Due to agricultural emissions and wastewater from industry and households, nitrogen concentrations in estuaries are rising in many parts of the world. A team of international scientists shows that seaweed farms in river estuaries significantly reduce nitrogen concentrations and prevent environmental pollution.

McGill University researchers have discovered a new way to track genetically modified animals using the artificial transgenes they leave behind in the environment. The discovery provides a powerful new tool to locate and manage genetically modified animals that have escaped or been released into the wild.

Diagnostic and medical software company Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL), announced the CE-IVD registration of its Ultra Gene Assay SARS-CoV-2 452R & 484K & 484Q Mutations. Targeting key mutations on the virus, the test helps in this identification of the main variants of concern including lineages Delta and soon Lambda.

When stretched or deformed, shape memory polymers return to their original shapes after heat or light is applied. These materials show great promise for soft robotics, smart biomedical devices and deployable space structures, but until now they haven’t been able to store enough energy. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have developed a shape memory polymer that stores almost six times more energy than previous versions.

The idea of biodegradable plastics sounds good at first. However, very little is known about how they are degraded in the soil and how this is influenced by climate change. In two recent studies, soil ecologists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have shown which microbial community is responsible for degradation, what role the climate plays in this process, and why biodegradable plastics could still be problematic.

Data and analytics company Global Data has predicted that the arrival of biosimilar therapies in the EU will continue to fall in the coming years following a wave pattern that has been occurring since 2006.

The Protein Crash technique used by the Porvair Sciences P3 microplate is highly effective at removing proteins from biological samples prior to analysis.

In a collaboration with Chromsword, Thermo Fisher Scientific have launched an automated high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) method development system that enables chromatographers to deliver robust and validated methods in less time and with higher confidence.

Gerstel Pyro performs automated pyrolysis of 40, 80, or 120 samples in combination with the Gerstel Multi Purpose Sampler (MPS) robotic. Pyro performs pyrolysis up to 1000 °C.

A research team has introduced a novel and inexpensive material for electrodes that may provide for highly efficient, energy-saving hydrogen production: porous, phosphorized CoNi2S4 yolk-shell nanospheres.