News – Pagina 6
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InternationalBiochemical alchemy, greasy proteins and quantum molecules: Vidi grants have been announced
A variety of molecular science project can take off thanks to an NWO Vidi grant. Ranging from CO2 fixation and supramolecular materials capable of learning to AI and sweet molecules.
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InternationalClumping pests
A team from Umeå University in Sweden has been studying how bacteria pass on their resistance genes to each other, resulting in a beautiful picture.
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InternationalKNCV Gold Medal 2024 awarded to Caroline Paul
Jury praises her pioneering and creative research on biocatalysis, which opens new technological routes towards sustainable chemical production.
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InternationalArtificial cell communication: protein on demand
Researchers in Eindhoven have developed an artificial cell system that mimics the mutual communication of biological cells.
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InternationalReducing enzyme can also oxidise
NADPH dehydrogenase can not only reduce but also oxidise by simply raising the pH, as researchers from Delft show in ChemCatChem.
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InternationalNobel Prize in Chemistry goes to protein folding computer
Source: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach Left to right: David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the prediction of protein structure and folding.
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InternationalNobel Prize in physics goes to machine learning
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded for ‘fundamental discoveries and innovations that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks’.
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InternationalNobel Prize in Physiology for microRNA discovery
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.
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InternationalNot all that glitters is gold
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.
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InternationalProgramming molecular memory
Using a simple autocatalytic reaction, researchers have programmed a chemical reaction network that has memory and performs logical functions.
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International(Not) sharing is caring
Using a combination of heat and light, symmetric σ-bonds can be broken asymmetrically, German researchers show in Nature.
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InternationalZapping sand
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.
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InternationalCleaner polystyrene thanks to improved degassing
Modifications to the degassing process have enabled Ineos Styrolution Antwerp to increase the purity of its food-grade high-impact polystyrene.
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InternationalCrash course in computational chemistry
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.
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InternationalBridging Bonds Speaker Highlight: Matt Baker (Maastricht)
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.
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InternationalThe best of both monomers
By fusing two commonly used monomers into a new monomer, you can combine their best properties, a Leuven team shows in ChemSusChem.
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InternationalIg Nobel prize for drunken worms
The Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded again last night, and Dutch scientists from Amsterdam won the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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InternationalNew ‘super antibiotic’ overcomes resistance
A team from Leiden has developed an extremely potent antibiotic against Gram-positive bacteria, including drug resistant strains.
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InternationalSmart intruders
By studying the infection of lung organoids, Swiss researchers revealed how a notorious pathogen deploys a Trojan horse-stategy.
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InternationalA closer look at The Night Watch
For two weeks, a hand-held Laser Speckle Imaging device analysed The Night Watch from just a few centimetres away.