It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. —Samuel Johnson—1763 TODAY, nearly 200 years later, U.S. industry has coined ...

Dr. Milton Lee, Professor of Chemistry in the Depart­ment of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Brigham Young University, talks to AZoM about the miniaturization of columns in chromatography and what the ...

Through its subsidiary InPlay, Trackonomy provides advanced semiconductor innovations that play a central role in enabling CTT's recently showcased solar-powered tracker, the BluMorpho. This device, ...

We’re accustomed to having the power of communications and computing in the palm of our hand, but 70 years ago, developing equipment small enough to carry and conceal was something that seemed ...

Pressures to save API are driving formulation developers toward smaller-scale laboratory processes, while pressures to save time put a premium on more- accurate laboratory scale tools. Pressures to ...

Miniaturization has truly transformed two categories of medical devices: cardiovascular and insulin delivery devices. For instance, “a heart support pump wouldn’t be possible without miniaturization ...

Medical devices are getting smaller, less invasive, and more advanced. From a product development and manufacturing perspective, the desire to go ever smaller creates some big — but not unsurmountable ...

When Robert Hooke sought to depict the anatomy of an ant, he put one under a microscope and started to sketch. The ant did not wait for him to finish. Hooke captured another and glued down its feet, ...

Choosing assays for pharmaceutical screening is often a compromise between using the ideal target biologies and the harsh realities of reagent availability and cost. This is especially acute during ...

In the movies, Ant-Man can shrink down to the size of an insect to carry out his superhero missions. It makes for fun cinema, but of course, it is impossible. For starters, biological systems can't ...

It’s not a bird or plane. It’s an unmanned aircraft. Today’s unmanned aerial vehicles look like fighter aircraft, but the next generation of aircraft will more likely resemble brainy birds. By taking ...