The III Hispano-French Conference on micro and nanotechnologies was held recently in Donostia-San Sebasti?n, one of the participants being AZTI- Tecnalia which presented part of its research carried out within the framework of the European GOODFOOD – Food Safety and Quality Monitoring with Microsystems programme
The progress registered by the country in nuclear medicine have to be extended to the poor, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said today.
Penn State researchers have developed an automated system that can determine which “J. Smith” is authoring papers on computer science — the one who teaches at Penn State or the one who teaches at M.I.T — as well as whether “J. Smith” is John Smith, Jane Smith, Joanna L. Smith or James H. Smith.
A draft legislation on regulatory framework to vallidate medical devices is ready and will be forwarded soon to Health Ministry, Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said today.
Making an impassioned appeal for eradicating illiteracy and ignorance among the children of the world, Britain’s Chancellor of Exchequer Gordon Brown has said an estimated 10 billion dollars were needed for this.
An interim analysis of a phase III study in advanced renal cell cancer has shown that Avastin significantly prolongs the time patients live without their disease progressing.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today ordered firms to stop marketing unapproved drug products containing quinine, a drug used to treat malaria, citing serious safety concerns, including deaths, associated with quinine products. There are multiple unapproved products containing quinine currently marketed. However, there is only one quinine product approved by the FDA.
Preliminary findings from a revolutionary satellite system launched earlier this year show that the system can boost the accuracy of forecasts of hurricane behavior, significantly improve long-range weather forecasts, and monitor climate change with unprecedented accuracy. There will be a press conference/teleconference at 5 p.m. Eastern Time today.
Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will produce a 3 percent reduction in the density of Earth’s outermost atmosphere by 2017, according to a team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Pennsylvania State University.
Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will produce a three percent reduction in the density of Earth’s outermost atmosphere by 2017, scientists predict. Recent observations have shown that the thermosphere, which begins about 60 miles above Earth and extends up to 400 miles, is becoming less dense.