A new research center based at the University of Glasgow is setting out to develop the ‘cognitive’ cities of the future which will revolutionize urban life. The Centre for Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabling Cognitive…
Pinpoint creation of chirality by organic catalysts
Minimal structural change in catalyst enables stereochemical inversion for the synthesis of amino acid derivatives [caption id="attachment_12011" align="alignnone" width="606"] A slight change in the structure of the organocatalyst generates the other diastereomer in high efficiency.Credit…
Gaia sky scan
[caption id="attachment_12008" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; acknowledgement: B. Holl (University of Geneva, Switzerland) on behalf of DPAC[/caption] This may look like a brightly decorated Easter egg wrapping, but it actually represents how ESA’s Gaia satellite…
NIH grant funds Center for Engineering Complex Tissues…
Biomedical technology resource will build a community around biomaterials [caption id="attachment_12005" align="alignright" width="217"] Antonios Mikos (Photo by T. LaVergne/Rice University)[/caption] HOUSTON – Bioengineers at Rice University, the University of Maryland and Wake Forest University have…
New dye allows super-imaging of cells
A new dye might allow researchers to view natural processes in extremely small components of living cells over a prolonged period of time; a previously unattainable feat. [caption id="attachment_12000" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Molecular structure of C-Naphox.Credit…