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Medical physics and biotechnology: highlights of 2021

Physics World

Alongside ongoing efforts to help detect , analyse and prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, 2021 has seen also the introduction of novel cancer treatments, advances in diagnostic imaging technology and innovative new biomedical devices. Here are just a few of the research highlights that caught my eye this year.

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Arnold & Porter's Environmental Litigation Practice Named 2022 'Law Firm of the Year' by Best Lawyers

Arnold Porter

Arnold & Porter's was also named "Law Firm of the Year" in the "Environmental Law" category in 2021. Biotechnology Law. Information Technology Law. Technology Law. Firms receiving "Law Firm of the Year" recognitions also have "an impressive overall performance" as reflected in the research conducted by Best Lawyers.

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Light-activated pacemaker is smaller than a grain of rice

Physics World

To minimize these risks, the researchers sought to develop a dissolvable pacemaker , which they introduced in Nature Biotechnology in 2021. Courtesy: John A Rogers/Northwestern University) The latest iteration of the device – reported in Nature – advances the technology further.

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DOE Issues RFI On Renewable Fuel Scale-Up And Demonstration

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On December 23, 2021, DOE issued a Request for Information (RFI) on the scale-up and demonstration of renewable fuels. DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) will use the information collected from this RFI to chart the potential growth of domestic renewable fuels production by 2030. Feedstock Production and Supply.

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DOE Announces Funding Focused On Reducing Aviation And Shipping Sector Emissions

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As part of a White House roundtable to launch the Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) Grand Challenge to decarbonize the aviation sector by 2050 , on September 9, 2021, the U.S. DOE aims to advance technologies to replace petroleum fuels used in heavy-duty forms of transportation, such as airplanes and ships.

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Developments in US Antitrust Litigation—2020 Year in Review

Arnold Porter

Those litigations, filed in late 2020, will likely continue into 2021 and beyond. and its subsidiary, AbbVie Biotechnology, Ltd. On April 7, 2020, the District of Delaware rejected DOJ's bid to block Sabre's acquisition of Farelogix, a travel technology company.[[N: Key Private Litigation. The complaint alleged that AbbVie Inc.

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Boost for Open Access in Asia as Frontiers and Taiwan’s NHRI seal deal

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One of Taiwan’s leading medical research institutions, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), and the open-access publisher Frontiers have today announced a publishing deal effective as of August 2021. Established in 1995, NHRI is one of Asia’s leading medical research and healthcare institutions.