Background and aims Over the past decades, high-volume lead extraction centres gained broad experience in advanced ...

Conventional lithium mining is a slow, water-intensive, and environmentally damaging process. The prevailing technique, ...

Researchers have developed a new method to prepare bone powder for ancient DNA extraction. The method outperformed previous techniques of decontaminating ancient bones. Researchers from Max Planck ...

Let's face it, we are a results-driven society. Too focused on the outcome, people don't often think about the "how." For instance, did you think about "how" you got to work this morning or did you ...

Used in processed foods and cosmetics, the red pigments in Capsicum (chile pepper) are important sources of non-toxic red dyes. The common method for extracting pigments from dried Capsicum uses ...

Optimised methods of extracting the food colourant carmine could offer industry lower allergenicity and higher stability than currently used extraction techniques, say researchers. Writing in Food ...

Take a look behind the scenes of a recent Reports article, entitled: ‘Rapid extraction of DNA suitable for NGS workflows from bacterial cultures using the PDQeX’, as we ask authors about PDQeX, a new ...

From medicine to make-up, plastics to paper -- hardly a day goes by when we don't use titanium dioxide. Now researchers have developed a simpler, cheaper and greener method of extracting higher yields ...

For automated capture of end points, aims were to (1) develop and test methods to collect end point–defining image files for patients participating in clinical trials, (2) develop a data model and ...

Explore economical honey extraction methods for small-scale beekeepers and learn how one apiary uses a unique system to extract honey from frames. How does a small beekeeping operation get all that ...