26, featuring Cryo-electron microscopy, mass spectrometry and structural biology. During this special live one-day event, you’ll have an opportunity to learn how combining mass spectrometry and cryo-EM allows structural biologists to achieve unparalleled results in their quest to understand macromolecular functions. You will also…

GenElute-E Single Spin purification kits improve productivity in the lab through a more flexible and streamlined nucleic acid purification process. “Especially now, when many researchers cannot be in the lab as much or as often as they would like, we want to streamline their efforts on long, manual processes and avoid hazardous liquid waste,” said…

By Chris Cogswell, Customer Consultant, Elsevier Aviation is one of the industries that stands to benefit most from advanced material development, particularly when it comes to new, lightweight materials. Currently the industry, like many others, is facing a very uncertain time as it navigates the COVID-19 crisis. However, this period could prove to be a…

TWAICE, a battery analytics software company that enhances transparency and predictability of batteries, announced it has raised $26 million in Series B funding. Led by global alternative investment manager Energize Ventures, including help from participating investors brought TWAICE’s total financing to $45 million. The funds will be used to expand core capabilities such as the…

By Michael Langley, Sandia National Laboratory The weather on March 6, 1981, was nothing too remarkable for the San Francisco Bay Area — a little drizzle with temperatures in the 50s and fairly calm wind. The remarkable event that day was taking place on Sandia National Laboratories’ California campus, but even those who participated in…

Lonza has launched the next generation of its popular Nucleofector Platform. For more than 20 years, Nucleofector Technology has been an effective non-viral cell transfection method, which can be used even for hard-to-transfect cells, such as primary cells and pluripotent stem cells. Now, with an updated core unit and even more intuitive software, the next…

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has named Charles Fracchia, founder of Dotmatics BioBright, to its Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group for a three-year term beginning this summer. The group brings 30 of the brightest scientists and engineers together to identify new areas of development in computer and communication technologies, and…

Analytical techniques seek to increase performance and power efficiency Lithium-ion batteries are the future of renewable energy. Few know this better than CAMECA, a business unit of AMETEK and a global leader in elemental and isotopic microanalysis. A four-time R&D 100 Awards recipient, CAMECA provides transformational characterization technology for lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. CAMECA is a…

The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending May 14, 2021 closed at 4,792.60 for the 25 companies in the R&D World Index. The Index was down 2.00% (or -97.77 basis points) from the week ending May 7, 2021. The stock of 12 R&D World Index members gained value from 0.17% (Ford Motor Co.)…

Pharma and biotech laboratories performing high-throughput and high-content screening and molecular cell biology can now benefit from a series of new automated incubators and storage solutions that offer a large capacity, fast access and wide temperature range, while helping eliminate contamination issues in high-throughput environments. The Thermo Scientific Cytomat 24 automated incubators and storage systems…

PerkinElmer. has entered into an agreement to acquire Nexcelom Bioscience for $260 Million. The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of 2021. Nexcelom is a provider of automated cell counting instruments, image cytometry workstations, assays and a variety of cell reagents, consumables, and fit-for-purpose cell counting method selection and development instructions that follow ISO…

Enterprise literature management company DeepDyve introduces the DeepDyve Digital Library, the industry’s first fully integrated platform aimed at helping organizations discover, access and manage research papers. The Digital Library is a one-stop platform designed for small to medium-sized teams and organizations needing easy and affordable solutions for reading and organizing scientific papers. This new offering…

By Jeremy Thomas, LLNL Thin-film electrodes developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been used in human patients at the University of California, San Francisco, generating never-before-seen recordings of brain activity in the hippocampus, a region responsible for memory and other cognitive functions. In a study published today in the journal Nature Communications, surgeons at…

Sustainable protein company Unibio has signed a partnership agreement with Stafilies, the holding company of Protelux, to further deepen their collaboration in developing the industrial-scale production of its high-quality Uniprotein at Protelux. Protelux is the first industrial plant that has brought Unibio’s patented U-Loop continuous-flow fermentation process into industrial-scale production. Protelux is located in Ivangorod,…

Sensofar, a technology company specializing in the field of non-contact surface metrology, has developed a new technique for characterizing the evolution of a sample’s surface topography with temperature using the S neox 3D optical profiler and Linnik interferometer coupled with Linkam’s LTS420 temperature-controlled chamber. The technique has been used to successfully map the changes in…

U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is presenting “Materials for Printed Hybrid Electronics.” a free webinar in the “Frontiers in Materials Manufacturing” webinar series, Wednesday, May 19, 2021 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. CT (2 – 4 p.m. E.T.) Advancements in material and device fabrication technologies have enabled the proliferation of low-cost, low-power, printed…

The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending May 7, 2021 closed at 4,890.37 for the 25 companies in the R&D World Index. The Index was up 0.78% (or 37.63 basis points) from the week ending April 30, 2021. The stock of 20 R&D World Index members gained value from 0.11% (Microsoft) to 6.08%…

By Ivy Kupec, EMBL To observe the swift neuronal signals in a fish brain, scientists have started to use a technique called light-field microscopy, which makes it possible to image such fast biological processes in 3D. But the images are often lacking in quality, and it takes hours or days for massive amounts of data…