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Photoactivated enzymatic oxygen transfer

May 27, 2020
Researchers at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and Pavia (Italy) have now identified an enzyme which becomes catalytically active when exposed to blue light and which immediately triggers a reaction...

Biohybrid organic battery combines nanocomposite and bacteria

May 26, 2020
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a programmable, biohybrid material system combining nanocomposite and bacteria for power generation.

The renaissance of supercritical fluid chromatography

May 10, 2020
Early development of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) was described as high-pressure or dense gas chromatography (HPGC or DGC) and low boiling point hydrocarbons were used as the supercritical mobile phase....

Largest Synthetic Polysaccharide Assembled

April 29, 2020
Chemists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany) have set a milestone by preparing the two largest carbohydrates ever assembled. Using an Automated Glycan Assembly (AGA)...

A bad acid trip

October 21, 2019
Ocean acidifcation, the lesser known relative of global warming, causes particular damage to coral reefs. Christopher Cornwall and Steeve Comeau take us through the algal 'glue' at the heart of...

Law and disorder

September 23, 2019
We have been working on Alzheimer's for a long time… so where are all the therapeutic drugs? Here Dr Sean Devenish looks at the biggest challenge for developing an effective...

Win: Bloom

September 17, 2019
From food to fuel, fertiliser and plastic production, Kassinger charts the applications of algae and meets the algae innovators working towards a more sustainable future.

Ancient yeast leavens bread

August 7, 2019
A 4,500-year-old strain of yeast sampled from ancient Egyptian pottery has been used to bake bread.

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