The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced a new guide for research and funding in animal genomics for 2018-2027.
Read MoreResearchers from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have discovered a way to create paper-based cell culture scaffolds that model tissue vasculature.
Read MoreGovernments agreed to a global ban of PFOA - a persistent pollutant with known harmful effects on health and the environment - during the 9th Conference of the Parties (COP9) of the Stockholm Convention.
Read MoreResearchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have published findings that demonstrate ingested nanocellulose has little acute toxicity when gavaged at low doses.
Read MoreVireo Advisors Founder and President Jo Anne Shatkin received the 2019 TAPPI Nanotechnology Division Leadership and Service Award in Chiba, Japan, on June 5 in recognition of her contributions toward establishing the safety of cellulose nanomaterials.
Read MoreScientists have discovered enzymes capable of degrading polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
Read MoreA recent report on “Accelerating the Circular Supply Chain for Plastics” highlights the need to address plastics pollution by capitalizing on technologies that convert waste plastics into other materials.
Read MorePrimaLoft has developed a recycled polyester polymer with an attached simple sugar to enhance the material’s susceptibility to biodegradation.
Read MoreResearchers from Penn State and the University of Alabama have described the use of LEGO bricks to solve a common problem facing lab-grown meat—lack of structural support.
Read MoreScientists from the University of Science and Technology Liaoning, China have published a report in Energy Conversion and Management that demonstrates the use of renewable biomass for production of carbon nanotubes (CNTs).
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