The European project RES Urbis (Resources from Urban Bio-waste), showed that different biowaste produced in an urban environment can be treated within the same chain of valorisation. It can be used to obtain products with biological origins, such as bioplastics, with a higher economic value than that of compost and biogas.

Manish Garg and Klaus Kern, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, have developed a microscope for the extremely fast processes that take place on the quantum scale. This microscope — a sort of HD camera for the quantum world — allows the precise tracking of electron movements down to the individual atom. It should therefore provide useful insights when it comes to developing extremely fast and extremely small electronic components, for example.

The human-caused biodiversity decline started much earlier than researchers used to believe. According to a new study published in the scientific journal Ecology Letters the process was not started by our own species but by some of our ancestors.

Sartorius officially opened its new production facility as part of Sartorius Campus. The investment has a volume of approx. € 42 million.

With the unique microreactor, Indian researchers from the Agharkar Research Institute in Pune have been able to fulfill a major requirement in biomedical technology – production of uniform sized nanoparticles in large quantities.

Spanish researchers have developed a nanosensor that can detect very low quantities of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere. The solutions also improves the reliability and sensitivity of existing sensors by 300 %.

Indian scientists at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology in Mohali have used fish gills to develop an efficient and low-cost electro-catalyst for rechargeable metal-air battery. The results have been recently published in the journal ‘Inorganic Chemistry’ by the American Chemical Society.

Sciex has developed the first non-derivatised method using LC-MS/MS for quick and simple detection and quantitation of glyphosate and other polar pesticides in food, feed and water commodities.

To combat the coronavirus, BP has provided its significant supercomputing capability to the ‘Covid-19 High Performance Computing Consortium’ group. The aim of the group is to offer access to Covid-19 researchers across the globe with the most powerful high-performance computing resources in order to stop the virus.

In its Status of Microfluidics Industry report published this year, Yole highlights the numerous acquisitions that have been taking place over the last few years. With more than 700 companies worldwide, almost 300 million products sold in 2016, and 4,500+ patent publications, the microfluidics market is becoming the playground for a lot of financial movements.