International – Pagina 9
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InternationalOn the road: Exploring biotech in Europe, part I
The European biotech scene is booming, with innovative research going on in a wide variety of areas, ranging from food to materials to pharma to energy.
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InternationalStronger under pressure: new synthetic bond
Researchers in Wageningen have become the first to create catch bonds in the laboratory, which become stronger when force is applied to them.
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InternationalThe specs of PECs unravelled
A team of scientists from Twente was able to solve a hundred-year-old riddle concerning the formation of polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) with NMR.
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InternationalAntimalarial drug decreases testosterone production in ovaries
Chinese researchers describe how an antimalarial drug inhibits the excess production of ‘male’ hormones, which is a hallmark symptom of PCOS.
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InternationalChoosing the right PhD supervisors: a make-or-break decision
Isabelle Kohler gives you tips for choosing a PhD supervisor, emphasizing the importance of a good fit for a successful PhD and career.
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InternationalPolymer waste electrochemically recycled
Electrochemical recycling, made with AI Electrochemistry may be an underexplored option for recycling plastic waste, researchers show in a review in Chemical Science.
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InternationalHey Google, what does a brain look like?
A team from Google Research and Harvard University has published the largest ever dataset of neural connections in a fragment of the human brain.
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InternationalCheap and sustainable cross-coupling photocatalyst
Graphitic carbon nitride is able to replace iridium as a photocatalyst in cross coupling reactions, greatly reducing cost and carbon footprint.
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InternationalFungi everywhere
Fungal materials seem to be everywhere in our lives and their applications seem limitless. But there are also fundamental questions that have yet to be answered.
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InternationalSize matters: how optical DOSY helps your chemical analysis
InspectT has developed a size-determining chip that can be easily integrated into an IR or UV/Vis spectrometer.
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InternationalSustainable and healthy potato starch
Royal Avebe is collaborating with CarbExplore Research and the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG) to develop new healthy starch varieties.
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InternationalCreating a healthier academic environment for all
Isabelle calls for a shift in the academic mindset and emphasizes the need for structural changes to ensure the well-being of academic professionals.
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International‘If you want to apply a technology, you need to fully understand it’
Making molecules with bacteria and electrochemistry, that’s what drives Ludovic Jourdin in a nutshell. This relatively new field is developing quickly and has much to offer.
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InternationalMaking biosurfactants mainstream
Ghent-based start-up AmphiStar is one of the first in the world to produce biosurfactants using a yeast that derives its nutrients entirely from biological waste streams.
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InternationalQuartz: invisible interface, incredibly important
With its high-quality quartz materials for cuvettes and laboratory probes, HELLMA Analytics enables researchers to perform extremely precise optical spectroscopy measurements.
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InternationalFully recyclable silicone elastomers
Researchers from Ghent have developed a scalable method to make silicone elastomers fully recyclable.
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InternationalFrancqui Prize for Veronique Van Speybroeck
Veronique Van Speybroeck will be awarded the 2024 Francqui Prize for Exact Sciences for her pioneering computational work on catalysts.
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InternationalMetal-free MOF makes imines
Pyrene-based covalent organic frameworks and blue light can be used to make imines in an environmentally friendly way.
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InternationalProtein gear gives flagella two rotation directions
Bacteria swim with flagella, and a clever switching system allows them to aim at a target. New research shows how the flagellar drive changes direction.
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InternationalDNA diamonds
You can create extraordinary photonic crystals out of ‘tetrapods’ using DNA origami with unprecedented precision.