Abu Dhabi, May 21 – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) opened its thirty-first Council meeting on Wednesday at its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, with more than 300 government representatives attending in person and online.…
How to make chromosomes from DNA
Restoration of DNA structure shown to be prerequisite [caption id="attachment_5402" align="alignright" width="300"] *Model of condensin function revealed by the present study. © 2015 Takashi Sutani[/caption] Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a long-overlooked…
Mechanism of an enzyme for biofuel production
[caption id="attachment_5398" align="alignright" width="300"] The three-dimensional structure of cellobionic acid phopshorylase. © 2015 Shinya Fushinobu.[/caption] A University of Tokyo research group has revealed for the first time the three-dimensional structure and mechanism of action of…
Acetic acid as a proton shuttle in gold…
Scientists in Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow have studied the mechanism of gold-mediated transformation of acetylenic molecules. [caption id="attachment_5395" align="alignright" width="300"] Carboxylic group-assisted proton transfer in metal complex. Copyright: Ananikov Laboratory (AnanikovLab.ru)[/caption] A recently published…
Study: Firms “underinvest” in long-term cancer research
Tweaks to the R&D pipeline could create new drugs and greater social benefit. [caption id="attachment_5391" align="alignright" width="639"] Illustration: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT[/caption] CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Pharmaceutical firms “underinvest” in long-term research to develop new cancer-fighting drugs due to…