membrane engineering: future perspectives

Membrane Engineering: Future Perspectives

Future perspectives in tissue engineering: ‘Tissue Engineering’ Review Series

Dr. Charles Vacanti can be considered to be some of the "Stem cells of tissue engineering", as it has been put once by Dr. Peter Johnson, the former president of the Tissue Engineering Society International. They made some of the seminal observations that have enabled many people worldwide to develop many types of tissues. A world-renowned leader in tissue engineering, Dr. Charles A. Vacanti is...

Probabilistic design: The future of rock engineering

A brief background to the development of the rock engineering design process is given, showing that since the development of the science of mathematics, deterministic methods have been used to perform various calculations. The variability of rock properties and support characteristics have always been known. However, they were not explicitly used in design but compensated for by the use of a sa...

Progress of Membrane Engineering for Water Treatment

Together with the supply of energy and the environmental protection, fresh water is one of the three keys elements for the sustainable development of every society. Where the availability of water cannot be carried out by using conventional sources, unavoidable appears the resort of the major water source: the sea. Today, RO is one the most used membrane processes for the production of fresh wa...

Membrane Engineering for Today and for Tomorrow

Down Syndrome: Current Status, Challenges and Future Perspectives

Down syndrome (DS) is a birth defect with huge medical and social costs, caused by trisomy of whole or part of chromosome 21. It is the most prevalent genetic disease worldwide and the common genetic cause of intellectual disabilities appearing in about 1 in 400-1500 newborns. Although the syndrome had been described thousands of years before, it was named after John Langdon Down who described ...