Kaust researchers are engineering silkworms to grow the human form of E-selectin, revealing new aspects of its binding dynamics.

The movement of sea ice between Arctic countries is expected to significantly increase this century. This also raises the risk of more widely transporting pollutants like microplastics and oil between neighbouring coastal states, according to new research from McGill University in collaboration with University of Colorado Boulder, Columbia University, and Arizona State University.

One of the most pressing shortages facing hospitals during the Covid-19 emergency is a lack of ventilators. These machines can keep patients breathing when they no longer can on their own, and are quite expensive. Now, a rapidly assembled volunteer team of engineers, physicians, computer scientists, and others, centered at MIT, is working to implement a safe, inexpensive alternative for emergency use, which could be built quickly around the world.

The new partnership between Malvern Panalytical and Concept Life Sciences is expected to develop and deploy accredited physicochemical analysis techniques and methods in the pharmaceutical and food industries. Malvern Panalytical’s knowledge of analytical instrumentation and Concept Life Sciences' method validation and support expertise is anticipated to assist this development.

Graphite nanoplatelets integrated into plastic medical surfaces can prevent infections, killing 99.99 % of bacteria which try to attach – a cheap and viable potential solution to a problem which affects millions, costs huge amounts of time and money, and accelerates antibiotic resistance. This is according to research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in the journal Small.

Led by Dr. Manoj Kumar Bhat, a team of Indian researchers from the National Centre for Cell Science conducted studies on laboratory-bred mice to determine if obesity resulting from leptin deficiency could have any influence on cancer. The study provided valuable insights into the molecular connections underlying the relationship of diet-induced and genetics-associated obesity with colon cancer.

Wacker Chemie has opened a technical center for construction, textile and consumer-care applications in Istanbul. The technical facility serves as an application and test laboratory for polymeric binders and silicones.

Light-emitting diodes based on perovskites are still not sufficiently stable for practical use, but Researchers at Linköping University, working with colleagues in Great Britain, China and the Czech Republic have brought them one step closer.

Dr. Achintya Kumar Dutta from IIT Bombay along with his research group is working on the innovative quantum chemistry based software which is expected to be useful for radiation therapy-based treatment of cancer.

Physicists at Tomsk Polytechnic University suggested a new method to recycle spent nuclear fuel (SNF) which facilitates the extraction of precious metals, e.g. palladium, rhodium and ruthenium from nuclear waste.