On both sides of the Atlantic, political concerns are uppermost in the minds of researchers and product developers, particularly those in the pharmaceutical sector. In the US, the concerns centre on cuts to the governmental funding of science, while in the UK, the focus is on Brexit and all that it entails - from the future of the European Medicines Centre in London to future EU Horizon research funding.
European contract pharma development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), 3P Biopharmaceuticals has signed a collaboration agreement with Australian biotech Ondek for the production of an immunotherapy based on the Helicobacter pylori organism.
Bridges, planes and ships are all liable to weaken and degrade over time. But green laser light could detect structural damage far earlier than other non-destructive testing (NDT) methods. According to researchers speaking at the ACS meeting in San Francisco in April. It could warn of danger sooner.
Scientists have hit on a way to ‘bottle’ the energy in sunlight and store it for later use, they reported at the ACS meeting in San Francisco. The ‘bionic leaf’ technology uses bacteria, sunlight, water and air to make fertiliser directly in the soil where crops are grown, and could allow crops to grow and flourish at low light levels – or even in the dark.
Lifelong sailor James Holm admits he was literally moved to tears a few years ago when he saw the extent of the plastic pollution on a remote island off the coast of Panama. Now, Holm and chemist Swaminathan Ramesh of EcoFuel Technologies have joined forces to develop a solution to the problem – a mobile technology to transform plastic waste to produce hydrocarbon fuel.
‘Today we build things from plastics and polymers and wood and silicon, but one day we could be building them from living cells,’ said Rashid Bashir, professor of bioengineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, speaking at AAAS meeting in Boston in February.
So much has been going on in the US politically in the past few weeks that it's difficult to know where to start. The high profile failure of Trump's healthcare bill, which left Obamacare in place, and the headline-making rollback of Obama's signature climate change legislation, have somewhat overshadowed the threats to science.
Air pollution is causing premature deaths across India, with the latter now rivalling China. The two Asian giants account for more than half of all global deaths related to PM2.5 (fine particulate matter) exposure – particles of less than 2.5 micrometres.
Wikipedia states that a ‘trade mission is an international trip by government officials and business people that is organised by agencies of national or provincial governments for the purpose of exploring international business opportunities’. Business people who attend trade missions are typically introduced both to important business contacts and to well-placed government officials. A trade mission is a way in which countries or organisations can seek out potential buyers and sellers, usually after significant market research.
Polarity analysis in the process of planning organic synthesis is possibly one of it’s simplest tools to master. It relies on identifying centres with nucleophilic (negative) and electrophilc (positive) reactivity, relative to a functional group of interest. G. Richard Stephenson University of East Anglia, Norwich