Researchers in Eindhoven have developed an artificial cell system that mimics the mutual communication of biological cells.
NADPH dehydrogenase can not only reduce but also oxidise by simply raising the pH, as researchers from Delft show in ChemCatChem.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the prediction of protein structure and folding.
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded for ‘fundamental discoveries and innovations that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks’.
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
Researchers from the Rijksmuseum, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Antwerp, came across unusual arsenic sulfide pigments that Rembrandt, among others, used to create strikingly shiny details in his work.
Using a simple autocatalytic reaction, researchers have programmed a chemical reaction network that has memory and performs logical functions.
Using a combination of heat and light, symmetric σ-bonds can be broken asymmetrically, German researchers show in Nature.
Turning soft beaches into hard rock. American researchers managed this (at least on lab scale) by exposing sea-soaked sand to a mild electric current.
Modifications to the degassing process have enabled Ineos Styrolution Antwerp to increase the purity of its food-grade high-impact polystyrene.
The TheoCheM group from VU Amsterdam is now offering a course to get chemists from various disciplines up to (computational) speed in just five days.
The new symposium Bridging Bonds will uncover the collaboration potential of soft matter and macromolecules. Here we highlight speaker Matt Baker, associate professor at Maastricht University.
By fusing two commonly used monomers into a new monomer, you can combine their best properties, a Leuven team shows in ChemSusChem.
The Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded again last night, and Dutch scientists from Amsterdam won the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
A team from Leiden has developed an extremely potent antibiotic against Gram-positive bacteria, including drug resistant strains.
By studying the infection of lung organoids, Swiss researchers revealed how a notorious pathogen deploys a Trojan horse-stategy.
For two weeks, a hand-held Laser Speckle Imaging device analysed The Night Watch from just a few centimetres away.
Throughout Europe, 494 researchers will receive a €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant. Among the laureates we spotted members from KNCV, NBV and NVBMB.
An international team has developed a synthetic strategy to make NCF3, SCF3 and OCF3 anions for drugs with far fewer PFAS-generating steps.
The natural building block α-lipoic acid can be used to make polymers that behave like superglue and are easy to depolymerise locally.