Start-up recycles plastic lab waste into new test tubes and petri dishes

University of Bath is home to UK’s first pilot plant for recycling plastic lab waste

14-Sep-2023 - A company co-founded by a University of Bath graduate has opened the UK’s first pilot plant that can recycle up to 60% of plastic lab waste, to make back into new lab consumables. LabCycle hopes the technology could be scaled up in the future to recycle waste from healthcare, research and ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 given to three scientists

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"

06-Oct-2010 - Organic chemistry has developed into an art form where scientists produce marvelous chemical creations in their test tubes. Mankind benefits from this in the form of medicines, ever-more precise electronics and advanced technological materials. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 awards one of the ...

New nano-tool synthesized at Scripps Research Institute

'Ouroborand' molecular switch resembles a tail-eating lizard

20-Apr-2010 - Two chemists at The Scripps Research Institute have synthesized a new nano-scale scientific tool — a tiny molecular switch that turns itself on or off as it detects metallic ions in its immediate surroundings. Featured on the cover of the International Edition of the journal Angewandte Chemie, ...

Enzyme design with remote effects

Chemists in Mülheim devise a new way of optimising enzymes for industrial applications

17-Feb-2010 - Engineers are unlikely to tinker with the cooling system if they want to increase the size of an engine. Yet chemists at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research have adopted an approach similar to this in their efforts to optimise an enzyme for practical applications. They substituted two ...

Tiny test tube experiment shows reaction of melting materials at the nano scale

19-Oct-2009 - Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube, measuring a thousandth the diameter of a human hair. The nano-scale test tube is so small that a high-power electron microscope was required to see the ...

Carbon nanoparticles toxic to adult fruit flies but benign to young

14-Aug-2009 - Carbon nanoparticles are widely used in medicine, electronics, optics, materials science and architecture, but their health and environmental impact is not fully understood. In a series of experiments, researchers at Brown University sought to determine how carbon nanoparticles would affect ...

Fitting pieces for biosensors

15-Apr-2009 - Research and industry are increasingly exploiting the potential of aptamers. As well as their application in research, medical diagnosis and treatment, aptamers are also interesting as a basis for biosensors for use in environmental analysis because their characteristics enable them to identify ...

Hawaiian scientists take their test tubes surfing

24-Sep-2008 - Chemists have traded their white coats for swim shorts at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu – they've shunned the lab so they can swim out to the breakers with a test-tube built into a boogie-board. The glorious sunshine and the Pacific Ocean provide the perfect conditions for Robert Liu and ...

New rapid technique detects food bacteria

CU researchers announce new technique for rapidly detecting illness-causing bacteria in food

19-Jul-2005 - Cornell University scientists have developed a rapid, less costly and sensitive new technique for detecting group A streptococcus, the bacteria that cause scarlet fever. Details will be announced today at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo in New Orleans. The ...

Merck KGaA Completes Sale of VWR International

08-Apr-2004 - Merck KGaA announced today that it has successfully completed the sale of its laboratory distribution business, VWR International, for USD 1.68 billion. The sale was accomplished through a stock purchase agreement, whereby a fund managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a leading global private ...