Over the next three years, researchers from various European institutes will be working together with the Dutch Polymer manufacturer Supra Polix on the next generation of robots: (soft) robots that ‘feel pain’ and heal themselves. The partners can count on three million Euro in support from the European Commission. read...
Identifying species among plants and animals has been a full-time occupation for some biologists, but the task is even more daunting for the myriad microbes that inhabit the planet. Now, MIT researchers have developed a simple measurement of gene flow that can define ecologically important populations among bacteria and archaea, including pinpointing populations associated with human diseases. read...
Halix, a contract development and manufacturing organization of clinical and commercial proteins and viral products, based in the Netherlands, announced the interim delivery of a new 6,700 m2 cGMP facility in Leiden Bio Science Park. read...
Scientists at the University of Warwick claim that they have developed a more powerful method of analyzing chemical mixtures. The method has been able to assign a record-breaking number of 244,779 molecular compositions within a single sample of petroleum. read...
