In the household category function has always taken priority over form. For supporting evidence of this statement you only need walk down the household goods aisle at your local supermarket where you will be met by a wall of very similar ...
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Pound for pound, spider silk is one of the strongest materials known: Research by MIT’s Markus Buehler has helped explain that this strength arises from silk’s unusual hierarchical arrangement of protein building blocks. Now ...
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One day, pharmaceutical companies might not have to test new drugs on animals or even humans. Instead, drugs could be tested with organ-on-a-chip technologies. These are not silicon chips that simulate organs or organisms, mind you; they ...
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1. What's "guanxi"? Guanxi is regarded as the central idea in Chinese society with long historical and cultural roots. It is understood and utilized by virtually every Chinese person in greater or lesser measure. Understanding how the ...
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Serving the OEM paper converting industry and providing contract manufacturing services for more than 60 years, G. Bretting Manufacturing Co. Inc. is located in Ashland, WI on the southern shores of Lake Superior. The fourth generation of ...
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Angiotech Pharmaceuticals has gained US marketing rights for its Bio-Seal Lung Biopsy Tract Plug system, following the approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Featuring a proprietary hydrogel plug, the proprietary biopsy ...
Does banking have the allure of a new Apple product? Barclays Bank thinks it does. Barclays is attempting to redefine banking as it tries to mimic the success of companies like Apple, Amazon and Google. PingIt, the bank's real-time ...
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University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) has treated the first patient using its RePneu lung volume reduction coil (LVRC), designed for relieving breathing difficulty in patients with severe emphysema, in RENEW pivotal trial. The ...
With a history of 2000 to 3000 years, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has formed a unique system to diagnose and cure illness. The TCM approach is fundamentally di‑ erent from that of Western medicine. In TCM, the ...
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Borrow Baby Couture unveiled its fall inventory today and announced that they have added designers Dior, Versace, and Chloe. Borrow Baby Couture is the first venture of its kind allowing customers to rent couture clothing for little girls ...
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University researchers are studying the brains of honey bees in an attempt to build an autonomous flying robot. By creating models of the systems in a bee's brain that control vision and sense of smell, scientists are hoping to build a ...
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Elekta has gained 510(k) clearance for its Clarity 4D Monitoring software, allowing US medical centers to deploy a new way of minimizing the uncertainty caused by prostate motion during radiation treatment. Clarity 4D Monitoring ...
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BSD Medical, a provider of ablation systems, has launched new SynchroWave short tip antenna. The launch of new SynchroWave ST antenna allows the company's to expand its MicroThermX ablation market opportunity and meet the needs of the ...
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Volcano has announced positive results from a ADAPT-DES IVUS sub-study, which demonstrated that stent procedures guided by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) reduces stent thrombosis and myocardial infarction (MI) as well as improve patient ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to Teleflex Incorporated's new line of Weck reusable obturators, designed for use during laparoscopic procedures. The stainless steel obturators, which are ...
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