Since early November, many Chinese carton factories began to reject new orders or restrict orders. The situation has been ongoing till now, with factories in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai areas responded the most. As many as 18 local large ...
Neogen has received approval from the AOAC Research Institute for its new rapid and accurate test to definitively detect E. coli O157:H7 DNA. Neogen's newly approved ANSR for E. coli O157:H7 detects the bacteria after only 10 minutes of ...
Tags: Neogen, ANSR, E.Coli O157:H7
New technology developed by UC Berkeley bioengineers promises to make a workhorse lab tool cheaper, more portable and many times faster by accelerating the heating and cooling of genetic samples with the switch of a light. ...
Tags: PCR, LED Lights
Barcodes look mysterious. And every now and then an urban myth grows and develops about one or other of their numbers and/or stripes. The most enduring is that barcodes hold insider information about a product’s country of origin. ...
Tags: Elvis, GS1 Barcodes, Packaging
The 90-second feature combines stop motion, clever graphics and a mix of new and vintage LEGO pieces that the team has collected over the years. Film, TV and video production company DMI Productions is delivering a dollop of Christmas ...
Tags: Festive Video, LEGO Fans, Toys
The video features key Disney Store products engaged in an intricate Rube Goldberg machine through a festive Disney Store. Disney Store has unveiled its festive TV advertisement for 2014, featuring a chain reaction of Disney products ...
Tags: Disney Store, Christmas, Toys
Oops, we did it again. Another solid USDA export report and the market tanked. The beginning of the week the market was on a tear to the upside but the market reaction to this “bullish” report turned the fundamentals on their ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Cotton Market
Natural-gas prices fell 17% since Monday, the largest two-day drop in the market more than six years, as investors continued to take profits from last week's rally. Futures for March delivery settled down 34.9 cents, or 6.4%, at $5.096 a ...
Tags: Natural-Gas, Mineral
The whole concept of servicing satellites in space is just so crazy that with the very rare exception of bajillion dollar pieces of hardware like Hubble, satellites just aren't designed to be repaired or refueled. They get put into orbit, ...
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Lexington, Ky.-based Equine Diagnostic Solutions (EDS) has begun testing for equine rhinitis A virus (ERAV) using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing method. EDS is now one of four labs in the United States offering this test, along ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
A trio of researchers (two from the University of Chicago, the other from Princeton) has proposed a new theory to explain the sudden breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002. In their paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, Alison ...
Tags: Larsen B Ice Shelf, sudden breakup, cause of the collapse, drainage
Foodborne illness outbreaks result when two or more persons develop similar symptoms of illness (gastroenteritis) after eating a common food, or become ill after consuming food from a common source. Such events occur relatively frequently ...
Tags: Foodborne Illness, Food Safety, Food
Roche announced has obtained 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of four additional specimen types with the cobas CT/NG v2.0 test to help physicians diagnose Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria ...
Hearing from dealers that Chain Reaction or Wiggle is offering products below wholesale is not a phone call any supplier wants to field. So when Stan's OE sales manager Mark Hillam started with the company, one of the first things on his ...
Tags: bike, Transportation
As greater numbers of hotel groups revamp their lighting systems to enhance their hospitality offering and footfall, Nick Martindale finds out the driving forces behind these changes Radical refurb: The refurbishment of the Radisson ...