Archive for the ‘From the Wire’ Category
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Advanced Medical Solutions Group plc (Winsford, United Kingdom) has announced a collaboration with University of Chester’s Faculty of Health and Social Care (Chester, United Kingdom) on a wound care educational programme.
The programme will be offered to healthcare professionals in a series of five modules, including basic skin anatomy and physiology, ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
The UK Technology Strategy Board has announced two new funding competitions as part of its £21.5 million Regenerative Medicine Programme. Under the heading of Regenerative Medicine Programme: Tools and Technologies, the Technology Strategy Board, Medical Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
New research at Rice University ultimately could show scientists the way to make batches of nanotubes of a single type. A paper in the online journal Physical Review Letters unveils an elegant formula by Rice University physicist Boris Yakobson and his colleagues that defines the energy of a piece of ...
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
The Technology Review has reported that researchers at Harvard University have developed a noninvasive imaging technique that captures images at the molecular level so quickly that they can "watch" red blood cells move through capillaries. The system uses two laser beams set at different frequencies to excite ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
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From the Wire: Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new, carbon-based nanoscale platform to electrically detect single DNA molecules. Using electric fields, the tiny DNA strands are pushed through nanoscale-sized, atomically thin pores on a graphene platform ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
In the future, electronic visual displays could be made brighter, clearer and more energy-efficient as a result of a process developed by a team of researchers from Canada and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The synthesis of a conjugated organic polymer—widely used as a conductive material ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
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Inspired by the social interactions of ants and slime molds, University of Pittsburgh engineers have designed artificial cells capable of self-organising into independent groups that can communicate ...
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
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From the Wire: The University of Strathclyde has secured a spin-out deal to form a company working in the field of novel next-generation light source technology. Known as mLED Ltd, the company will work to open up a range of opportunities in multi-billion dollar applications ...
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
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From the Wire: Organic semiconductors are promising candidates as starting materials for the manufacture of cheap, large area and flexible electronic ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
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Scientists from four universities in the United States have created a way to use light-activated nanoshells as building blocks for 2D and 3D structures. The structures could be used in chemical sensors, nanolasers and light-absorbing ...
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
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From the Wire: Researchers from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have ...
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