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Organic synthesis goes golden
Working with dyes is asking for pretty pictures. While synthesising fluorescent tracers, Maarten van Meerbeek took this picture of a Cy5 dye.
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On the road: Exploring Biotech in Europe, part III
The European biotech scene is booming with innovative research going on in a wide variety of areas, ranging from food to energy.
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On the road: Exploring biotech in Europe, part II
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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On 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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Hey 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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DNA diamonds
You can create extraordinary photonic crystals out of ‘tetrapods’ using DNA origami with unprecedented precision.
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Jungle in a flask
With a little imagination, you can see a complete jungle in this picture, with large ferns and grass on the ground.
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Ghost of Mesosphere Present
Stratospheric discharges are not only beautiful, they are also the subject of research into what makes them so colourful.
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Blue bead parade
The audience award of the ChemistryViews 2023 Photo Competition went to this atmospheric image of blue calcium alginate ‘beads’.
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Picture perfect tubes
Maciej Majdecki won first prize in the ChemistryViews Photo Competition 2023 with this collection of beautifully coloured NMR tubes.
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Molecular jellyfish
Serendipity is a thread running through many extraordinary discoveries in the history of chemistry. These ‘molecular jellyfish’ are no exception.
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Iron embroidery
Source: Ludovic Troian-Gautier, C&EN Nature offers the most beautiful crystal structures. But beauty is certainly not absent from the lab, as shown by these iron(II) photosensitisers.
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Threads of beauty
Analytical polymer chemistry can be quite colourful, as shown in this X-ray diffraction pattern of a nylon fibre.
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About the birds and the genes
Chinese researchers show which gene in monkeyflowers has been altered so that the flowers no longer produce yellow pigment.
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Synthetic painting
Organic chemistry is not always exciting when it comes to using colour: white powders, colourless liquids. But it can also produce beautiful pictures.
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What does a brain ‘sound’ like?
We know ultrasounds as grainy grey pictures, but with the latest imaging techniques, they can look like this.
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Traitor macrophages light up
Floris van Dalen, PhD student at RadboudUMC, took this image of mouse macrophages acting as a model for TAMs.
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Chem 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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Light 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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‘Highest resolution ever’
With AFM, researchers at UCL get close to the reality of the surface of a bacterium.