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New approach uses light to transform lignin into sustainable plastics

Lignin is arguably the most abundant component of biomass that most people have never heard of. That may be about to change.

22 Feb 2023

Novel mechanism of DNA repair occurring in neurons uncovered

"Use it or lose it" goes the adage, applied liberally to everything from our muscles to our minds, especially as we age.

16 Feb 2023

Brooks Instrument announces new certifications available for its SLA Series of mass flow controllers

Brooks Instrument, a world leader in advanced flow, pressure and vapor delivery solutions, has released three new certifications available for its SLA Series and SLA Series Biotech mass flow controllers (MFCs) and meters, adding to its wide offering of product documentation.

From Brooks Instrument 3 Feb 2023

Researchers develop a sustainable two-step process to upcycle organic carbon waste

When nature designed lignin -; the fibrous, woody material that gives plants their rigid structure -; it didn't cut any corners. Incredibly slow to break down, lignin is so sturdy and long lasting that it is resistant to bacteria and rot.

1 Feb 2023

Researchers split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen

Researchers have successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen.

1 Feb 2023

Actin serves as catalyst for shaping the cells

In a recent study, scientists from the University of Maryland have explained how actin, a protein, plays a key role in giving cells their shape.

8 Nov 2022

New consortium for scaled up meat produced from cultivated cells

Competition promotes innovation, but for a nascent industry, one strategy is for competitors to band together to tackle fundamental technical obstacles, set standards, and exchange knowledge in a way that benefits the industry as a whole.

20 Oct 2022

Crucial steps taken to produce sustainable chemicals in living microfactories

Professor Stefan Mecking from the University of Konstanz’s Department of Chemistry and Doctoral Candidate Natalie Schunck have now discovered a means to significantly increase the efficiency of the process of upgrading sustainable raw materials.

30 Sep 2022

Study finds a nutrition-based solution to restore milk production during warm weather

Rising temperatures pose major challenges to the dairy industry – a Holstein's milk production can decline 30 to 70% in warm weather – but a new Cornell University-led study has found a nutrition-based solution to restore milk production during heat-stress events, while also pinpointing the cause of the decline.

8 Aug 2022

Producing food without sunlight through artificial photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is the process that enables plants to take sunlight and carbon dioxide and convert it into chemical energy to grow.

29 Jun 2022

Research sheds light on innovative techniques to improve drugs for diseases

In a paper that was just published in Science, scientists from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab explain how they were able to enhance a protein’s capacity to repair oxidative DNA damage while also giving the protein a new role.

27 Jun 2022

Researchers discover a unique origin of severe pediatric brain cancer

A new cause of severe childhood brain cancer has been discovered by scientists.

25 Apr 2022

Max Planck researchers reveal the structure of kinetochore corona

During cell division in a mother cell, the 23 chromosomes that carry the human genome must be first copied and later delivered to two newly forming daughter cells.

From The Max Planck Institute 11 Apr 2022

Gut viruses contribute to human health, but provoke inflammation when perturbed

Research in recent years has demonstrated the diverse roles that gut bacteria can play in health and disease, but what about contributions from viruses, which, like bacteria, perpetually reside within the human intestine?

11 Apr 2022

Breakthrough discovery provides a desirable drug target to tackle metabolic diseases

In a breakthrough discovery, scientists from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio today reported that inhibiting a liver enzyme in obese mice decreased the rodents' appetite, increased energy expenditure in adipose (fat) tissues and resulted in weight loss.

6 Apr 2022

Interactions of marine microbes and minerals may have led to oxygen build up in the atmosphere

For the first 2 billion years of Earth's history, there was barely any oxygen in the air. While some microbes were photosynthesizing by the latter part of this period, oxygen had not yet accumulated at levels that would impact the global biosphere.

15 Mar 2022

NTU Singapore scientists design new method to generate sulfur pharmacophores

A key technical challenge in creating new sulfur-based medicines has been overcome by scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, leading to the prospect of many new therapeutic 'weapons' in the fight against disease and illness.

15 Feb 2022

"Heavy" hydrogen makes drugs to have a longer effect

Hydrogen (abbreviated "H") is the lightest of all elements. It usually consists only of a positively charged proton and a negatively charged electron and is also called protium in this form. But there are also two heavier hydrogen isotopes, deuterium and tritium.

24 Dec 2021

Unraveling how DNAzymes work in real time

DNAzymes are precision biocatalysts that destroy unwanted RNA molecules. However, major obstacles to their use in medicine remain.

23 Dec 2021

iVention joins the Tetra Partner network to meet customer demand for data-engineered scientific workflows

TetraScience, the R&D Data Cloud company, announced today that iVention, maker of a powerful Laboratory Execution System, has joined the Tetra Partner Network to meet customer requirements that all of their scientific data be engineered, liquid, and actionable so that they can accelerate delivery of life-saving medicines.

From TetraScience, Inc. 8 Dec 2021