Biopharmaceutical development company Chelsea Therapeutics has announced the US FDA acceptance of Northera (droxidopa) new drug application (NDA) resubmission to treat symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (NOH). The company is ...
The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Semiconductors and Tsinghua University claim “the first proof-of-concept experimental demonstration of the current-driven pyramid array InGaN/GaN core-shell LEDs interconnected with ...
Tags: Pyramid-array LEDs, Graphene Electrodes, GaN, MOCVD
The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC has developed a method to grow epitaxial nitride semiconductors on graphene [Neeraj Nepal et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p061003, 2013]. The researchers hope that this could lead to ...
Tags: Graphene, Electrical, Electronics, hot-electron transistors
BASF, Cargill and Novozymes announced the achievement of an important milestone in their joint development of technologies to produce acrylic acid from renewable raw materials by successfully demonstrating the production of ...
Tags: BASF, Acrylic Acid, Renewable Materials
The US exported the second highest volume of petroleum coke ever in April, according to US Energy Information Administration data. The EIA April data, released Friday, show exports of 17.78 million barrels, second only to December 2011, ...
Tags: Petroleum Coke Volume
A sweater by definition is a knitted top, and knitted garments have been around a very long time. So the real answer to who invented the sweater is the same answer to "who invented knitting?" Knitting by definition is the process of using ...
Tags: Sweaters, Sweaters History, Apparel
This study develops a biofouling indicator for seawater desalination using reverse osmosis (RO) membranes in a southern California desalination pilot plant. Chlorophyll is identified as a sensitive indicator for membrane biofouling. One ...
Tags: Chemicals, RO Membranes
Microsoft has reversed the DRM [digital rights management] policy for its upcoming new console, the Xbox One, only a week after it was announced. The policy, made public on 10 June 2013 at the Electronics Entertainment Expo [E3] in LA, ...
Tags: Microsoft, DRM Policy, Xbox One
Nutrition Dried fruits retain most of the nutritional value of fresh fruits, and so are included with fresh fruit in dietary recommendations by U.S. and world health agencies. The specific nutrient content of the different dried fruits ...
Tags: Dried Fruits, Nutrition
Mott Corporation has developed an all metal filter for filtration of low vapour pressure, high temperature gases generated in a direct liquid injection system, where the process utilises a vaporisation chamber. This filter from Mott, ...
Tags: All-Metal Filters, Semiconductor
BASF and SINOPEC are considering the extension of their Nanjing joint venture BASF-YPC Company Limited with the expansion of existing ethylene oxide (EO) production, and a new plant for neopentylglycol (NPG). BASF-YPC will further expand ...
One of only a handful of 37-year-old, still-working Apple-1 computers sold for a record three-quarters of a million dollars Saturday at an auction in Germany. The record price was paid by an anonymous bidder. In an interview with the?New ...
Tags: Computer Products
Last week, Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) officers in NSW and Victoria seized approximately 32 kilograms of ephedrine. The drugs were detected in 14 separate consignments from Hong Kong, China, India and Ireland ...
Tags: Smugglers, Drug Smugglers, Service
Opera Software today released the first beta version of its flagship browser that uses the open-source WebKit rendering engine, making good on a pledge from February. "Opera Next" -- analogous to a beta -- shipped Tuesday for Windows and ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Carlos, California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) May 9, 2013 -- Rosa & Co. LLC, a drug development advisory firm with expertise in drug-disease modeling and simulation, today announced that ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration