A new study in Cancer Causes and Control suggests a link between eating fish and skin cancer. However, Harvard Medical School warns that it’s too soon to make definitive conclusions about the relationship between fish in our diets and melanoma.

A team based at Princeton University has accurately simulated the initial steps of ice formation by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to solving equations that govern the quantum behavior of individual atoms and molecules. The resulting simulation describes how water molecules transition into solid ice with quantum accuracy.

Sample management has changed enormously over the intervening years.  // In the beginning, sample management often meant storing samples in unlabelled tubes in a freezer in a cupboard, or even in the car park! The only labelling then was writing on the rack or on the bag. In rare cases there might be a 1D barcode on the side of the rack. Databases were just Word or Excel files, and there was no concept of having sophisticated tracking for chemical compounds. This has changed totally in the last 20 years, from a rudimentary start. Later, sample management began to be taken as a genuine serious discipline as organizations realized that their compound libraries were highly valuable.

Of the many contemporary conveniences often taken for granted in developed countries, modern sanitation may be among the most important. A new study suggests that wastewater infrastructure may provide societal benefits far beyond the dramatic improvements in community hygiene. The research highlights a technique known as Wastewater-based Epidemiology.

Imagine a future in which you could 3D-print an entire robot or stretchy, electronic medical device with the press of a button —no tedious hours spent assembling parts by hand. That possibility may be closer than ever thanks to a recent advancement in 3D-printing technology led by engineers at CU Boulder.

In a busy hospital, a radiologist is using an artificial intelligence system to help her diagnose medical conditions based on patients’ X-ray images. Using the AI system can help her make faster diagnoses, but how does she know when to trust the AI’s predictions?

A colony counter with a detachable tablet is ideal for daily laboratory use.  // Its unique assist mode automatically identifies colonies of the same type and makes it possible to conduct a colony count with just a few clicks.

So far, lignin was only a waste material of the paper industry. A team at the University of Delaware succeeded in turning industrially processed lignin into high-performance plastics, such as bio-based 3D-printing resins, and valuable chemicals.

Chromatography is a physical separation process. Here, the separation of a mixture of substances is allowed by different distribution of the individual components between a stationary and mobile phase. The stationary phase does not move. The sample and a running medium result in the mobile phase. Chromatography is nowadays an integral part of biochemistry, food chemistry, environmental chemistry, etc. Chromatographic analysis methods are used for qualitative and quantitative analysis.

In a new study, a research group at Arizona State University explores different approaches to catalysis, a chemical process that plays an essential role in biological reactions, as well as many industrial applications.