A team led by Edward Marcotte and Eric Anslyn from the Univ. of Texas at Austin has invented a new method of detecting nerve agents with a simple device that can be constructed of Lego building blocks and a smartphone.
A new cholera vaccine begins protecting rabbits from the fatal disease within 24 hr of injection. With only one U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved vaccine in circulation and an estimated 2.9 million cases of cholera each year, this quick-acting treatment has the potential to save thousands of lives.
A pair of studies that investigated the effect of CRISPR-Cas 9 on a key protein that regulates cell growth and protects against cancer has sent shockwaves through the growing corner of the biotech sector that draws on this technology and has caused investors to reassess the safety of the method.
New CRISPR Findings Raise Concerns Before Technology’s Clinical Debut; Spiders Inspire Glues that Stick When Wet; Tiny Robots Deliver Cell Cargoes In Vivo; Scientists Create Open-Source Nerve Agent Detector; Quick Acting Vaccine Combats Cholera
August
2018
Humans have roughly 40 trillion bacterial cells in their bodies; up to 1,000 species of bacteria live in the human gut alone. With bodies roughly made of 30 trillion human cells, you could say we are perhaps more bacteria than human. The human...
August
2018
During a session I was instructing on risk-based process safety, one of the company process safety leaders presented a simple process safety model: If you design it right, operate it correctly, and maintain it properly, the process should operate...
August
2018
What if Your Agitator Fails? A German manufacturer employed a process that reacted o -chloronitrobenzene with caustic soda dissolved in methanol in a 36-m 3 (9,500-gal) batch reactor to produce o -nitroanisol. The reaction is exothermic, and the...
August
2018
PUMPS Screw Pumps Reduce Contamination The Varodry oil-free, air-cooled screw pumps are easy to install and operate, and with few components, they require minimal maintenance. They operate with minimal noise and emission-free venting. Because they...
August
2018
This fall, Pittsburgh, PA — a hub of U.S. industry and manufacturing — will welcome thousands of chemical engineering researchers and practitioners, who will survey the field’s achievements and future prospects at the 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting,...
August
2018
AIChE Introduces Some of its New Fellows Fellow candidates are nominated by their peers, and must have significant chemical engineering experience (generally 25 years), have demonstrated significant service to the profession, and have been a member...
