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Enabling Gene Therapy Access Using A Cell-Based Companion Diagnostic (CDx)
This study highlights how we overcame developmental challenges by employing a customized approach that leveraged scientific expertise, strategic collaboration, and effective governance.
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Leeton Shire Improves Efficiency And Service Levels With An Affordable, Intuitive Digital Solution
Although Leeton Shire already had some digital technologies in place, such as SCADA, GIS and AMI, they lacked hydraulic modeling capabilities and expertise — which is why they turned to Qatium’s open and secure water management platform.
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Sol-Gel Builds Awareness Of Rare Skin Condition, Generates Leads
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Using eConsent Data To Populate Site And Sponsor Data Systems
A top-10 pharmaceutical company was looking to reduce the amount of administrative burden on their clinical trial sites and themselves. See how we accomplished it, using eConsent.
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Transforming Clinical Supply Planning From Spreadsheets To Smart Forecasting
Streamline your clinical supply forecasting and reduce risk by moving beyond manual spreadsheets to an integrated, real-time supply management solution.
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Aqua TruDense™ Provides Additional Capacity, Improves Settling, And Achieves Enhanced Nutrient Removal
A densified sludge process can improve wastewater treatment by promoting larger, denser sludge particles. This enhances settling, improves nutrient removal, and increases treatment capacity.
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Driving A High-Adherence LTFU Trial Without An EDC
Discover how our partnership with a client was able to deliver a ten-year long-term follow-up (LTFU) trial that delivered an over 90% adherence rate while keeping trial costs low by not using an EDC.
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Minimizing Water Outages With Targeted Valve Control
The Town of Holly Springs, NC, used Hydra-Stop's Insta-Valve 250 insertion valves to repair a leak in a transmission line without causing water service outages to over 40 residences. This solution saved the town from widespread outages and other costs associated with a system shutdown.
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Enabling Simpler, Quieter, And More Precise Wearables Utilizing Disruptive Pump Technology
Disc pumps enable quieter, smaller, and more precise wearable medical devices, improving patient comfort, measurement accuracy, and system reliability for innovative healthcare solutions.
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A Streamlined Biopharmaceutical Isolator Solution
This custom-designed, eight-foot isolator helped a client meet their decontamination needs, maintaining ISO-5 sterile conditions while decreasing turn-around time for filling small batches.
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Case Study: Recruiting Pediatric Ultra-Rare Disease Patients
Explore how Rezolute was able to overcome challenges while recruiting pediatric patients for a Congenital Hyperinsulinism (HI) clinical trial using a streamlined, single-source tool.
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Mobile Sterile Compounding Pharmacy USP 797/800
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NEWS
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Rivers Choose Their Path Based On Erosion — A Discovery That Could Transform Flood Planning And Restoration7/10/2025
Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea.
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Climate Extremes In 2024 'Wreaking Havoc' On The Global Water Cycle1/6/2025
2024 was another year of record-breaking temperatures, driving the global water cycle to new climate extremes and contributing to ferocious floods and crippling droughts, a new report led by The Australian National University (ANU) shows.
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Researchers Develop New Design And Fabrication Method To Make Lightsails For Interstellar Travel3/27/2025
Since its launch in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled over 15 billion miles into deep space.
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Trident IoT Unveils Revolutionary Software Development Kits For Z-Wave/ZWLR And Zigbee RF SoCs4/2/2025
Trident IoT is proud to announce the release of its highly anticipated Software Development Kits (SDKs) for its latest line of Z-Wave/ZWLR and Zigbee RF System-on-Chips (SoCs).
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AMBIR Launches Advanced Healthcare Barcode Scanner Series To Enhance Patient Safety And Clinical Productivity7/2/2025
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Mixing and Blending
Mixing and blending are terms that have specific meaning in the food industry. Most food processing experts use the word mixing to describe the process of combining wet and dry materials.
Blending is the term used to describe the process of combining only dry ingredients. The term blending is generally reserved for powders, flakes and granules of varying bulk densities and particle size that require gently blending and minimal contact with blender blades.
Agitation is often used synonymously with the term mixing. However, in food processing, agitation is used to ensure the mixing process to get a homogenous mix is completed faster.
Many industries require the mixing of free-flowing powders. The art of mixing involves different dilution geometries (a geometry is a way of combining unequal amounts of fine powders to ensure an equal distribution).
The geometric mix used depends on the size distribution, shape, particle density, composition and internal structures. Other properties include flow ability, bulk density, mixture quality, dustiness and properties of segregation.
Industrial mixers are used to do the blending and mixing. The shape and hardness of the materials being mixed affects the horsepower required to run the mixer. The type of mixer used in a production line varies depending on the materials that need to be mixed or blended. Paddle mixers are often the best choice for production line mixing because they are easy to clean, have less surface area, and have a minimal number of parts.
Mixing and blending is generally a sub-process within an overall process cycle so when placing a mixer it is important to consider how it integrates into the whole system. That includes impacts to both upstream and downstream product handling.