Highlights 2010

January - March

• New Bionanoscience Department (BN) starts officially; Bionanoscience is a field of research that has emerged at the interface of biology and nanotechnology.
• Minister Van der Hoeven (Economic Affairs) lays the first ecological brick of the new BE-Basic consortium (BT) in The Hague and the consortium partners sign a cooperation agreement.
• B-BASIC (BT) improves production of biochemicals and biofuels from wood through a bacterium that breaks down harmful by-products.
• Reactor Institute Delft (RID) offers to serve as a back-up facility for medical isotope production.
• The R3 Department and RID work on a new procedure with Y-90 radioembolisation to treat liver cancer because these tumours cannot be removed by surgical means and chemotherapy is often insufficient. 

April – June

• BE-Basic pilot facility (BT) will enable companies and knowledge institutions worldwide to test whether their ideas for a sustainable economy are possible.
• Biotechnology’s sewage water energy research (BT) published in Science.
• Cooperation Agreement of BT and Partners of ENS Europe formalizes the cooperation on 2 TU Delft patents; the fine dust reduction system and ammonium catching system.
• NWO-researcher Frank Koopman (BT) makes revolutionar bio-based bond that can replace one of the main raw materials for plastic products.
• New software of Bernd Rieger (IST) creates much sharper images in biomedical research. 
• Jelmer Vellema (MSP) solves medication problem of the regular blockages that occur in intravenous drips when administering the sedative lorazepam for the HagaZiekenhuis.
• R3 and MI Labs merge PET and SPECT biomedical imaging techniques and increase resolution. 

July – September

• Cees Dekker and colleagues (BN) announce a new type of graphene nanopore devices that may significantly impact the way we screen DNA molecules, for example to read off their sequence. 
• David Grünwald (BN) and Robert Singer of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine show in Nature how molecules escape from a cell nucleus.
• Increased production of petrol from vegetable oil with new (ChemE) invention.
• Gijs de Lange, Diego Ristè en Ronald Hanson (QN) and Ames Lab in the USA succeed to fully protect the spin state of a single electron from its environment.   
• The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport gives permission to RID as back-up facility for the production of medical isotope when supplies run out.

  October - December

• Jan Lipfert and Nynke Dekker (BN) develop a new method to measure resistance in the replicating and repair process ‘Rotation of DNA’.      
• Francesco Pedaci and Nynke Dekker (BN) show that certain physical properties of rotating microscopic cylinders resemble those of communicating neurons.http://www.tnw.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=1171c852-7916-4d04-a4a9-cdecd2883e3e&lang=en
• Cees Dekker (BN) and researchers of the Oxford University report in Nature on a novel method that combines man-made and biological materials to result in a tiny hole on a chip, which is able to measure and analyze single DNA molecules.
• Geert van der Kraan (BT) concludes that the ups and downs of the bacteria in an oil field provide a usefull source of information for keeping tabs on the state of the oil field itself.
• Biological wastewater treatment can be reduced by seventy-five percent and can also be twenty-five percent more economical, thanks to the aerobic granular sludge technology Nereda (BT).
• Jean-Paul Meijnen (BT) 'trains' bacteria to convert all the main sugars in vegetable, fruit and garden waste efficiently into high-quality environmentally friendly products such as bioplastics.
• Doctor Honoris Causa ETH Zurich for Mark van Loosdrecht (BT).
•  LST-students (BT) reach final i-GEM competition as one of the world’s six best teams at MIT.
• Adapted MRI-Scan gives better overview of changes in the brain, promotion of Matthan Caan (IST) was given much publicity.
• Researchers from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience (QN) and Eindhoven University of Technology succeed in controlling the building blocks of a future super-fast quantum computer.
• QN and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter have drawn a design for the smallest electro-motor ever, consisting of a single molecule with a motor powered by an electrical field.

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