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Scientists create cell assembly line

Borrowing a page from modern manufacturing, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have built a microscopic assembly line that mass produces synthetic cell-like compartments.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemists create novel DNA assembly line

Chemists at New York University and China's Nanjing University have created a DNA assembly line that has the potential to create novel materials efficiently on the nanoscale. Their work is reported in the latest issue of ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inside a plant's pharma factory

A newly discovered enzyme brings scientists one step closer to understanding how plants manufacture a molecule with potent medicinal properties.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Xbox workers threaten suicide in China labor tiff

(AP) -- Dozens of workers assembling Xbox video game consoles climbed to a factory dormitory roof, and some threatened to jump to their deaths, in a dispute over job transfers that was defused but highlights growing labor ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Building blocks of the future

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Varinder Aggarwal is no ordinary builder. He and his team in the School of Chemistry have just discovered a new technique that could hasten the development of new drugs for today’s ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Robots speed up path to discovery

The work force at Lake Nona's Sanford-Burnham Institute includes 90 scientific staffers, 60 administrators and support personnel -- and a team of three robots. The trio is part of a $15 million investment from the National ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Foxconn shuts India plant after 250 workers hospitalised

Taiwan's troubled IT giant Foxconn has suspended operations at a factory in India after 250 workers were hospitalised in an incident thought to be linked to spraying of pesticide.

Technology / Business

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US radio episode about Apple factory abuse retracted

A popular US radio program on Friday retracted a story about harsh working conditions at factories that make Apple products in China, saying it contained "significant fabrications."

Technology / Business

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Robots are coming to aircraft assembly

Up to now, aircraft have been put together in huge assembly cells, but to build the necessary facilities is expensive and time-consuming. That is why Fraunhofer researchers have come up with a flexible assembly-line ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Catering to car buyers' desires

(PhysOrg.com) -- Buying a new car is one of the biggest purchases most people make. But how can you be sure that the car you order will live up to your expectations? European and Asian researchers are using ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taiwan's Quanta to cut 1,000 workers

Taiwan's Quanta Computer, a leading notebook computer maker, said Wednesday it will lay off 1,000 workers at a local factory that was reopened just months ago due to poor sales of non-iPad tablets.

Technology / Business

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lasers take the lead

Conserving energy is a top priority for auto manufacturers today. Laser technology can help. Lasers can be used to process thin light-weight components made of fiber-composite materials, as well as to manufacture ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

iPhone-maker rallies workers after China suicides

(AP) -- Young workers who normally spend their days assembling iPhones and other high-tech gadgets packed a stadium at their massive campus Wednesday, waving pompoms and shouting slogans at a rally to raise ...

Technology / Business

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Software development gets a better production line

(PhysOrg.com) -- Work by European researchers means that software is about to get the assembly line treatment. It offers a powerful new paradigm for software development.

Technology / Software

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Foxconn to give Chinese workers another pay raise

(AP) -- Foxconn workers in China will get another pay raise in coming months, on top of an increase that just took effect in response to recent worker suicides, the company said Sunday.

Technology / Business

created Jun 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0