Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 goes to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier

The laureates’ contributions have enabled the investigation of processes that are so rapid they were previously impossible to follow

04-Oct-2023 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to Pierre Agostini (The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA), Ferenc Krausz (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) and Anne L’Huillier (Lund ...

ZEISS and EPFL begin long-term research collaboration

01-Dec-2016 - ZEISS will support innovative research projects at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, abbr. EPFL). The company will make one million euros available for new research projects in key technology fields such as biomedical research, ...

Food analysis and diagnostics are hot topics at analytica China 2014

08-Sep-2014 - analytica China, International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis, Biotechnology and Diagnostics, opens its gates at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) for the seventh time from September 24–26, 2014. This year's focus topics are food analysis and diagnostics. Among ...

New nanomethod paves the way for new measuring technology and hypersensitive sensors

05-Nov-2009 - Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new measurement technology that makes use of optical resonances in nanoparticles. The method, which opens new possibilities in the field of catalytics, will be published in the journal Science for November and is already ...

New experiment could reveal make-up of the universe

10-Aug-2009 - The detectors will become part of the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array (AGATA) experiment, currently based in Italy, which aims to create a 'fingerprint' of the inside of the atomic nucleus to understand the structure of all matter in the Universe, including human beings and the stars. The ...

NYU physicists find way to explore microscopic systems through holographic video

23-Jul-2009 - Physicists at New York University have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video. The work, which is reported in Optics Express, has potential to improve medical diagnostics and drug discovery. The ...

Fingerprint instead of Blood Sample

Antibody tests on fingerprints to detect drugs and diseases

21-May-2007 - To this day, fingerprints are just the thing when a perpetrator needs to be arrested or a person needs to be identified. British scientists working with David A. Russell also want to make it possible to use fingerprints to reveal drug and doping transgressions and to diagnose diseases. As the ...

3M Expands its Medical Diagnostics Platform with Acquisition of Acolyte Biomedica Ltd.

19-Feb-2007 - 3M announced it has acquired Acolyte Biomedica Ltd. Acolyte Biomedica brings to 3M's infection prevention platform a pipeline of rapid culture-based screening tests for microbes, such as MRSA and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE), that simplify the diagnostic process by automating ...

Simultaneous analysis

Simultaneous carbon dioxide and oxygen sensing

23-Jun-2006 - Only plants can make sugars from the carbon dioxide byproduct and at the same time expel oxygen during photosynthesis. This amazing skill has intrigued scientists for decades but separating out the carbon dioxide inputs and outputs while keeping tabs on oxygen levels has always proved ...

20th Analytica: The trade show for the global analysis sector

26-Apr-2006 - The industry representatives that gather at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre from April 25 - 28, 2006 see themselves as people who guarantee our quality of live, consumer protection and safety. Without analysis techniques, state-of-the-art laboratory technology and the latest achievements in ...