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Planned purchase highlights the appeal of rare disease treatments to drug companies

UPDATE: Since posting, the fundraiser has gone from 57% to 62% target reached! Thank you! Keep those donations coming in. Diffuse Midline Glioma, H3 K27M Mutation is not a phrase you want to hear from a doctor. It’s a type of tumour that most commonly affects people under about the age of 25 years but … Continue reading "Midline Glioma – research fundraiser"

Since my transition from academia to industry I have completely shifted my focus from medicinal chemistry and chemical biology to chemical process development for Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials. It has been a huge change and hard work getting up to speed but well worth it. As I am sure you can imagine switching you 50 ml RBF out with 1000 litre reactor potentially results in a massive

Beetle-inspired robot proves nimble and durable in flight

Flight in Sweden would set stage for release of small amounts of chalky dust

Enhanced molecular model could lead to thinner and more efficient OLED displays

East African artifact may be first known treasure recovered from the “fantasy land” of Punt

Transaction would be the largest in AstraZeneca’s history

Despite severe declines in their numbers, insect will not get federal protection—yet

Just 10 senior researchers who received public funding in 2018-19 were Black, or 0.5 per cent of the total that year, the first breakdown of UK science funding by individual ethnic groups reveals

The Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List has 47 positions. It is curated by Lilian Josephson (@lljosephson).

Extra chromosome carries key genes that may work against them

‘First industrially relevant attempt’ to scale up perovskite solar cell manufacturing makes 12 meters of material per minute, with one meter costing only $2.50

Rich countries snapped up limited supplies, so protection will lag for others

Despite lack of large marsquakes, InSight team fixes size of crust, mantle, and core

A look at the chemistry of anise seed, which is used as a spice, either ground or whole

Intense snowflakes

You’ve seen snowflakes before, but not like this. Each of these images is a composite of 100 to 500 individual photographs taken on a custom-built 100 megapixel microscope camera. Nathan Myhrvold needed many shots of each snowflake to capture the detail he wanted through the depth of the tiny ice crystals. That kind of gear—complete with sapphire lenses, micron-level image stability, and sub-zero liquid cooling—isn’t available off the shelf, so Myhrvold took more than a year building it. Читать дальше...

Vaccinations have begun, but there's a long road ahead for this vaccine and others