Nordson acquires Kreyenborg Group’s companies

Properties deepen and expand Nordson’s offering to global extrusion, compounding and recycling markets.

Toray expands composite materials business

Toray strategically expands automobile-related carbon fiber composite material business in U.S. with the purchase of a stake in U.S.-based CFRP parts manufacturer.

Paraffin specimens improve tumour histology

RNA diagnostic test from paraffin improves lung cancer diagnosis over routine microscopic evaluation alone

Nanoparticles carry tumour-fighting drugs

Nanoparticles with protein ‘passports’ evade immune system to deliver more medication to tumours

Hamamatsu, Zecotek to collaborate on imaging technology

Zecotek and Hamamatsu Photonics sign joint collaboration and commercialization agreement

Everolimus reduces seizures in TSC patients

Drug originally developed to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs shows dramatic reduction in seizures in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)

How BRCA1 mutation starts breast, ovarian cancers

Over time, in the presence of oestrogen, BRCA1-deficient cells accumulate more and more mutations due to their lack of ability to repair DNA damage, eventually leading to the development of cancer in these tissues

Steam sterilization indicator test approved for sale

U.S. FDA permits marketing of quicker method for checking effectiveness of medical device steam sterilization

New treatment for late stage lung cancer

U.S. FDA approves Gilotrif (afatinib) for patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer and a companion test also approved to identify appropriate patients

Our ‘city of microbes’ may maintain our health

Many researchers believe that there is a direct link between elevated rates of autoimmune diseases and Western society’s obsession to establish germ-free environments… Could repopulating our guts with microbes and re-establishing a healthy balance to our microbiome help address this problem?

‘Bath salts’ stimulant more addictive than meth?

Researchers confirmed the powerful stimulant effects of MDPV, an emerging recreational drug that has been sold as bath salts, in rats and found evidence that it could be more addictive than methamphetamine

Taiwan, New Zealand sign free trade deal

New Zealand signed a free trade agreement with Taiwan in a deliberately low-key ceremony designed to demonstrate the South Pacific nation's fealty to its formal relations with mainland China.