Name: Boosting Antibiotics With Essential Oils
Uploaded: 2017-07-23 00:00:00
Duration: 6 min 4 s
Description: The rise of multi-drug-resistant bacteria is a rapidly-growing global problem. Remmal's formula combines existing, standard antibiotics with the natural antimicrobial, anti-parasitic and anti-fungal properties found in indigenous plants, which helps prevent the spread of bacteria.

From inventions like a drug to fight Lupus to a sponge for massive oil spills, these inventors have changed our world.

Prior to the invention of this new test for malaria, only a time-consuming laboratory procedure – including a manual cell count by microscope by trained personnel and taking about 60 minutes – could detect malaria with certainty. Almost 3.2 billion people are at risk from malaria across the globe.

Rapid Blood Test For Malaria

Dutch molecular geneticist Hans Clevers developed the world's first "intestinoids" for testing drugs on active human intestinal tissue in 2009. Since then, he has adapted this technology for multiple additional human tissues, including liver, lung and pancreas.

Lab-grown Human Organs

OCT has become the standard of care in ophthalmology. This patented technology relies on light to create real-time, high-resolution images of human tissue in vivo for the diagnosis of blinding eye diseases, and deadly heart disease and cancer, avoiding the tissue removal necessary for biopsies.

High Resolution Video Imaging

Gruter and his team were the first to come up with an economically viable method for turning renewable plant-based sugars into bioplastics. PEF can replace aluminum, glass and the most commonly used polyester: PET, derived from petrochemicals. PEF' also has a lower carbon footprint.

Plastic Bottles Made From Plants

Developed by a former heart surgeon, the Organ Care System (OCS™), pioneered by TransMedics, Inc., is the only multi-organ platform world-wide that enables donor organs to remain in a near-physiological and functioning state outside the human body.

Sustaining Transplant Organs

Deurex's scientists are still trying to pin down the exact adsorptive properties of their "magic cotton", which was discovered by accident after a worker left on a wax-making machine overnight with incorrect temperature and pressure settings - but it can absorb oil from ocean oil spills.

Super-Sponge For Oil Spills

This technology helps ensure the high accuracy of GALILEO, the ESA GPS, while saving energy and assuring navigational compatibility with the US GPS and the Russian GLONASS worldwide GNSS systems. The team's developments also allow the use of legacy and lower- end receivers.

Spread-Spectrum Signals For European GPS Navigation

Spectral Band Replication (SBR) is a novel method for compressing digital audio files that has made it possible for millions of people around the world to enjoy either higher-quality sound or higher compression, easily and affordably. How does it work?

Spectral Band Replication (SBR) Improving Audio Compression

Air compressors are found in many industries: from large machines used in water treatment and manufacturing. They make up 10% of Europe's industrial electricity consumption. After a trial at a waste water treatment facility in the UK, the Blade Compressor showed electricity savings of over 20%.

The Blade Compressor: An Energy-saving Revolution In Air Compressor Technology

Swiss innovative all-rounder Elmar Mock is best known for his co-invention of the best-selling Swatch wristwatch, which revolutionized watchmaking. However, the inventor has gone on to found an entire "innovative factory" – Mock's company Creaholic – that churns out novel inventions by the hundreds.

Elmar Mock: Innovation That Ticks – Swatch Watch And Other Inventions

Muller's discovery may be the first "off switch" to stop lupus in its tracks. Instead of suppressing the immune system in its entirety – like most previous treatments – the drug she developed specifically targets so-called T-cells associated with lupus symptoms.

An "Off Switch" To Stop Lupus In Its Tracks

Rappuoli's vaccinations against diseases such as diphtheria, bacterial meningitis and whooping cough have been administered to millions as part of routine vaccination programs, practically eliminating these infections in the developed world.

Rino Rappuoli: The Father Of Modern-Day Vaccinations

The rise of multi-drug-resistant bacteria is a rapidly-growing global problem. Remmal's formula combines existing, standard antibiotics with the natural antimicrobial, anti-parasitic and anti-fungal properties found in indigenous plants, which helps prevent the spread of bacteria.

Boosting Antibiotics With Essential Oils

Before Remuzzi's discovery of ACE inhibitors to treat Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), kidney failure and lifelong dependence on dialysis were inevitable for many patients including those with certain organ transplantation.

New Hope For Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

German molecular biologist Axel Ullrich broadened the scientific understanding of the genetic causes of cancer and other diseases. He made history with the discovery of the HER2/neu oncogene responsible for gene-related breast cancer. Ullrich also developed the anti-cancer drug Herceptin.