Researchers at the University of Delaware have developed a “smart” hydrogel that can deliver medicine on demand, in response to mechanical force.

Researchers at Georgia Tech studying the burgeoning phenomenon of crowdfunding have learned that the language used in online fundraising holds surprisingly predictive power about the success of such campaigns.

Microbes set up their own markets, comparing bids for commodities, hoarding to obtain a better price, and generally behaving in ways more commonly associated with Wall Street than the microscopic world.

By attaching a cancer-killer protein to white blood cells, Cornell University biomedical engineers have demonstrated the annihilation of metastasizing cancer cells traveling throughout the bloodstream.

Marshall Scholar Colleen Loynachan tackles materials science problems with a photographer’s perspective.

In this powerful, skill building program you will learn to communicate assertively in a variety of challenging situations so you can be a positive role model to those you work with and for.

Researchers have found that exercise plays a role in how individuals feel they can manage their work-life balance.

London, 9 January 2014 – Global IT spending will increase at a cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.6% to reach $40.8bn by 2017, predicts Ovum. According to new figures from the global analyst firm, highest growth will be in the Asia-Pacific region, in the small to mid-sized enterprise subsector, and in the BI and analytics solution area.

A fun conversation leads to a search for time travelers on social media. While unsuccessful, the researchers sure had fun.

January 7, 2014 — (BRONX, NY) — More women are choosing science careers, yet women are notoriously underrepresented in senior academic positions — often because they abandon their careers due to pessimism about advancement. New research suggests that putting more women in decision-making roles on the teams that organize symposia could offer a simple, effective step forward.

Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered an effective strategy that could prevent the human immune system from rejecting the grafts derived from human embryonic stem cells, a major problem now limiting the development of human stem cell therapies. Their discovery may also provide scientists with a better understanding of how tumors evade the human immune system when they spread throughout the body.

New recommendations for using X-rays promise to speed investigations aimed at understanding the structure and function of biologically important proteins – information critical to the development of new drugs. Scientists from two U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, Argonne and Brookhaven, and the University of Washington, Seattle, evaluated options to remedy problems affecting data collection in their new study.

In this webinar, we’ll address the traditional SWOT but with a sharp focus on infusing it with the specificity needed to bring it to more than a brainstorming exercise.  

University of Delaware's Richard Wool wins Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award.

The latest equipment, instruments and system introductions to the laboratory market. This month, we also highlight some of the vendors who will be exhibiting at SLAS2014.