Arrivederci, laboratory waste

Starlab expands sustainable recycling program to Italy

28-Feb-2025 - Following its successful establishment in Germany, Austria, France and the UK, Starlab is further expanding its innovative recycling program for laboratory plastics: Italian laboratories can now also take part in the TipOne recycling service. In cooperation with the REMONDIS Group, the company is ...

Not all cancers are equal: Getting a Better Look at Tumors

MRI-based method detects water exchange in tumor cells to measure their malignancy

10-Jan-2024 - The cycling of water across membrane transporters is an hallmark of the cell metabolism and is potentially of high diagnostic significance for the characterization of tumors and other diseases. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, an Italian research team has now introduced a new MRI-based method ...

Synthetic Genes for Flu Test

Electrochemical biosensor for antibody detection

17-Jan-2023 - The quantitative detection of specific antibodies in complex samples such as blood can inform on many different diseases but usually requires a complicated laboratory procedure. A new method for the rapid, inexpensive, yet quantitative and specific point-of-care detection of antibodies has now ...

RNA: A new method to discover its high-resolution structure

New research combines experimental data and molecular dynamics simulations to study biomolecules in their natural environment

16-Jun-2021 - The structure of a biomolecule can reveal much about its functioning and interaction with the surrounding environment. The double-helical structure of DNA and its implications for the processes of transmission of genetic information form an obvious example. In a new study by SISSA - Scuola ...

BOSELLO now fully part of the ZEISS Group

BOSELLO HIGH TECHNOLOGY becomes Carl Zeiss X-ray Technologies Srl

14-Dec-2020 - ZEISS and BOSELLO HIGH TECHNOLOGY (BOSELLO) announce that the Italian supplier of solutions for industrial X-ray systems, is now fully part of the ZEISS Group and will operate under the name Carl Zeiss X-ray Technologies Srl. In 2018, ZEISS acquired a majority stake in BOSELLO to strengthen its ...

Bracco Imaging and Shanghai Pharmaceuticals join forces in the field of ultrasound

23-May-2018 - Bracco Imaging S.p.A. and Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Holding Co. Ltd. have signed a collaboration agreement on new R&D activities in China. The collaboration is focused on the exploitation of the potentialities of the Bracco microbubbles technology platform, to support the development of innovative ...

The large-scale stability of chromosomes

30-Jun-2016 - "Interphase" refers to the period in the cell cycle in which chromosomes spend most of their time. During this phase, in between mitoses, chromosomes live "dissolved'' in the nucleus where they carry out the processes required for the duplication of genetic material. Our current knowledge ...

Short, Ultrashort, Sub-Cycle Short

Making light pulses ever-shorter is one of the goals in ultrafast optics.

04-Jun-2015 - Ultrashort light pulses are a valuable achievement. They make it possible to observe chemical reactions, opening up the field of femtochemistry. Other current and/or future applications include high capacity telecommunications systems, photonic switching devices, optical coherence tomography, and ...

Volcano pollution could lead to Parkinson’s misdiagnosis

11-Jun-2013 - Research suggests that the effects of pollution from eruptions from Mount Etna could be leading to misdiagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in the surrounding area. Scientists in Italy used X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) for the first time to investigate the chemical composition of the surface ...

LabVantage Announces New Office in Monza, Italy

03-Aug-2010 - LabVantage announced the opening of its new office in Monza, Italy. "This new office not only serves as the strategic business development center for the European market, but also enables LabVantage to provide comprehensive training and prompt client services to both our local and regional ...