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“Portable Device for Measuring Breath Acetone Based on Sample Preconcentration and Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopy” Analytical Chemistry

Technospark, a nanotech park in Troitsk just outside Moscow, and LVM AT, a Russian tech engineering company, have inked an agreement with Germany’s Concept Laser which is paving the way for Russia’s pioneering production of 3D printed endoprostheses for joints, interbody fusion cages and implants for intracranial and oral/maxillofacial surgery, announced Rusnano, Russia’s largest nanotech company.

Scientists at the Moscow Lomonosov State University (MSU) have developed durable and nontoxic polymer coatings that are believed to be able to kill up to 99.999% of pathogenic microorganisms. The coatings are not water-soluble, MSU emphasizes on its website. An English-language article describing the project will be published in the January issue of Materials Science and Engineering: C.

One hundred participants from more than fifty nations had only three minutes to present their research projects, ideas and initiatives before an international audience at the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin yesterday. The following three finalists were able to convince the interdisciplinary jury and the audience and were chosen as the ‘Falling Walls Young Innovators 2016’: The jury’s favourite and winner of the Falling Walls Lab 2016 was Dang Huyen Chau from Technische Universität Dresden. She won over the jury with her idea of recycling oil-rich coffee grounds as a biofuel.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a new way to block the action of genetic mutations found in nearly 30 percent of all cancers.

When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea. By Geoff Watts.

Scientists have developed a type of HIV test on a USB stick.

HZDR researchers conduct electricity using DNA-based nanowires