Over the past 50 years, the water in lakes and watercourses has turned increasingly brown. The so-called browning has a negative impact on both drinking water production and ecosystems. If nothing is done, the water is likely to turn even browner — however, Swedish scientists provide hope.

Shimadzu announced the opening of its own branch office in Sweden. It is based in Stockholm, in the city district of Kista. The company is already represented in all European countries with own subsidiaries and branch offices as well as a network of distributors.

An international consortium of scientists and conservationists has successfully harvested ten eggs from the world’s last two northern white rhinos, Najin and Fatu, on August 22nd in Kenya. Seven out of the ten eggs were successfully matured and artificially inseminated.

Medtech and digital health company Onera Health announced the introduction of its first Onera Biomedical-Lab-on-Chip, an ultra-low-power biosignal sensor hub for wearable health.

Dutch biotechnology company, Molecular Biology Systems, (MBS) has announced that both in silico and bench testing confirmed that the Nextgen PCR reagents detected the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.

Pacbio announced an expansion of its extensive suite of Hifi applications with Azenta Life Sciences, formerly Genewiz.

A new technology developed at the University of Minnesota could open the door to ubiquitous, more easily fabricated electronic screens.

Dog brains can detect speech, and show different activity patterns to a familiar and an unfamiliar language, a new brain imaging study by researchers from the Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary finds.

An international team of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has grown ‘miniature kidneys’ in the laboratory that could be used to better understand how kidney diseases develop in individual patients.

Merck has acquired all ownership rights to the Process Pad platform from Simplyfeye Softwares. The web-based platform provides on-demand access, across functions and with suppliers, to data for aggregation, analysis, visualization and management.