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50th anniversary of the world’s leading innovation event

Editorial Team Aug 26, 2016

Cementing CES' place in history as the global gathering place for innovation and technology, 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the world's leading innovation event. Since its start in 1967, CES has showcased an estimated 700,000 products.…

Trends

WITI and 451 Research report on women in STEM

Editorial Team Aug 26, 2016

The findings from their survey examining the impact of gender in the workplace for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields, have been released by Women in Technology International (WITI) and 451 Research. Titled “Wanted:…

Trends

Tiny organic “factories” produce flavor and fragrance

Editorial Team Aug 26, 2016

According to MIT spinout Ginkgo Bioworks, biology is the world’s greatest manufacturing platform. The synthetic-biology startup is re-engineering yeast to act as tiny organic “factories” that produce chemicals for the flavor, fragrance, and…

Power

GaN power IC enables true universal chargers

Editorial Team Aug 26, 2016

It has been announced by Dialog Semiconductor that it is demonstrating its first Gallium Nitride (GaN) power IC product offering, using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation’s (TSMCs) 650V GaN-on-Silicon process technology. The…

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Research reveals more to rainbows than meets the eye

Editorial Team Aug 26, 2016

Studying the multicolored arcs of scattered light we call rainbows can be incredibly useful and insightful in ways that may not immediately spring to mind. Rainbow effects can warn of chemical contamination in the atmosphere, help to…

Medical

Ultraviolet light shines on target cells for gene editing

Editorial Team Aug 25, 2016

CRISPR, the genome-editing system, allows scientists to delete or replace any target gene in a living cell. MIT researchers have now added an extra layer of control over when and where this gene editing occurs, by making the system…

Medical

Blood barcodes enable stem cell research

Editorial Team Aug 25, 2016

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made it possible to monitor large blood cell populations as well as individual blood cells, and study the changes over time by assigning a barcode to stem cells. Among other things, they…

Medical

Validated research on nanoparticles to aim blood clots

Editorial Team Aug 25, 2016

Saving lives often comes down to stopping the bleeding as quickly as possible. Many methods for controlling external bleeding exist, but at this point, only surgery can halt blood loss inside the body from injury to internal organs. Now,…

Medical

Hydrogel materials eliminate need for open-chest surgery

Editorial Team Aug 25, 2016

Clots or narrowed arteries block blood flow during a heart attack, harming or killing cells within the tissue. But the damage doesn't end after the crushing pain subsides. Instead, the heart's walls thin out, the organ becomes enlarged, and…

Medical

Batteries made with melanin pigments

Editorial Team Aug 25, 2016

For diagnosing and treating disease, non-toxic, edible batteries could one day power ingestible devices. One team reports progress toward that goal with their batteries made with melanin pigments, naturally found in the skin, hair and eyes.…