Articles tagged with "Chemistry"

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Understanding battleground earth

November 8, 2018
Falk Hildebrand takes through the first global study of the soil microbiome. This incredible international effort uncovered worrying human impact, antibiotic production and one hell of a microbial battle. You’ll...

The new ice age

October 22, 2018
Cryo-storage is a multibillion-dollar industry, but surprisingly we are not very good at it. Here, Alice Fayter and Matthew Gibson talk extremophiles, ice and a new generation of biological cold...

Chemical safety project advances

October 9, 2018
An alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences has announcing a number of advances its Chemical Safety Library Service.The project, run by the Pistoia Alliance, captures,...

The chips are down

October 9, 2018
Is it really possible to recreate a human on a chip? That is the ultimate aim of organ on a chip technology and we are getting closer. Here we explore...

A light touch

September 28, 2018
Researchers at the European Graphene Flagship have designed a molecule that can reversibly undergo chemical transformations when illuminated with light. This molecule – a photoswitchable spiropyran– can be anchored to...

Anti-bac polymers created with light

September 24, 2018
Hundreds of polymers – which could kill drug-resistant superbugs in novel ways – can be produced and tested using light according to a team from the University of Warwick.Researchers from...

Seeing the whole picture

September 4, 2018
What makes one patient different from another one? Answering this question is a fundamental prerequisite for personalised medicine – and a multi-omic approach is the only way to get there...

The making of a molecular movie

August 17, 2018
A team of physicists from the US and Europe has captured the clearest glimpse yet of a photochemical reaction. The researchers precisely recorded how the atomic nuclei and chemical bonds...

Climbing Mt Peer Review: No shame in second place

August 16, 2018
In the final of our three part special on the changing attitudes and approaches of publishers, reviewers and scientists to  scientific publishing, Maiko Kitaoka tells us that nothing less than...

Climbing Mt Peer Review: time to go clubbing?

July 30, 2018
In the first of our three-part series on the changing attitudes and approaches of publishers, reviewers and scientists toward scientific publishing we look at online preprints and journal clubs Assessing...

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