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DigiM’s Quantitative Image Characterization Featured in FDA Workshop

DigiM Solution LLC, a software and technology solution company, was invited to present at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) public workshop “Generic Drug Regulatory Science Initiatives,” held virtually on May 4, 2020. Dr. Shawn Zhang, the company’s founder and CEO, presented in “Breakout Session 3: In Vitro Bioequivalence Methods.” DigiM’s presentation, “Image-based Microstructure Bioequivalence Evaluation,” highlighted a novel method to characterize API particles and microporosity in drug products.

From DigiM Solution LLC 30 Jun 2020

New Graphene-Based Sensor Detects Histamine down to 3.41 PPM

Researchers dipped their new, printed sensors into tuna broth and watched the readings.

30 Jun 2020

Researchers Design New Discontinuous Fibrous Bouligand Structure

A team led by Prof. NI Yong and Prof. HE Linghui from University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences designed a discontinuous fibrous Bouligand architecture, a combination of Bouligand and nacreous staggered structures.

30 Jun 2020

New Technique Accurately Welds Resins, Ensures Higher Quality of Products

JST announced the result of the development project "a precision joining device with heat sink laser welding" by Adaptable and Seamless Technology Transfer Program through Target-driven R & D (A-STEP) enterprise-led phase NexTEP-A type as successful.

30 Jun 2020

New Tiny Sensor Monitors Fruits, Vegetables by Detecting Ethylene Gas

NIMS and AIST have developed a small sensor capable of continuously monitoring the plant hormone ethylene.

30 Jun 2020

Study Achieve Nanometric Displacement Measurement Using Optical Antennas

Micro - nano Optics and Technology Research Group led by Prof. LU Yonghua and Prof. WANG Pei from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) realized nanometric displacement measurement through the interaction between the illumination optical field and the optical antennas.

30 Jun 2020

Study Analyzes Different Properties of Mask Filters After Cleaning Treatments

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, masks have become an essential personal hygiene product as the first line of defense to protect one's respiratory system against the viruses and germs that spread through droplets in the air.

30 Jun 2020

New Study Could Lead to Refined Probing of Ice Cores

The history of our planet has been written, among other things, in the periodic reversal of its magnetic poles.

30 Jun 2020

Study Investigates Hydrogen Bond Network Around Hydrophobic Molecules

In water, hydrophobic molecules are surrounded by a two different water populations: the inner shell forms a two-dimensional network of water molecules.

30 Jun 2020

Study Precisely Simulates High-Pressure Plasma Confinement in Large Helical Device

The research team of Assistant Professor Masahiko Sato and Professor Yasushi Todo of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences National Institute for Fusion Science has succeeded using computer simulation in reproducing the high-pressure plasma confinement observed in the Large Helical Device.

30 Jun 2020

Topology Optimization of Helical Fusion Reactor Design Reduces its Weight

The group of associate professor Hitoshi Tamura and others of the National Institute of Natural Sciences (NINS) National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) first applied topology optimization technique to the concept design of a helical fusion reactor which aims to demonstrate power generation.

30 Jun 2020

New Lighter Nanofiber Protects Wearers from Extreme Temperatures, Explosions

Since World War I, the vast majority of American combat casualties has come not from gunshot wounds but from explosions.

30 Jun 2020

New Imaging Method Helps Observe Elusive Critical Fluctuations in 2D Magnets

Like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster, critical spin fluctuations in a magnetic system haven't been captured on film.

30 Jun 2020

New Way to Store Data by Sliding Atomically Thin Metal layers over One Another

A Stanford-led team has invented a way to store data by sliding atomically thin layers of metal over one another, an approach that could pack more data into less space than silicon chips, while also using less energy.

30 Jun 2020

Study Discovers Massive Emission from Nanoscale Gap Between Gold Electrodes

Seeing light emerge from a nanoscale experiment didn't come as a big surprise to Rice University physicists. But it got their attention when that light was 10,000 times brighter than they expected.

30 Jun 2020