Its compounds are used in photographic film and dilute silver nitrate solutions and other silver compounds are used as disinfectants and microbiocides. While many medical antimicrobial uses of silver have been supplanted by antibiotics, further research into clinical potential continues.
The Sans Institute is located in Bethesda, Maryland. This organization primarily operates in the Educational Research business / industry within the Engineering, Accounting, Research, and Management Services sector.
The plastics company run by former St. Louis Mayor Jim Conway is leaving its longtime home in the Central West End for a midtown location near Sigma-Aldrich Co. headquarters. ACI Plastics, a distributor and fabricator of plastic sheet products, is relocating from 3945 West Pine Boulevard, just west of St. Louis University, to 3001 Spruce Street. The company plans to complete the move this spring. Sigma-Aldrich is selling ACI its new facility, which is across Spruce from the Sigma-Aldrich HQ.