The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 is about making difficult processes easier. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal have laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry — click chemistry — in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. Carolyn Bertozzi has taken click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilising it in living organisms.

Scientists at Inserm, CNRS and the Université de Montpellier at the Structural Biology Center in Montpellier, France have built a small robot entirely from DNA and are using it to study cell processes that are invisible to the naked eye.

Waste water is more than just mud. In some industrial processes it is full of valuable raw materials, such as traces of the rare metal gallium. In order to recover them, researchers from Freiberg have now tested a new biotechnical process — and filtered metal ions out of the wastewater using a peptide gel.

Indian researchers have revealed that stevioside, a natural plant-based glycoside found in the leaves of Honey yerba, when coated on nanoparticles can increase the efficiency of Magnetic hyperthermia-mediated cancer therapy.

Visualising the structure of viruses, proteins and other small biomolecules can help scientists gain deeper insights into how these molecules function, potentially leading to new treatments for diseases. In recent years, a powerful technology called cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), where flash-frozen samples are embedded in glass-like ice and probed by an electron beam, has revolutionised biomolecule imaging. However, the microscopes that the technique relies upon are prohibitively expensive and complicated to use, making them inaccessible to many researchers.

By mimicking photosynthesis, the light-driven process that plants use to produce sugars, MIT researchers have designed a new type of photocatalyst that can absorb light and use it to drive a variety of chemical reactions.

They are often referred to as the “building blocks of life”: Biomolecules. To understand and use their function in the body, one must know their structure. A time-consuming and sometimes imprecise matter. This is where the new method comes in, which was developed at the UDE with other German research centres — with the help of artificial intelligence. The researchers have now published their results in Nature Machine Intelligence.

Waters Corporation announced an expansion of its joint work with the Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), a research institute of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star). Among their new collaborative projects, the partners have started work on applying analytics that can help ensure overall safety, accuracy, and speed of biologics manufacturing.

While it is known that stem cells have the ability to develop into all tissues in a precisely regulated process, the way environmental cues affect stem cell behavior has remained poorly understood. In a new study, researchers from the University of Tsukuba discovered that certain neurons regulate the behavior of germline stem cells (GSCs) in response to environmental cues, such as mating.

The Universitat Jaume I (UJI) has found biomolecules of plant origin and it has been tested against plant pathogens as well as pathogens of clinical interest in order to obtain high-quality commercial products for the agricultural and pharmaceutical industry.