XtalPi rides on AI to expand into materials science as Tencent-backed pharma firm plans expansion in Shanghai, Hong Kong
Shenzhen-based unicorn’s expanded focus to materials science aligns with a key strategic priority for China, as the industry is expected to reach 10 trillion yuan (US$1.48 trillion) by 2025.#shenzhen (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UCLA-developed soft brain probe could be a boon for depression research
Key takeawaysUCLA chemists ’ new probe is outfitted with biosensors designed to track specific neurotransmitters like serotonin.The probe is flexible enough to monitor the brains of research subjects as they move and perform everyday activities.The ability to continuously measure neurotransmitters would improve our understanding of how these chemicals affect psychological states.Anyone familiar with antidepressants like Prozac or Wellbutrin knows that these drugs boost levels of neurotransmitters in the brain like serotonin and dopamine, which are known to play an important role in mood and behavior.It might come as a su...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 16, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
John Palmour Changed Recipe for Making Microchips
As a graduate student in materials science in the early 1980s, John Palmour took a chance on an unproven way to make semiconductors, substituting silicon carbide for the usual pure silicon. Silicon carbide had long been seen as a promising chip material, especially in applications involving lots…#johnpalmour #thistargetpromo #friendsfamily #save #jcpenney #silicon #macy #michaelkors (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Forget Electric Cars, The Future of Battery Technology is in Airplanes
Richard Wang is trying to bring lighter, more powerful batteries to the world. The best way to do that, he says, is by electrifying airplanes.
Wang is the founder and CEO of battery startup Cuberg, which is trying to use new, advanced chemical combinations to develop better batteries than the lithium-ion cells that serve as workhorses for laptops, cell phones, and electric vehicles. There are a lot of companies trying to do something similar—QuantumScape and Sila Nanotechnologies, to name a couple—each with a different pitch as to what chemical makeup or materials science breakthrough is going to deliver the g...
Source: TIME: Science - November 23, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Alejandro de la Garza Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Innovators healthscienceclimate Transportation Source Type: news
Scientists May Have Just Cracked the Code on Fast Electric Car Charging
We’re going to need to mine a huge amount of metals like cobalt and lithium to electrify the world’s automobiles. But things would be easier if car batteries didn’t have to be so big.
To a large extent, automobile makers building the next generation of electric vehicles (EVs) are competing on range, putting big, powerful batteries into their cars so they can travel farther between charges. That means mining and refining more minerals to build those bigger cars, and thus a bigger impact on the landscape, and a larger environmental footprint. The reason for all that is that EV batteries don’t charge ...
Source: TIME: Science - October 12, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Alejandro de la Garza Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Innovators embargoed study energy Explainer healthscienceclimate Transportation Source Type: news
Federal fraud charges crumble in cases against scientists with China ties
The U.S. government overplayed its hand in prosecuting U.S. academics under the controversial China Initiative, three federal courts ruled last week.
In separate cases, attorneys for the Department of Justice (DOJ) had maintained that chemist Franklin Tao, materials scientist Zhengdong Cheng, and mathematician Mingqing Xiao jeopardized the nation’s security and defrauded the government by deliberately hiding ties to Chinese institutions from the federal agencies funding their research. But last week, judges in Kansas, Texas, and Illinois either invalidated some of the most serious charges or handed down relatively ...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 26, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Scientists devise method to prevent deadly hospital infections without antibiotics
A hospital or medical clinic might be the last place you ’d expect to pick up a nasty infection, but approximately 1.7 million Americans do each year, resulting in nearly 100,000 deaths from infection-related complications and roughly $30 billion in direct medical costs.The biggest culprits, experts say — accounting for two-thirds of these infections — are medical devices like catheters, stents, heart valves and pacemakers, whose surfaces often become covered with harmful bacterial films. But a novel surface treatment developed by a UCLA-led team of scientists could help improve the safety of t hese devices and ease ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - May 19, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Materials science and bacteria are key to remediation, experts say
<div class="rxbodyfield">At NIEHS Superfund Research Program event, hundreds learned about grantees’ novel strategies to remove contaminants from the environment.</div> (read more) (Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - May 3, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news
Medline and Hologenix Partner on New Curad Performance Series Line Powered By Celliant
LOS ANGELES, March 29, 2022 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Medline, a leading medical product distributor and manufacturer, and materials science innovator Hologenix® are excited to announce that they have partnered on a new line of CURA... Devices, Orthopaedic, Distribution Medline, Hologenix, CURAD, CELLIANT (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - March 29, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Sweating the small stuff: Smartwatch developed at UCLA measures key stress hormone
The human body responds to stress, from the everyday to the extreme, by producing a hormone called cortisol.To date, it has been impractical to measure cortisol as a way to potentially identify conditions such as depression and post-traumatic stress, in which levels of the hormone are elevated. Cortisol levels traditionally have been evaluated through blood samples by professional labs, and while those measurements can be useful for diagnosing certain diseases, they fail to capture changes in cortisol levels over time.Now, a UCLA research team has developed a device that could be a major step forward: a smartwatch that ass...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 7, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
2021 reflections: In an amazing year of achievements, nothing topped the return to campus
As we approach the end of December, it ’s a natural time to look back at the year that was. In 2021, UCLA welcomed students, faculty, staff, alumni and visitors back to our home in Westwood, though of course it wasn’t exactly the way things had been.Different from pre-pandemic times: Masks remain present. Better (much better): UCLA officially opened the Black Bruin Resource Center.Even with all the changes, UCLA persisted as a force for public good, guided by our mission of teaching, research and service. In the past year, professors continued helping us better understand our world with their research, students kept ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 17, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
43 UCLA scholars among most highly cited researchers for 2021
The world’s most influential researchers include 43 UCLA scholars.In its latest annual list, Clarivate Analytics names the most highly cited researchers — the scholars whose work was most often referenced by other scientific research papers in 21 fields in the sciences and social sciences. The researchers rank in the top 1% in their fields, based on their widely cited studies. The 2021 list is produced using research citations from January 2010 to December 2020.Current UCLA faculty members and researchers who were named to the list, and their primary UCLA research field or fields, are:Carrie Bearden, psychiatr...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - November 16, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
How ‘wonder material’ graphene became a national security concern
UK and China are racing to develop forms of super-strong technology – with potential aerospace and weaponry usesA large shed on an unassuming industrial estate beside Swansea ’s River Tawe does not at first glance seem vital to the UK’s national security. The facility, run by a small company called Perpetuus , sits beside a mortuary and a parcel depot.Earlier this month, the company, which makes graphene – a “wonder material” made of a single layer of carbon atoms – grabbed the attention of the government, which said it wouldinvestigate a possible takeover involving a Chinese academic, in a highly unusual mov...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 27, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Jasper Jolly Tags: Manufacturing sector Materials science China Business UK news Wales Nanotechnology Kwasi Kwarteng Manchester Swansea Physics Source Type: news
Lesley Chow honored with national Early-Career Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award
(Lehigh University) Lehigh University assistant professor Lesley Chow (bioengineering; materials science and engineering) is a 2021 recipient of the Early-Career Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award presented by the Engineering Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research. The award recognizes her contributions as a mentor to undergrads 'from a diverse range of backgrounds and identities,' her support of their efforts to share their work with the scholarly community, and her track record of involving undergraduates in her research lab. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 17, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Detoxifiers from the landfill
(Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)) Bacteria from an Indian landfill could help eliminate contaminated chemicals. The focus is on pesticides such as lindane or brominated flame retardants, which accumulate in nature and in food chains. Researchers at Empa and Eawag used these bacteria to generate enzymes that can break down these dangerous chemicals. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - June 17, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news
