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There is a great opportunity in Southeast Asia to grow the network of groups active in the controlled release field. The CoRE-Net group of A*Star focusses on bringing together companies and scientific professionals with a common interest in controlled release and encapsulation technologies by…
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Grapholita molesta insects (GM) inhabit fruit trees (e.g., peach, apple, and pear), and their larvae destroy fruit.1 Although various pesticides have been used for prevention of GM, the larvae cannot be prevented from entering fruit.1 Sex-pheromone-mediated mating disruption (MD) has…
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Electrospinning is an electrostatic fiber fabrication technique producing homogeneous fibers in the nanometer range. The process involves dropping a polymer solution in an electric field in such a way that the electric forces overcome the polymer solution surface tension and the drop…
We are constantly inundated with offers for internet seminars, discussion groups, and short meetings on interesting topics. These are pitched as convenient since you can access them often at any time, even post event, on any device with no flight delays, hotel costs, or loss of several days for…
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Non-ionic surfactant vesicles (NISV), or “niosomes,” are synthetic bilayer vesicles typically formed by the self-assembly of non-ionic surfactants, cholesterol, and the addition of a charged species. NISV exhibit more advantages over liposomes, in terms of cost and stability, and…
Arto Urtti is a professor of biopharmaceutics at the University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland. At the University of Helsinki he has headed the Centre for Drug Research within the Faculty of Pharmacy. He has also been the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Pharmaceutical…
