UK headquartered biopsy company, Angle has appointed Jan Groen as a non-executive director. Groen is currently president and CEO of MDxHealth, a Euronext listed molecular diagnostic company that develops tests for urological and other cancers.
Silica gels and zeolites are often used as adsorbents for heat pumps to reclaim waste energy, which can be re-used for heating and cooling buildings.
The sugar mannose can slow tumour growth and enhance cancer drugs, a new study reports. The sugar, which is available as a nutritional supplement, poisoned multiple cancers when fed to mice.
Because of its exceptionally wide applicability, quantum mechanics can now arguably be claimed to occupy pride of place in the current pantheon of physical theories.
The study of immunology began with the experiments of Edward Jenner in 1796. His observation that milkmaids who had been exposed to cowpox never contracted smallpox encouraged him to experiment with inoculation with pus from cowpox pustules.
Combining two achiral natural product (NP) fragments together, as in (3), can introduce chirality. In this case, the chromane (1) and tetrahydropyrimidinone (2) sections are each commonly found in larger structures that have a wide selection of types of bioactivity: antitumour, antibacterial, and central nervous system bioactivity in the case of chromanes, and antibiotic, carotinoid biosynthesis inhibition and antiproliferative effects for tetrahydropyrimidinones.
This year has seen a major shakeup in the global order for agrochemicals. Neil Eisberg asks if the trend is likely to continue?
With 64,000km of coastlines, Latin American and Caribbean governments are keen to curb plastic pollution.
Reducing the ecological impact of feeding the world means more mushrooms and less meat. Cath O’Driscoll finds out why