Новости за 14.01.2020

The microbes that live inside you say more than your genes do about your likelihood of developing health conditions ranging from asthma to cancer and schizophrenia

Toxoplasma gondii may have more general effects on mouse behavior than previously thought

Study also finds that Juul e-cigarettes pack more nicotine per puff than cigarettes

Iodine(iii) and iodine(v) coexist in new nitroiodoxybenzene-based oxidant

EU plans to regulate these compounds as a single class, as action on them stalls in the US

Agency’s approach to enforcement called “regulatory theater”

Pyrolysis of vitamin E acetate creates organic molecule with effects comparable to first world war chemical weapon

Introducing the power to predict how structure affects reactivity

TMT opponents try to win over other astronomers in priority-setting decadal survey

New technique could advance stem cell therapies, wound healing

Underground digester leads to higher and more stable temperature profiles for biogas production

Bottle chemistry

The colors of inorganic compounds have lured many students into chemistry. Martin Kostov didn’t have any proper chemistry glassware when he started experimenting in 10th grade, so he used an upcycled glass juice bottle. The colors in the bottle are from the oxidation of potassium permanganate, KMnO₄, with hydrogen peroxide and acetic acid. “I didn’t understand much, but I was so excited, discovering these colors,” Kostov says. Now, he is a chemical engineering undergraduate student in Razgrad, Bulgaria. Читать дальше...

The biotech firm has $200m in funding to support its drug development experiment