Ultrafast lasers probe elusive chemistry at the liquid-liquid interface
(DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Real-time measurements captured by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory provide missing insight into chemical separations to recover cobalt, a critical raw material used to make batteries and magnets for modern technologies. Results published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces track the dynamics of molecules designed to grab cobalt from solutions containing a mixture of similar species. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - August 4, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Broadstep Behavioral Health moving local office to West Allis
Broadstep Behavioral Health Inc. will move its Wisconsin business office from Milwaukee to the Allis Yards redevelopment.
The company leased about 12,000 square feet in the office building Cobalt Partners Inc. renovated at 1205 S. 70th St. in West Allis, according to an email from Scott Yauck, Cobalt president and CEO.
Broadstep will open in Allis Yards in October, according to a Wednesday release by real estate firm CBRE. Broadstep provides services to the mental health community. The new… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - July 8, 2020 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Sean Ryan Source Type: news
Broadstep Behavioral Health moving local office to West Allis
Broadstep Behavioral Health Inc. will move its Wisconsin business office from Milwaukee to the Allis Yards redevelopment.
The company leased about 12,000 square feet in the office building Cobalt Partners Inc. renovated at 1205 S. 70th St. in West Allis, according to an email from Scott Yauck, Cobalt president and CEO.
Broadstep will open in Allis Yards in October, according to a Wednesday release by real estate firm CBRE. Broadstep provides services to the mental health community. The new… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - July 8, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sean Ryan Source Type: news
All of the performance, none of the fuss: Nitrile hydrogenation done right
(Osaka University) Researchers developed a nano-cobalt phosphide catalyst (nano-Co2P) for the hydrogenation of nitriles to primary amines. The catalyst was stable in air and achieved activity up to 500-fold higher than other catalysts. A range of nitriles were hydrogenated at ambient pressure, making nano-Co2P the first earth-abundant metal catalyst to be effective under mild conditions. It will have a significant impact on the efficiency and sustainability of synthesizing products from dyes to pharmaceuticals. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 16, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Download high-quality graphics from the NCBI Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer (MSAV)
You can now download a publication-quality graphic images of the alignment displayed in the NCBI Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer (Figure 1). Load sequence alignments into the viewer from BLAST or COBALT results or upload alignment files directly. Once you have … Continue reading → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - May 29, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New BLAST COBALT Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer sequences Source Type: news
Will Medtronic Emerge from the Pandemic Even Stronger?
As MD+DI reported in April, Medtronic was already bracing for its fiscal fourth quarter to reflect significant revenue declines, thanks to COVID-19. Â But CEO Geoff Martha said the company is focused on emerging from this pandemic even stronger. He even hinted that we could see more tuck-in acquisitions going forward, as the current environment does make it a good time for M&A.
Given the progression of COVID-19 around the world and the timing of the company’s fiscal quarter, Medtronic’s fourth quarter includes an additional month of impact compared to companies...
Source: MDDI - May 22, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: COVID-19 Business Source Type: news
Details of cobalt's ups and downs
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Source: ScienceNOW - April 1, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Yeston, J. Tags: twil Source Type: news
A Drug Developed to Fight Ebola Could Hold Hope for Coronavirus Treatment
Last year, when I visited the town of Beni, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), people did not shake hands. Bottles of disinfectant and buckets of chlorinated water were at the entrance of every business. Misinformation spread across social networks and on news-sites, and treatment centers in the northeastern province of North Kivu were being attacked by armed militias.
At the time, Beni was one of the centers of a devastating Ebola outbreak, the second most deadly in world history. According to the World Health Organization, almost 3,500 people were sickened by the virus, and more than 2,000 died, a case fatali...
Source: TIME: Health - April 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Nicolas Niarchos Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
The Sanders Trust acquires New Orleans rehabilitation hospital
The Sanders Trust has acquired the $29 million dollar Cobalt Rehabilitation Hospital in New Orleans, expanding the company ’s reach to Louisiana.
The hospital is a 60-bed facility built in 2016 and was operated by Cobalt Rehabilitation until late 2019, when Dallas-based Curahealth completed the acquisition of all Cobalt operations.
According to The Sanders Trust, it has acquired the real estate and the 65,345-sq uare-foot facility; it will continue to be operated by Curahealth/Cobalt on a long-term… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 19, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Tyler Patchen Source Type: news
Cobalt in lithium-ion batteries
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Source: ScienceNOW - February 26, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Li, M., Lu, J. Tags: Chemistry perspective Source Type: news
Uganda: Uganda Cancer Institute Commissions New Radiotherapy Machine
[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -A new cancer machine has been officially commissioned at Uganda Cancer Institute. The machine will enable the institution to receive up to 30,000 cancer patients annually and run with two cobalt 60 radiotherapy machines. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 19, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
China battery recycler GEM to make disinfectants in virus epicenter
China's GEM Co Ltd, best known as a recycler of batteries for electric vehicles and producer of cobalt chemicals used in them, said on Sunday it had been given a four-month license to make disinfectant in coronavirus-hit Hubei province. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Energy storage startup SPARKZ licenses ORNL cobalt-free battery tech
(DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Energy storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed to eliminate cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. The advancement is aimed at accelerating the production of electric vehicles and energy storage solutions for the power grid. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 5, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news
ICDs Have Come a Long Way in 40 Years
Michel Mirowski and his colleagues gave the field of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) a pretty good start, but what's more impressive is how far the technology has advanced since that first human ICD implant in February 1980. In the past 40 years we've seen ICDs become dramatically smaller, longer lasting, more capable, more personalized, subcutaneous (non-transvenous), and even MRI-firendly. And that's not to mention the advanced data connectivity and monitoring capabilities that the latest technologies offer. So without further ado, let's take a look at the current ICD landscape and the companie...
Source: MDDI - February 4, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: Implants Source Type: news
Highly active cationic cobalt(II) hydroformylation catalysts
The cobalt complexes HCo(CO)4 and HCo(CO)3(PR3) were the original industrial catalysts used for the hydroformylation of alkenes through reaction with hydrogen and carbon monoxide to produce aldehydes. More recent and expensive rhodium-phosphine catalysts are hundreds of times more active and operate under considerably lower pressures. Cationic cobalt(II) bisphosphine hydrido-carbonyl catalysts that are far more active than traditional neutral cobalt(I) catalysts and approach rhodium catalysts in activity are reported here. These catalysts have low linear-to-branched (L:B) regioselectivity for simple linear alkenes. However...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 29, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Hood, D. M., Johnson, R. A., Carpenter, A. E., Younker, J. M., Vinyard, D. J., Stanley, G. G. Tags: Chemistry r-articles Source Type: news
