Scott Kelly is back in the United States after spending 340 days in space, aboard the International Space Station. It is the longest a US astronaut has ever spent in space on a single trip. Along with his crewmates he was involved in more than 450 experiments while on board. Life in microgravity meant his[…]
The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved a cancer drug which is based on the research efforts of a German scientist. Axel Ullrich, director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, laid the groundwork on which the active substance Sunitinib was based. ThePharmaceutical group Pfizer has now brought the Sunitinib-based product SUTENT® on to the[…]
The infection, which causes symptoms including mild fever, conjunctivitis and headache, has already been found in 21 countries in the Caribbean, North and South America. It has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains and some countries have advised women not to get pregnant. No treatment or vaccine is available. The[…]
Subdued Demand, Diminished Prospects January 2016 Global growth, currently estimated at 3.1 percent in 2015, is projected at 3.4 percent in 2016 and 3.6 percent in 2017. The pickup in global activity is projected to be more gradual than in the October 2015 World Economic Outlook(WEO), especially in emerging market and developing economies. In advanced economies,[…]
In one project, Brad Olsen’s lab seeks to engineer soaps that can be sprayed onto a toxic chemical release and not only wash off the chemical, but detoxify it. In another, he is joining with numerous collaborators to lay the foundations for “sustainable biorefineries” that can turn solid waste or algae into a renewable feedstock[…]
A postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University was killed in a Dec. 18 fire in a chemistry laboratory on the Beijing campus, according to a university statement on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo. Local media report that the deceased researcher is Xiangjian Meng, 32. He received a Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2014.[…]