The flame retardant industry expanded in the 1970s when synthetic materials became popular in the manufacture of products. The growing demand and consumption of these flammable products led many...
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On May 17th, the 26th Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Flame Retardancy of Polymeric Materials will welcome scientific and technical specialists to the premier fire retardant event in th...
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After a successful trial at a London Underground station, a flame retardant natural rubber has been approved for commercial use in flooring. Natural-FR, developed by the Tun Abdul Razak Resea...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/05/flame-retardant-flooring-at-london.html
A biomarker that can help predict the success of chemotherapy in ovarian cancer patients has been discovered by researchers. The discovery, by cancer researcher Madhuri Koti of Queen’s Univ...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/04/biomarker-discovery-improves-treatment.html
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers took a trip to the grocery store and cooked up their best fire-resistant coatings for furniture padding yet. More important, th...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-one-pot-process-for-flame-retardants.html
A new generation of fuel crops—plants designed specifically to serve as feedstocks for fuels —would provide a clean, green and renewable alternative to the burning of fossil fuels, but only ...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/04/proteomic-technologies-fueling-market.html
A discovery of how the body’s immune system protects against malaria may hold promise for a vaccine against the disease, which kills as many as 600,000 people each year, mostly children. Curre...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/04/research-on-malaria-vaccines-showing.html
Two teams of researchers from Bucknell University and its Geisinger Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute (ADMI) are conducting different studies to explore the same thing: how to diagno...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-new-perspective-on-autism-spectrum.html
The world’s first fully digital radio transmitter promises to improve the wireless communications capabilities of everything from 5G mobile technologies to the multitude devices aimed at suppo...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/03/make-way-for-pizzicatothe-new-wireless.html
The Eiffel Tower is greener than ever. The 125-year-old structure is partially powering itself, thanks to two new wind turbines . The turbines will produce about 10,000 kilowatt hours of electri...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/03/combining-beauty-with-greener-tomorrow.html
World-renowned researchers will discuss their work and discuss the latest developments related to flame retardancy at the 26th BCC Meeting on Flame Retardancy , scheduled May 18–20, 2015, at t...
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Chemotherapy stops or slows the growth of cancer cells, but it also damages healthy cells. Researchers are exploring treatments that attack cancer cells with better precision, thus reducing the ...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/03/treating-cancer-tumors-is-one.html
In Australia, the effects of global warming have raised concerns about the methods used to fire-proof buildings made of timber, a necessary precaution in a country whose torrid summer heat and p...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-green-innovation-that-protects-and.html
For years researchers have sought alternatives to the finger-pricking method for measuring blood glucose levels. People with diabetes typically test their glucose levels several times a day by p...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/02/no-pain-doubles-gain-cost-efficient.html
According to GLOBOCAN 2012 , there were 14.1 million new cancer cases, 8.2 million cancer deaths and a staggering 32.6 million people living with cancer (within five years of diagnosis) worldwid...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/02/breast-cancer-deaths-declining-as.html
Losses caused by fire are disastrous. Most notable are the victims and firefighters who are killed and injured. Displacement and devastation of property can be significant. Economic losses are h...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2015/01/2015-flame-conference-recent-advances.html
In a research conducted at Harvard University, a new gene-editing technique was used to create what could prove to be an effective method for blocking HIV from invading and destroying patients'...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2014/11/will-gene-edited-stem-cells-hold-key-to.html
The number of people around the world suffering from diabetes has skyrocketed in the last two decades, from 30 million to 230 million , claiming millions of lives and severely taxing the ability...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-number-ofpeople-around-world.html
Vaccines are considered a standard preventive treatment in many clinical situations today. They work by inducing an immune response against an inert pathogen to protect against future infection....
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-impact-of-dna-vaccines-on.html
Although the origin of Light Emitting Diode or LED technology can be traced back to 1927, it did not enter the commercial arena until much later. This was largely due to its high production cost...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2014/10/transforming-future-of-lighting-systems.html
For centuries, the mysteries of grey matter have baffled scientists and researchers alike. How can humans manage to store countless moments, past and present, in one single organ? How can animal...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2014/10/minding-our-brains-business-unravelling.html
The health industry is increasingly responding to the rising popularity and availability of technological innovations, such as tablets and smartphones. The use of connected devices to collect pa...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-changing-face-of-healthcare.html
Environmental field monitoring technologies have advanced rapidly in the last decade, concurrent with advances in digital technology, computational power and Internet-enabled communications. Env...
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The banking or preservation of stem cells such as from umbilical cord blood or bone marrow has been increasing, as the potential for using stem cells in clinical applications continues to fuel s...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2014/09/to-preserve-or-not-to-preserve-future.html
The impending explosion of the wearable computing market is one of the most interesting and highly anticipated developments taking place in the high-tech industry. The $3 billion wearable consum...
https://bccresearch.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-big-bang-theory-of-wearable.html