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InternationalChem brûlée
Most mixtures that chemists create in the lab may not always look special or appetising. But every once in a while, you would be tempted to take a bite of your product.
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International‘Your datasets hold their value longer than your publications’
Unleash artificial intelligence on old measurement results and you won’t believe what it adds to your knowledge, Lennart Martens promises.
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InternationalSafely synthesising with CO
With a dual-chamber system, you can use carbon monoxide to install a carbonyl group during synthesis in a relatively safe way.
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InternationalRadiochemist Erik de Blois pioneers with a radioactive medicine
Radiochemist Erik de Blois did not shy away from the great technical challenges of working with an α-emitter in a clinical environment under GMP conditions, resulting in the first phase 1 study with a radioactive medicine. ‘I have a practical mind.’
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InternationalPFAS causes borderless problems
The PFOS scandal in Flanders reaches as far as the Netherlands, as Zeelanders are now being advised not to eat fish from the river Westerschelde
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International’Infectious diseases are a global problem and you have to make global policy on them’
She has achieved a great deal at a young age, but professor of vaccinology and malaria expert Meta Roestenberg is never ‘finished’.
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International‘High quality phosphate production and less trouble from phosphate waste is a win-win’ says SusPhos
SusPhos was crowned Frisian Start-up of the Year 2021 in September. How will the chemistry of SusPhos contribute to a better world?
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InternationalBucky balls in space
Researchers from the Leiden Observatory mimic chemical reactions that take place in space in the Laboratory for Astrophysics
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InternationalAncient proteins tell stories of our ancestors
Minute remains of ancient potsherds turn out to be a source of information about daily life thousands of years ago.
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InternationalNon-target screening: the art of looking at everything
KWR Water Research Institute uses state-of-the-art high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) to simultaneously examine as many substances as possible.
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InternationalSafe tattoo ink hurts (entrepreneurs) a lot
Dutch tattoo parlours are currently desperate for REACH-compliant tattoo ink. Since 4 January, their old ink inventory has become unusable, and the alternative is still a long way off.
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International‘Don’t forget that plastic also contributes to a more sustainable world’
Since October 2021 Gijs Langeveld is behind the wheel at the Polymer Science Park. How does he see the future of the PSP under his leadership?
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InternationalNew more dangerous HIV variant discovered in the Netherlands
A variant of the HIV-1 subtype-B that is more infectious and virulent than previously known variants has been circulating in the Netherlands for twenty years.
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International‘Many basic aspects of chemistry come together in glycochemistry’
Besides her efforts in outreach, inclusivity, diversity and helping early-stage researchers, Marthe Walvoort is building a career based on sugars.
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InternationalQuantum effects in biology: a load of rubbish or the only explanation?
Entanglement, tunnelling and coherence may also do their work in the warm, messy environment of the biological cell.
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International‘We did not expect to see this within our scientific career’
Science and Nature consider the prediction of protein folding with artificial intelligence to be the scientific breakthrough of 2021.
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InternationalCatalyst model overhauled
Oxidised metals also appear to be able to take on an active role as catalysts for CO2 conversion, contrary to what scientists had previously thought.
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InternationalSynvenio – Connecting chemistry and biology
Synvenio developed a platform to make chemical methods accessible to researchers with limited chemical knowledge.
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InternationalLight at the end of the tunnel
Everyone’s bowels are different. One person’s gut reacts violently to certain foods or medications, while another’s doesn’t suffer at all.
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InternationalSobhan Neyrizi – Turning carbondioxide into fuel
The air is full of CO2. How nice would it be if we could turn that into fuel?