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InternationalIntracellular antagonists against diseases
The winner of the MCCB PhD Thesis Award 2021 is Dr Natalia Ortiz-Zacarias. The jury found her research to be original, multidisciplinary and ground-breaking.
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InternationalThe two billion bold move that will lead us out of the covid pandemic
We spoke with Pfizer chief Marc Kaptein about the technology of the mRNA platform and the price of vaccines, among other things.
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InternationalVegan spider silk
Researchers have developed a sustainable and plant-based alternative material for disposable plastics, imitating the structure of spider silk with soya proteins.
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InternationalCrenarchaeol, a molecule of superlatives
Crenarchaeol is considered an ‘iconic molecule’ in organic geochemistry. Adri Minnaard’s PhD student Mira Holzheimer almost managed to synthesise it.
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InternationalAnalysing the Night Watch with top-notch chemistry
Katrien Keune uses complex, heterogeneous samples to try to better understand pieces of art. She is currently responsible for Operation Night Watch.
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InternationalConcentrated sunlight helps CO2 conversion
With plasmonic nanoparticles and somewhat concentrated sunlight, you can convert CO2 to CO much more efficiently without having to use high temperatures.
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InternationalWhy a PhD is not your only option
For many university students, it may seems like the only option: after your master’s you ‘must’ do a PhD, otherwise your chances on the labour market are limited. But nothing could be further from the truth, as four master’s graduates show.
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InternationalParadigm shift in organic chemistry
A paradigm in organic chemistry that has been in use since 1931 has turned out to be wrong, Amsterdam scientists found. It is not carbon s-p hybridisation, but steric repulsion that causes the variation of e.g. C-H bond lengths. ‘This discovery has been in the making for about twenty years.’
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InternationalCopper pyramids catalyse ethylene glycol production
Australian researchers have discovered that copper atoms in pyramid-like structures selectively convert CO and CO2 into ethylene glycol (C2H6O2).
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Artificial intelligence for photochemistry
The group of Shirin Faraji has developed a toolkit that drastically speeds up calculations on photochemical processes thanks to artificial intelligence.
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Bye bye Debye
For almost a century nobody wanted to burn their fingers on the Debye-Hückel theory. Now, Maarten Biesheuvel is putting a bomb under it.
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Artificial heart: where organs and robotics meet
A European research team from Amsterdam and Eindhoven is developing an artificial heart that ‘fuses’ with the human body.
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Electrochemical gardening
On a zinc disc-electrode, you can plant a micro-garden by corroding it in a sulfuric acid solution, without the need of a green thumb.
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InternationalLive visualisation of battle between cell and virus
With the new imaging technique VIRIM, you can follow the course of a virus infection in greater detail than ever before.
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Mobile replication machinery comes to a halt
Certain sequences on the genome can stop the motile start proteins of DNA replication.
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‘The chemical industry in the Netherlands wants to be a leader in sustainability’
Right before the Dutch elections, the VNCI together with the VNPI organised an election debate in January.