Canadian biopharma services company Altasciences has appointed Lynne LeSauteur as VP, immunochemistry and immunology. LeSauteur, who joins the company from the Human Health Therapeutics Research Center at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), will be responsible for the bioanalytical services department in the US and the ligand binding team in Canada.
In surprisingly relaxed tones, 11 contemporary scientists, all of them leading lights in their fields, provide a lay readership with insight into their research. They not only summarise progress to date but also identify problems yet to be solved and suggest possible ways to tackle them. Although several different areas of science are covered most of the discussion is centred on the biological sciences. All the contributing scientists have had their work recognised by a variety of awards – four are Nobel prize-winners.
When reviewing this book by Geoff Dixon, it struck me that SCI has the strapline: ‘Where science meets business’, and this book could very well be titled, ‘Where science meets the business of gardening’.
The annual seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign (SMC) spearheaded by the Malaria Consortium has begun with a target of reaching 5.5m children in Nigeria, Chad and Burkina Faso who are at risk of contracting or succumbing to the disease.
Any mobile electronic device – from a phone to an environmental sensor – requires a power supply. And while modern batteries are sophisticated, they are not infallible. Who, for instance, can say that their phone has never died on them?
China’s ban on waste imports has helped to throw Europe’s paper recycling sector into crisis, according to the trade group European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC). A chronic oversupply of recovered paper has sent prices plummeting over the past two years.
A new process to transform waste into an amino acid called citrulline – found in fruits such as watermelons – could lead to more sustainable nitrogen-rich fertilisers, according to researchers in Australia.
China’s ban on waste imports has helped to throw Europe’s paper recycling sector into crisis, according to the trade group European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC). A chronic oversupply of recovered paper has sent prices plummeting over the past two years.
One hundred and fifty years ago, the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev proposed a ‘system of elements’ ordering the known chemical elements according to their atomic weights and chemical properties.
Contamination of global waterways by household chemicals and pharmaceuticals is attracting increasing scrutiny from environmental regulators. But researchers involved in an ongoing European ‘Sullied Sediments’ project claim to have discovered a novel way of cleaning up water – by exploiting Nature’s pollens and spores.