Blaise Pascal contested the idea that nature abhors a vacuum and is the answer to Guess the Chemist (8)
350th Anniversary: Blaise Pascal's Death
Towards Edible Crop Seeds
Identification of glucosinolate transporters might facilitate the production of edible crop seeds
Commercial Bio-based Acrylic Acid Process
BASF, Cargill and Novozymes jointly develop industrial biotechnology-based production process for acrylic acid from renewable raw materials
Non-enzymatic Pd Recovery
(Bio)Materials rich in amine groups are proposed as an ideal support for recovering Pd from waste
Bayer Prepares for Farming`s Future
Bayer CropScience completes acquisition of AgraQuest, a global supplier of innovative biological pest management solutions
Live Tagged
Sialic acid analog tagged with a fluorescent moiety could find application in live cell imaging according to Japanese researchers
Imaging Renal Acute Tubular Necrosis
Magnetic resonance imaging of hyperpolarized [1,4-13C2]fumarate can be used to detect early renal tubular necrosis
Growing for Gold
Gold nanoparticles grown on ionic liquid-functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes have potential for photothermal therapy
University World Ranking 2012
Harvard remains the number one in the world for the tenth year; five Chinese universities move into the Top 500 for the first time
Best Drug Permeability Model
Improved in vitro drug permeability model by artificial human small intestinal villi scaffolds