Quick test for HIV: This microfluidics chip can detect syphilis and HIV in just 15 minutes from one microliter of blood. Credit: Curtis Chin, Columbia University A simple microfluidics chip could improve health care in poor countries by making rapid diagnostic testing a reality. Developed by Samual Sia and collaborators at Columbia University, the system …
Biomicrofluidics – Embryonic stem cell bioprinting for uniform and controlled size embryoid body formation Two main goals of bio-inkjet printers is to grow new body parts for organ transplants or tissues for making regenerative medicine repairs. Making body parts, organs or tissues begin with a printed mass of embryonic stem cells. Getting the embroid body …
Biomicrofluidics – Embryonic stem cell bioprinting for uniform and controlled size embryoid body formation Two main goals of bio-inkjet printers is to grow new body parts for organ transplants or tissues for making regenerative medicine repairs. Making body parts, organs or tissues begin with a printed mass of embryonic stem cells. Getting the embroid body …
DARPA is providing $30 million towards the goal of living foundries Through an engineering-driven approach to biology, Living Foundries aims to create a rapid, reliable manufacturing capability where multiple cellular functions can be fabricated, mixed and matched on demand and the whole system controlled by integrated circuitry, opening up the full space of biologically produced …
Schematic of the NV and the measurement scheme. a, Schematic drawing of the NV centre with one nitrogen at a carbon lattice site and an adjacent vacancy. b, Simulated absolute electric field 6 μm below the microstructure (depth of the NV) for an applied voltage difference of 1 V Nature Physics – Electric-field sensing using single diamond …
The IEA’s Monthly Electricity Statistics provides timely electricity production and trade data for all member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Japan will clearly lose about 6-8 TWH of nuclear electricity and electricity from other sources starting in March (half of the month) and then in April. For the first two …
Life expectancy in Europe keeps increasing despite the obesity epidemic, with people in Britain reaching an older age than those living in the US, according to an analysis of trends over the last 40 years Despite spending more per capita on health care than any other country in the world, the US is at the …
Bravenewclimate covers Fukushima March 15 Attention has centred on units #1, 2 and 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi plant (all Boiling Water Reactors built in the 1970s). Current concern is focused on unit #2 (more below). Units 4, 5 and 6 at the site were not in service at the time of the earthquake and …
Some news sources and internet sources(Christian Science Monitor) are trying to make an issue of spent fuel cooling pools now that the Japanese reactors are on the way to cold shutdown. DOE source – Multiple tests have been run with spent fuel cooling turned off. Temperatures do not reach boiling, not even close. Evaporation rates …