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.

Researchers have developed an ultrathin and lightweight electronic tattoo that can be attached to the chest for monitoring a person’s heart. This new wearable can be used at home and will also help to detect heart diseases at an early stage.

Under the collaboration between Trakcel and Lonza, both the parties have successfully combined Trakcel’s cell orchestration platform Ocellos and Lonza’s manufacturing Moda-Es(R) platform. This means that critical manufacturing steps, checks and data will flow directly into the Chain of Custody and Chain of Identity within the cell and gene therapy supply chain.

Researchers at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the USA have revealed that timing plays a crucial role when we eat as it has the ability to impact a person’s hunger levels, energy outflow, and is also responsible for molecular changes in fat tissue.

A cell-culturing technique developed by Kaust scientists helps to create biological conditions that more closely mirror physiological environments compared to standard protocols used in most laboratories today.

Concrete production causes nine percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. A new development can now help reduce concrete usage: Rice University scientists have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete.

Scientists at the National University of Singapore have developed an edible plant-based cell culture scaffold which will help to produce cheaper and more sustainable lab-grown meat. These scaffolds can also be 3D printed.

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?

Although some flowers have the ability to change their colors. Researchers have now revealed that Causonis japonica, a common plant in Japan, has a unique bidirectional color change ability that makes its flowers change color again and again.

A new report sends a dire warning to the chemical industry, which it says is on track for a future global warming scenario with catastrophic consequences, and sets out tangible, credible pathways for the sector to become an enabler of a sustainable global economy by 2050, while overseeing dramatic growth.