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A collaboration between researchers from Eindhoven, Essen and New York is proposing a ‘molecular glue’ as a treatment for type 2 diabetes. The glue targets the ChREBPα protein involved in processing glucose and activating insulin production.
The Dutch government is drastically cutting the budgets for scientific research and education and, at the same time, plans to lure US-scientists to The Netherlands. Sjoerd Rijpkema struggles to make sense of it all.
For (young) children, swallowing large pills or capsules is difficult or even impossible. The Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium succeeded in developing a modified version of an existing Schistosomiasis drug that is also suitable for young children.
When a molecule is cryptochiral, it is particularly difficult to determine its stereochemistry. Using vibrational circular dichroism, a group from Groningen has managed to crack this tough problem, as they report in Chemistry A European Journal.
Two papers from a group in Amsterdam show insights in electrochemical pathways. ‘If you want to transfer these processes towards the industrial scale, you need to understand the pathway.’
Researchers at TU Eindhoven and the University of Cambridge have created an organic semiconductor in which electrons move in a spiral pattern. The light emitted could make OLED screens in televisions and smartphones much more energy efficient.
Everything, all at once - that would be a suitable tagline for SHINE, the brand-new TEM facility at AMOLF in Amsterdam. ‘Now we can study real-world materials in real-world conditions, both in space and time.’
Health and safety in the laboratory is an issue that most researchers give too little thought to, according to occupational hygienist Arco Engelen. During the LabSafety event on 20 May, he will not only point out the elephant in the room, but also provide tools for dealing with health and ...
Most scientific research will not win a Nobel Prize, writes columnist Sjoerd Rijpkema. Are we too attached to our boundaries?
Adding fluorine to drug molecules can be tricky, but is often worthwhile. Rachel Brazil talks to the chemists trying to tame the ninth element.