A team of biochemical engineers is scaling up an enzyme-driven process to produce an essential pharmaceutical building block. The key parameters are well established at lab scale, but translating them ...

(Original Caption) Lana, a 21/2 year old chimpanzee, uses a typewriter like device to punch out sentences using symbols for words in an experiment April 27th at the Yerkes Regional Primate Center at ...

(Blacksburg, Va., August 29, 2001) -- Using combinatorial and in-parallel experimentation techniques accelerates creativity and allows researchers to make discoveries more quickly, says Timothy E.

Research & development (R&D) can be the ultimate black box. Start with smart people. Add a pile of money. Wait for the next cool technology to pop out. When will it happen? No one can tell. Will it ...

In the early 1920s, a trio of scientists sat down for a break at Rothamsted agricultural research station in Hertfordshire, UK. One of them, a statistician by the name of Ronald Fisher, poured a cup ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can uncover patterns invisible to common approaches. In their paper titled ...