AIChE Foundation Establishes John C. Chen Endowment for Young Professional Leadership Friends and colleagues of the late John C. Chen — the Carl R. Anderson Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh Univ., and an AIChE Fellow and past...
May
2018
For millennia, civilizations have extracted indigo dye from plants, creating a product that by the 18th century had become a driver of global economics. But, as the 20th century began, global output of natural indigo fell by over 90% as synthetic indigo took its place.
May
2018
Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future Hemant Taneja, PublicAffairs, New York, NY, $28, 240 pages, Mar. 2018, ISBN: 978-1-610-39812-1 An innovative trend combining technology with economics is...
May
2018
Although pharmaceutical manufacturing has a rich history of delivering lifesaving drugs and therapies to patients, quality control concerns within manufacturing facilities as well as patient safety incidents prompted the creation of regulatory...
Extracting metals from old electronics is more cost-effective than mining those metals from the earth, say researchers Xianlai Zeng and Jinhui Li of Tsinghua Univ. in Beijing and John A. Mathews of Macquarie Univ. in Sydney.
New research finds that fluid shear stresses inside the abdomen may promote cancer’s spread by fostering chromosomal changes in normal cells and encouraging cancerous cells to cluster in immune-resistant spheroids.
Blond hair can be dyed black by a permanent, graphene-based pigment. These dyes survived more than 30 vigorous washings, which is comparable to commercial permanent dyes.
A new platform that mimics the interactions among up to 10 organs in the human body could eventually replace animal testing of drugs for safety and efficacy.
