7 Jan 2020

New Methods of Recycling Polymers
Recycling waste plastics is essential to creating a circular economy. Current recycling methods are hampered by issues such as societal perceptions of recycling, to economic barriers and technological; however, over the past few years the number of technical innovations to improve polymer recycling have substantially increased.
7 Jan 2020

Storing Data in Everyday Objects
A research team has discovered a new method for turning nearly any object into a data storage unit. This makes it possible to save extensive data in, say, shirt buttons, water bottles or even the lenses of glasses, and then retrieve it years later. The technique also allows users to hide information and store it for later generations. It uses DNA as the storage medium.
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7 Jan 2020

Personalised End to End Knee Replacement Surgery
Sensoria Health will be announcing the first end-to-end knee replacement surgery experience, the Sensoria Health Remote Patient Rehab System, featuring the new Sensoria Smart Knee Brace, Sensoria Sock v2.0 embedded with textile pressure sensors and Sensoria® Core microelectronics, Remote Monitoring Cloud and Mobile Apps.
7 Jan 2020

Step Toward 'Ink' Development for 3D Printing a Bioprosthetic Ovary
For the first time, scientists identified and mapped the location of structural proteins in a pig ovary. Ongoing development of an "ink" with these proteins will be used for 3-D printing an artificial (or bio-prosthetic) ovary that could be implanted and allow a woman to have a child.
7 Jan 2020

LG Reveals OLED Innovations
The company will introduce how advanced display products can be applied to people's everyday lives in various settings such as in airplanes, automobiles, homes, hotels, offices, and commercial spaces.
7 Jan 2020

Tests Measure Solar Panel Performance Beyond Established Standards
Photovoltaics used in solar panels are sensitive to environmental factors and often suffer degradation over time. International Electrotechnical Commission standards for accelerated degradation do not include field tests. While some testing facilities have made data available, much of the data needed to make business decisions for PV is not available publicly.
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7 Jan 2020

Founder of Tera-Barrier Films is Innovator of the Year for Technology
With Senthil's innovation, the barrier properties of a single oxide barrier layer increased to up to 10,000 times, when a single nano sealing layer is coated on the barrier oxide layer. Barrier properties of the multilayer skyrocketed to up to 10-7 grams per square meter per day as tested by the top university in Japan.
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7 Jan 2020

Flexitricity Partners with Gresham House to Optimise Revenue
Flexible energy specialist Flexitricity has partnered with Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc, the listed Investment Trust managed by Gresham House Asset Management, to optimise 20MW of their flexible energy portfolio.
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7 Jan 2020

Wallbox Introduces Quasar, First Bidirectional Home Charger
Wallbox announced the U.S. introduction of Quasar, the world's first bidirectional EV charger for the home. Quasar not only charges EVs but can also send electricity back to the grid or even power a home.
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6 Jan 2020

23andme
23andme is the first company and the unicorn, to offer autosomal DNA testing for ancestry and health-related components.
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6 Jan 2020

Thermal interface materials in LED general lighting applications
Thermal interface materials in LED general lighting applications
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6 Jan 2020

Spartan Bioscience
Spartan Bioscience first launched themselves into the point-of-care molecular diagnostics industry with a pharmacogenomics application for drug metabolism using their first platform, the Spartan RX, in 2010.
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6 Jan 2020

Guardant
Guardant is a liquid biopsy leader in the United States, selling liquid biopsy tests that "map" out genomic results for advanced cancer tumors, helping match individual patients with the right cancer treatment.
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6 Jan 2020

Alere
Alere delivers health information through diagnostic tests.
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6 Jan 2020

Fluidigm Corporation
The key technology for Fluidigm are proprietary CyTOF® and microfluidics technologies for mass cytometry and microfluidic systems (such as PCR or library prepare system for NGS, and Integrated Fluidic Circuits).
6 Jan 2020

Human Centric Wearables for Smart Health
Human-centric wearables provide opportunities to address the challenges today's society faces with regards to the wellbeing of people. By integrating electronics in textiles Holst Centre builds on the intimacy of clothing and by augmenting its expressive and communicative qualities.
6 Jan 2020

Off-Road Vehicle Makers Can Beat Car Makers
Car giants are in difficulty.
The leading car makers have sales larger than the economies of many countries. Toyota and Volkswagen Group are up at the $300 billion level
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6 Jan 2020

Scanogen
Scanogen (formally Twistnostics) are working on a way to eliminate the need for amplifying genetic material by increasing the sensitivity of detection to the point that amplification is no longer needed.
6 Jan 2020

Bioelectric Stimulation to Clear Skin Lesions
The delivery of ultrashort pulses of electrical energy represents a promising nonthermal, nonscarring method of inducing regulated cell death in common skin lesions.
6 Jan 2020

Aquatic Rover Goes for a Drive Under the Ice
BRUIE, or the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, is being developed for underwater exploration in extraterrestrial, icy waters by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.