Sciences

Emultech and Osteo-Pharma today announced a joint venture, Bone-Tech, to develop what could be the first disease-modifying treatment for osteoarthritis of the knee. Bone-Tech brings together Osteo-Pharma’s novel combination drug therapy for the local treatment of osteoarthritis with Emultech’s world-leading microfluidics’ microspheres technology.  Bone-Tech’s patented OsteoActivator™ microspheres treatment promises to be the first and only extended-release … Read more

Women make up only 28% of the workforce in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and men vastly outnumber women majoring in most STEM fields in college. It’s time to turn the page. Katherine Cooper’s Power Glass boldly explores power and its mirror side, fragility, in a flashy, sometimes disturbing fusion of experiences, philosophical musings, … Read more

The Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society’s 17th Annual Meeting was held virtually the second year in a row and was once again phenomenally successful. Over 1,000 attendees around the world engaged in lively discussions and learned about groundbreaking developments in a broad range of oligonucleotide-based disciplines. The Rare Diseases Session featured progress in the development of ASO and … Read more

Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc. (CIL) is pleased to announce the release of our new stable isotope-labeled and unlabeled TCA cycle mixes to aid in the analysis of TCA-associated compounds in metabolic studies. The TCA (tricarboxylic acid) cycle, also known as the Krebs or citric acid cycle, plays an essential role in central carbon and energy … Read more

Switching Battery Inc. has unveiled an innovative electronic method for the connection of batteries called “para-series”.  The patent-pending para-series method is based on dynamically switching a group of batteries between series and parallel connections. As these two connection schemes have complementary properties, the para-series method can yield the optimal result for the output voltage. When two 3.7V batteries are … Read more

Switching Battery Inc. has unveiled an innovative electronic method for the connection of batteries called “para-series”.  The patent-pending para-series method is based on dynamically switching a group of batteries between series and parallel connections. As these two connection schemes have complementary properties, the para-series method can yield the optimal result for the output voltage. When two … Read more

Professor Melkior Ornik, of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a mathematician, a history buff, and a strong believer in integrity when it comes to using hard science in public discussions. So, when a story popped up in his news feed about a pair of researchers who developed a statistical method to … Read more

In an effort to expand its sustainability leadership in the Western Hemisphere, the Institute of the Americas (IOA) announced the merger of the University of California’s Gulf of California Marine Program (GCMP) as a new special programmatic initiative of its organization’s Environment & Climate Change (EC2) Program. Catalina López-Sagástegui will continue in her role as … Read more

California State University, Northridge (CSUN) professor Dr. Peter Edmunds and his graduate students have been working with Campbell Hall high school students for the past several years to bring a meaningful, real-world scientific project to the classroom. This collaboration has resulted in new findings that have concerning implications for mustard hill coral on the coast … Read more