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May 17 | News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
generally approves drug therapies faster and earlier than its
counterparts in Canada and Europe,
according to a new study by Yale University School of Medicine
researchers. The
study counters perceptions that the drug approval process in the U.S. is
especially slow.
Feb 10 | News
A new, single-step method of fabricating microcapsules using
copolymers, gold nanoparticles, and small barrel-shaped molecules called
cucurbiturils has been developed by researchers at the University of
Cambridge, U.K. The capsules have potential applications medicine,
agriculture, and diagnostics.
11/7/2011 | News
The
family of complex compounds known as taxanes are exceedingly difficult
to produce in the lab, limiting the use of Taxol, an important cancer
drug, and hindering the discovery of related taxadienes. Scripps
Research Institute scientists have found a way to simplify this process,
potentially opening up new drug leads.
5/10/2011 | News
Certain compounds are so similar they are distinguished by the way interact with polarized light. A conventional polarimeter accomplishes this test by rotating a polarizing prism. A new device invented by two professors at Baylor Univ. eliminates this mechanical motion, and should improve measurement reliability in industries like pharmaceuticals.
4/18/2011 | News
Researchers
at the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have developed
the first of a new class of highly selective compounds that effectively
suppresses the severity of multiple sclerosis in animal models. The
discovery also holds promise for other autoimmune disorders.
3/10/2011 | News
Edwards Vacuum has won
a contract to supply Quorum Technologies with its EXT75DX
turbomolecular vacuum pumps for cryogenic preparation chambers used in
scanning electron microscopy applications. The oil-free pump allows
Quorum to perform cold fracturing, controlled sublimation, and specimen
coating for reliable microstructure analysis.
11/4/2010 | News
Booz
& Company this week released its Global Innovation 1000 Study,
which details the first global corporate R&D spending drop since
before 1997, the first year studied. However, R&D intensity
increased as corporate revenues declined by nearly three times the rate
of reductions in R&D spending.
5/26/2010 | White Papers
About 40,000
companies received questionnaires from the National Science Foundation
and the
U.S. Census Bureau in 2008. The results from this report, the first of
its kind
to gauge R&D performance on a global scale, show that the U.S.
economy
supports a higher level of domestic R&D ($234 billion) than some had
thought.
9/18/2009 | News
Researchers are developing technologies that use lasers to create arterial stents and longer-lasting medical implants that could be manufactured 10 times faster and also less expensively than is now possible. One of the researchers' techniques works by depositing layers of a powdered mixture of metal and ceramic materials, melting the powder with a laser and then immediately solidifying each layer to form parts.
8/19/2009 | News
A new method for attaching a large protective polymer molecule to a protein appears to improve protein drugs significantly. Bioengineers at Duke Univ. developed the new approach and demonstrated in an animal model that the newly created protein-polymer combinations, known as conjugates, remained in circulation significantly longer than an unprotected protein.
