For the first time, researchers have created the genome of a completely new, artificial bacterial species

Synthetic Genome of a New Bacterial Species

Angewandte Chemie 16/2019: See the Light
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Do Bacteria Cause Cancer of the Colon?
Gut flora of cancer patients shows characteristic changes

Simultaneous Nitrate and Hardness Removal from WasteWater
Effective treatment with microorganisms

Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences 2019
Svante Pääbo, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, and David Reich, Harvard Medical School, USA, awarded

Aircraft Fuel from Plant Waste
New process converts cellulose to high-density aviation fuel

Getting More from Cellulose: Acid-Catalyzed Formation of Furan-Type Compounds
Cellulose and cellobiose can be converted to furanoids in the presence of the ionic liquid zinc chloride hydrate and anisole

Intestinal Cancer from Sugary Soft Drinks?
Direct molecular mechanism links the consumption of fructose with colon cancer

Luminescent Nanosensor for Exosome Detection
Multiplex differentiation of cancer exosomes that bypasses real‐time light excitation

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