Product recalls not only cause financial damage, but can also lead to image loss and severely damage trade relations. This applies particularly to food production. Minebea Intec, a leading manufacturer of weighing and inspection solutions, offers products that minimize the risk of recalls, helping plant constructors and manufacturers in the food industry to safeguard production processes.

Indian scientists have developed a new technology platform that is capable of detecting Sars-Cov-2 by fluorescence readout. The platform can also be used to detect other DNA/RNA pathogens including HIV, influenza, HCV, Zika, Ebola, bacteria, and other mutating/evolving pathogens.

Researchers at the Emory University and Georgia State University in the USA will be establishing a new drug development center aimed at preventing the next pandemic. With a federal funding of 52 million dollars, the new center will be led and co-founded by researchers who have successfully collaborated on antiviral drugs in the past.

Researchers at the University of East Anglia carried out a study focussing on the advantages of consuming cranberries daily among older adults. They found out that by eating cranberries every day, the participants’ memory, neural functioning and delivery of blood to the brain significantly improved.

Calibre Scientific, a global provider of life science reagents, tools and other consumables to the lab research, diagnostics, industrial, and biopharmaceutical communities has acquired the Spanish firm Serviquimia, a comprehensive provider of products and services for the laboratory in the Iberian market.

A team of microbiologists from Goethe University Frankfurt has succeeded in using bacteria for the controlled storage and release of hydrogen. This is an important step in the search for carbon-neutral energy sources in the interest of climate protection.

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has partnered with the Soroka Medical Center to develop novel technologies in the bio-convergence space, a field that combines biology with computational technologies and engineering.

Our brains rarely record single memories — instead, they store memories into groups so that the recollection of one significant memory triggers the recall of others connected by time. As we age, however, our brains gradually lose this ability to link related memories. Now UCLA researchers have discovered a key molecular mechanism behind memory linking.

Northwestern University engineers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab that can walk, bend, twist, turn and jump.

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed efficient blue light-emitting diodes based on halide perovskites. The new LEDs may open the way to cheap and energy-efficient illumination.