Thermo Registers San Jose Facility with FDA

The process of assessing and monitoring heart disease, the leading cause of death in the US, is often expensive and time-consuming. A new app that incorporates pulse data to diagnose arterial changes could simplify the whole process.

Malaria causes the bodies of its human hosts to emit specific odours from the skin that make the hosts even more attractive to mosquitoes, perpetuating transmission. Researchers have now identified the odours as organic hydrocarbons heptanal, octanal and nonanal, whose discovery could bring relief to a disease that claimed nearly half a million lives in 2016.

Chemists have discovered a new and relatively unknown flame retardant, TTBP-TAX, in the environment. The chemical was not only identified in an electronic waste facility, where it would be expected, but in the bedrooms and living rooms of homes.