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A Japan-Spain team has developed a powerful 4-color simultaneous camera named MuSCAT2 for the 1.52-m Telescopio Carlos Sánchez at the Teide Observatory, Canaries, Spain. The instrument aims to find a large number of transiting exoplanets, including Earth-like habitable planets orbiting stars near the Sun, in collaboration with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched in April 2018.

A development team of Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed a suction device which can automatically suck up intracellular substances. The device sucks up the target substances from the specific locations of the objective cells, which had been selected based on user-defined conditions beforehand, to analyze by mass spectroscopy. This technology will be able to put Single-cell mass spectroscopy analysis into practical use.

The Children's Tumor Foundation, together with the Neurofibromatosis Therapeutic Acceleration Program and Sage Bionetworks, has announced the first-ever open data portal for scientific research results in the field of neurofibromatosis (NF). The NF Data Portal marks the major first milestone in all three organizations' commitment to the development of the larger NF Open Science Initiative (NF-OSI), which draws experts from across research disciplines and disease areas in order to develop treatments for NF.

Pittsburgh-based PPG said Thursday that it had signed a non-exclusive patent license agreement with the Naval Air Warfare Center's Aircraft Division.

Autonomous and interactive robotic seafloor mapping systems were used on an expedition aboard research vessel Falkor in the southern Gulf of California, leading scientists to a new hydrothermal vent field and enabling the discovery of new deep-sea organisms.