Jeans have become very popular across all age groups, and genders. Popular fashion shades include many styles and colors, from dark blue to bright blue and from black to grey. To obtain pale shades, jeans are usually bleached. This first article gives an overview of the working sequence and key requirements of the bleaching process
The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that human genes cannot be patented, drawing a red line between naturally occurring DNA sequences and artificial genes created in the lab.
Open innovation is today a modern management tool within corporate innovation management - in the last decade open innovation has become an important extension to the classical innovation approach, to improve the success rate of the innovation pipeline.
When a majority of us hear "Science Fiction," we immediately associate it with "Star Trek." The imaginations of writers and special effects incorporated in this genre have paved the way for a great deal of technology that we are now taking for granted. As you watch science fiction shows and movies of the past, you can see how we've adapted technologies and how some of the items we use today are reminiscent to those devices created by writers and developers.
In 2012 and Q1 2013, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the chemical industry was low. Now, according to consensus view of the world´s leading consultancy firms, M&A activities in the chemical industry are expected to take off.
The Indian Supreme court has rejected a key patent of Novartis for their cancer drug Glivec. The verdict adds to a series of strikes against multinational pharmaceutical companies to gain patent rights in India, potentially one of the biggest pharmaceutical markets in the world.
Membrane technologies are applied for seawater desalination to address one of the world´s biggest challenge: scarcity of clean water. Scientific progress is reported with nano-scaled perforated graphene membranes. Potentially this would allow more affordable water desalination and give access to abundant clean water.
Smart textiles are a big hope for the European textile industry for future business opportunities. The article outlines the differences to wearable electronics and functional textiles, and explains the challenges for the development of smart textiles.
The joint roadmap of the zero discharge of hazardous chemicals (ZDHC) programme in the textile industry is moving to version 2. An environmental management system and work streams are suggested. Greenpeace criticized some of the proposed changes to the roadmap.
15 year old teenager Jack Andraka invented a pancreatic cancer test many times faster, considerably cheaper and more accurate than the current testing standard in today’s standard cancer diagnostics.