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Dartmouth, GlycoFi researchers make leap in protein bioengineering
Investigators at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and the biotechnology firm GlycoFi, Inc., report a breakthrough in using yeast to produce antibodies with human sugar structures.   view more (2006-01-23)

New Method for Measuring Residual Stress Developed at Oxford
An inventor in Oxford University’s Department of Engineering Science has developed a new portable instrument for the measurement of residual stress in engineering components and structures.   view more (2002-11-13)

Breakthrough in geomechanics research recognised by Royal Society
A research breakthrough by a University of Nottingham professor that will have important implications for engineering design involving rolling and sliding contact such as road railway foundations has been unveiled in a prestigious journal.   view more (2005-05-24)

Molecular engineers consult nature
Nature has been manipulating structures on the atomic and molecular scale for millions of years, in comparison humans have only been developing these techniques over the last few decades. Molecular engineering builds structures and devices at the smallest scales imaginable, aiming to make better... view more (2002-09-10)

Dartmouth and GlycoFi report full humanization of therapeutic proteins from yeast
Researchers at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth Medical School, and the biotechnology firm GlycoFi, Inc., report a significant advance in the production of therapeutic proteins.   view more (2006-09-08)

Chemists Find Too Much Air Sticks Precious Carbon Footballs Together
Ever since researchers discovered a form of carbon consisting of a class of miniature, football-like structures known as fullerenes, they have been racing to use the unique structures in all kinds of novel ways from drug delivery to nanotechnology. However, chemists at the Universities of Warwick... view more (1998-12-15)

Junior award for bronze structures
The German Society of Electroplating and Surface Technology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Galvano- und Oberfl'¤chentechnik e.V., DGO,) has honoured Dipl.-Ing. Gabriele Goet with the DGO-Award 2002. The prize is awarded once a year for valuable scientific contributions in the fields of... view more (2002-11-28)

Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's a bridge!
A government lab in Teddington has taken on its biggest sample for analysis to date - a 14 tonne foot-bridge.   view more (2008-04-02)

Dental stem cells have been characterized for tooth tissue engineering
Today, during the 84th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research, a team from The Forsyth Institute (Boston, MA, USA) will report that their research has demonstrated that mixed populations of cultured post-natal tooth bud cells can be used to generate bioengineered... view more (2006-06-29)

Geotimes: The impending coastal crisis
Coastlines are the most dynamic feature on the planet. In the March issue, Geotimes magazine looks into the risks of increased development along our coastlines and what that means for erosion, flooding and future development.   view more (2008-03-13)

MIT zeroes in on Alzheimer's structures
MIT engineers report a new approach to identifying protein structures key to Alzheimer's disease, an important step toward the development of new drugs that could prevent such structures from forming.   view more (2008-08-22)

Movement of atoms viewed at 100 times higher than previous resolution
A paper published in Nature, by scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Warwick and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, describes how experts have used X-rays to see structures in unprecedented detail at the atomic scale. The technique is 100 times more sensitive than any other... view more (2005-05-04)

Polarized particles join toolbox for building unique structures
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created polarized, spherical particles that spontaneously self-assemble into clusters with specific shapes and distributions of electric charge.   view more (2006-10-13)

Automated technique paves way for nanotechnology's industrial revolution
In an assist in the quest for ever smaller electronic devices, Duke University engineers have adapted a decades-old computer aided design and manufacturing process to reproduce nanosize structures with features on the order of single molecules.   view more (2007-08-02)

Astronomers discover largest-ever dark matter structures spanning 270M light-years
A University of British Columbia astronomer with an international team has discovered the largest structures of dark matter ever seen. Measuring 270 million light-years across, these dark matter structures criss-cross the night sky, each spanning an area that is eight times larger than the full... view more (2008-02-22)

Study: Wireless sensors limit earthquake damage
An earthquake engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has successfully performed the first test of wireless sensors in the simulated structural control of a model laboratory building.   view more (2007-04-17)

£180K for Plymouth to lead national coastal research networks
Researchers at the Universities of Plymouth, Strathclyde and Edinburgh have been awarded £180,000 from the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council to co-ordinate coastal engineering research across the UK into areas such as coastal defences, coastal flooding and erosion and the... view more (2002-05-08)

From 2-D blueprint, material assembles into novel 3-D nanostructures
An international team of scientists affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center has coaxed a self-assembling material into forming never-before-seen, three-dimensional nanoscale structures, with potential applications ranging from catalysis and... view more (2006-01-30)

Researchers Apply Systems Biology and Glycomics to Study Human Inflammatory Diseases
An innovative systems biology approach to understanding the carbohydrate structures in cells is leading to new ways to understand how inflammatory illnesses and cardiovascular disease develop in humans. The work was described in two recent publications by University at Buffalo chemical engineers.   view more (2008-10-29)

Academy welcomes Excellence and Opportunity
The Royal Academy of Engineering welcomes the initiatives set out in today’s DTI White Paper Excellence and Opportunity – a science and innovation policy for the 21st century. The additional funds announced by the Chancellor in the Comprehensive Spending Review, though undoubtedly... view more (2000-07-26)

Non-Destructive Residual Stress Analysis
Every manufacturing process, from casting and forging, to machining and finishing, induces residual stresses in components. For critical components, such as aircraft wings and turbine blades, these stresses affect the durability and lifetime of the structures and assemblies. Current methods are... view more (2004-03-11)

Cutting Edge basic research gets £20M funding
More than £20M is to be awarded to 8 research projects around the UK to help scientists develop basic technologies that will have high impact and wide-reaching benefits. The work will affect all aspects of our lives ranging from cancer research, medical diagnosis and tissue engineering to... view more (2002-02-25)

BREAKTHROUGH ON TELOMERE SHORTENING: FIRST EVER OBSERVATION OF DIFERENTIAL RATE OF TELOMERE SHORTENING AMONG HUMAN CHROMOSOMES
Telomeres perform very important functions in maintaining genetic stability in the cells - they prevent chromosomes from joining together, they protect the ends against degradation and they play a role in ensuring correct segregation of the chromosomes during cell division - in addition, they also... view more (1999-12-17)

Millennium Dome creators up for UK's biggest engineering prize
The engineers who have translated a national vision into reality in the form of the Millennium Dome now have a 1 in 4 shot at winning the UK's biggest engineering prize, the £50,000 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award for innovation. Tonight, 24 June 1999, the Academy will announce a... view more (1999-06-24)

Rensselaer researchers create tiny magnetic diamonds on the nanoscale
Diamonds have always been alluring, but now a team of scientists has made them truly magnetic - on the nanoscale.   view more (2005-09-13)
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