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An exciting new centre for translation biomedicine in Shanghai promises to turbocharge the process of getting treatments from the bench to the bedside.
Government-funded research is working to replace food packaging and aquaculture tools with recyclable or biodegradable bioplastics produced using plant matter and bacteria.
The transfer of genes that allow nitrogen to be fixed from the atmosphere into photosynthesizing cyanobacteria could one day lead to similarly engineered crops.
The path to a green society could be boosted by increasing the productivity of agricultural crops that are providing cellulose to make environmentally friendly bioplastics.
Byproducts from Japan’s sugar beet crop are being turned into long strands of cellulose by bacteria — offering up new material for bioplastics that could help solve global pollution woes.
A study of how antibodies respond to NEW SARS-COV-2 VARIANTS has resulted in a vaccine that could be delivered as droplets into the nose, potentially stopping the virus getting a foothold in the respiratory tract.
Overcoming Asia’s major lifestyle-related killers — hypertension and stroke — is a complex task that requires cutting salt from diets. Could alternative flavour enhancers, such as umami, or nutritional profiling systems, be part of the solution?
For drug discovery labs, finding the right informatics tools is more important than ever as medicinal chemists look to maximize ‘scientific quality time’.
Thermal cyclers are the workhorses of modern PCR, yet many suffer from imprecise temperature control. More reliable devices will improve experimental outcomes and reproducibility.