A plan to set up centres of excellence for genomics across Africa aims to transform access to cutting-edge technologies on the continent. The centres could help to reshape the response to some of the continent’s most pressing health challenges. Africa tops many lists for disease burden, yet genomics has had little impact on healthcare in […]

A team surrounding Ivan Huc, from Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in Germany, has made a 12.9kDa pseudo-quaternary structure composed of four aromatic oligoamide helix-turn-helix modules.1 Single crystal x-ray diffraction analysis of the abiotic foldamer shows some previously identified assembly patterns, as well as new ones involving multiple water molecule bridges. ‘This contribution to foldamer research pushes […]

A project to prepare the next generation of researchers to embrace the principles of green chemistry is underway thanks to a partnership between Merck KGaA’s subsidiary MilliporeSigma and the global nonprofit Beyond Benign. The initiative, announced in conjunction with the American Chemical Society’s spring meeting, will provide expanded access to training resources and other support […]

An artificial biosystem comprising three microbes and a conductive polymer has been shown to produce proteins using sunlight, atmospheric carbon dioxide and nitrogen more efficiently than natural organisms. The multi-organism approach could enable symbiotic microfactories that synthesise commercial biochemicals useful for agricultural, environmental, food and medical applications, say the researchers. Individual microbe species have been […]