Page 3 - Emerging Technologies
Stay up-to-date with the newest technologies emerging in the filtration industry!
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February 11, 2022As the coronavirus pandemic persists into 2022, medical experts are pressed to discover options for treating Covid-19. According to scientists at Northwestern Medicine and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, natural nanobubbles containing the ACE2 protein (evACE2) in the blood of COVID-19 patients have been found as one possible cure. In preclinical experiments, they discovered that these nanoparticles could prevent infection from a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 virus strains.
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January 17, 2022Water scarcity is a global concern that’s become more complicated due to demographic growth and climate change, prompting the search for alternative resources. In many parts of the world, two of the most practical and achievable methods to securing water are desalination and wastewater reuse. For decades, membrane-based technologies have been widely used for water treatment due to accessibility, simple operation, adaptability to various feed compositions and operation pressures, and consideration for the environment, unlike chemical or thermal approaches. However, only in recent decades have options for reducing, recycling, or reusing elements been investigated (Prince, et al., 2011).
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November 12, 2021Cancer is considered one of the world’s most serious illnesses. In 2021, the United States alone is expected to see 1,898,160 new cancer cases. As more people develop cancer, expenditures are projected to rise in the coming years, because cancer cannot be cured with a single, universal treatment, as it is characterized by a plethora of types and genetic mutations. Current standard care, such as chemotherapy and radiation, can successfully treat cancer, but not without side effects. Presently, when doctors use these methods, healthy tissues that aren’t cancerous are affected and tend to lead to unintended complications.
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October 13, 2021Traditional wastewater treatment methods are costly and struggling to keep up with increasing demands on freshwater resources. Innovations in nanobubble technology take advantage of the unique properties of tiny bubbles to provide water treatment solutions.
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September 17, 2021Summary: As scientists and engineers tackle bigger problems, sometimes the best solutions are very small. Nanobubbles, tiny gas spheres of 200 nm or less, have exciting potential in a range of applications spanning from wastewater treatment to medicine.
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June 14, 2021A new kind of moisture-absorbing material was developed to speed up the evaporation of sweat from skin. The so-called Co-SHM films change color as they absorb moisture and have so far been tested in various personal comfort applications. Integrating the absorbent film with a wearable energy transducer shows potential for the future smart-clothes for fitness or everyday use.
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March 09, 2021
In this final installment of our AlphaFold series, we will tell the story of how DeepMind, a research developer in the AI community, leveraged its AlphaFold system to play a vital role in the fight against COVID-19.
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March 09, 2021
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Household plastic waste is an increasing global problem as the annual supply of new plastics greatly outweighs their rate of biodegradation or recycling. Discovery of a new enzyme from plastic-eating bacteria, may hold the key for improving plastic recycling and reducing the amount of plastic waste in our environment.
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February 15, 2021
While 2020 was a difficult time across many metrics, it was an exciting year for protein science!
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January 18, 2021Predicting the shape of a protein from its amino acid sequence is one of biology’s greatest puzzles, known as the protein folding problem. The three dimensional, or globular shape of a protein is essential to its cellular function, which means that visualizing protein structures is vital to numerous fields across the biological sciences. However, there are significant challenges to solving protein conformations through lab-based methods. Huge diversity of amino acid combinations, health risks from X-Ray crystallography, and rapid degradation of protein samples has led to slow and often frustrating progress for biochemists over the last fifty years (1). The next generation of methods in protein structure elucidation hinge on advanced computing power and artificial intelligence.
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