Superconductivity: Researchers break 30-year old temperature record
US researchers have broken a thirty-year superconductivity record, creating a material that allows electricity to flow without resistance at the highest temperature ever achieved under normal pressure. The advance could eventually help create more efficient electrical grids, improved energy storage systems, faster electronics and new technologies for fusion energy and medical imaging.
Cell therapies: The future outlook
For years, the buzz surrounding cell therapies was one of investment and optimism - fuelled by scientific advances providing potential solutions for previously intractable diseases. Recently, the environment for advanced therapies has become more challenging.
AMR: Climate change and the threat of antimicrobial resistance
Climate change is fuelling a rise in antibiotic-resistant Salmonella, a new global study reports. It found that climate change was associated with a 10% global increase in Salmonella antibiotic resistance genes between 1940 and 2023.
Project to decode human ageing reaches major milestone
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet) has published its first wave of discoveries, highlighted by a cover commentary in the journal Cell led by Rong Fan, Harold Hodgkinson professor of biomedical engineering at Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science and of pathology at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), US, alongside researchers from nine other institutions.
Metamaterials boost heat transfer
Heat can be manipulated by using carefully engineered materials, according to US researchers. Impressive near-field radiative heat transfer was achieved between gold split-ring resonators patterned on silicon nitride membranes.
A magazine charting a ‘bold’ course: A look at the first issue of C&I
The first edition of Chemistry & Industry Review, as it was initially named, was published 103 years ago in January 1923.
Newly-identified protein may play a role in Parkinsons’ disease
A newly identified protein may play a major role in helping Parkinson’s disease (PD) spread through the brain. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, US, suggest that blocking this protein with monoclonal antibodies could eventually lead to treatments that slow the disease.
UK-France research alliance covers women's health, pandemic preparedness and pathogenic threats
A new research alliance between the UK and France aims to speed up research in areas including women’s health, pandemic preparedness, and surveillance of pathogenic threats.
More progress on replacing animal testing
Concerns regarding animal testing are being addressed on both sides of the Atlantic.
Understanding how polystyrene breaks down in waterways
Real environmental conditions make polystyrene (PS) tougher to break down than lab studies with purified water suggest. Salts and dissolved organic matter in natural water slow down the photooxidation and hinder microbial degradation. This is the finding from a 3-month study of sunlight-simulated breakdown of PS films in synthetic freshwater and synthetic seawater, as well as purified water.