Biology – Page 64
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ResearchUrine-fuelled distress signal
Origami device that broadcasts on emergency power could find use in remote locations
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Business
Mallinckrodt to buy Ikaria to expand in US hospitals
$2.3bn deal brings nitric oxide ventilator system for newborns with respiratory failure
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PodcastChemistry World podcast – March 2015
How cephalopods teach chemists about camouflage, and new ways to convert carbon dioxide into useful materials
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ResearchComputational chemists unpick adenine–thymine bias
Quantum insights into mechanisms behind tautomer-driven DNA evolution
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ResearchProgram ready to weed out tough drug leads
Model could help drug firms avoid synthetically complex dead ends and speed drug discovery
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Business
J&J to sell cardiac devices to wholesaler Cardinal
Commodity technology no longer fits with company’s focus on growth and innovation
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FeatureLearning from the masters
By unpicking how cephalopods change their looks to match their environment, researchers are aiming to reverse-engineer a host of novel materials. Emma Davies reports
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ResearchPetrified beetles
Carbonisation provides path for microstructure preservation in biological specimens
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FeatureThe enzyme hunters
Novozymes is scouring the world for enzymes that make industrial processes more sustainable, as Mark Peplow discovers
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ResearchEngineered bacteria synthesise palladium biosorbent
Biomolecule to help decontaminate water by recovering palladium that has escaped from catalytic converters
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FeatureFrom screen to cell
Nina Notman finds out how liquid crystals are moving into the biotechnology and pharmaceutical toolbox
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ResearchGoogle Glass to monitor plant health
Researchers measure plant chlorophyll using leaf images
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Business
US approves internal tissue glue
Urethane-based TissuGlu aids healing after abdominal surgery
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ResearchGM bacteria convert solar energy to liquid fuels
Single-vessel system uses the products of water-splitting to make fuel alcohols
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ResearchEnzyme uses internal network for cyclisation
Researchers have pinpointed individual amino acid residues involved in the production of cyclic terpenes by a plant enzyme
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Research‘Early RNA’ reactions characterised
Enzyme-free linking of nucleotides suggests possible route for the synthesis of ancient RNA
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ResearchExploiting the chirality of DNA
DNA covalently bound to cellulose offers new perspectives in asymmetric catalysis
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ResearchPhotosynthesis takes the high road
Study aims for definitive answer to oxidation state questions in biological water splitting
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