This year’s Gregori Aminoff Prize in crystallography has been awarded to researchers Elena Conti and Patrick Cramer in Germany and Seth Darst in the US, for their investigations of cellular systems supporting RNA development, a macromolecule which reads and interprets the information in the genome of all living organisms. Click to read more.
Scientists, government officials and senior leaders in research and healthcare from across the UK, were amongst over 100 guests that turned out in force to attend the official opening of the University of Nottingham’s Biodiscovery Institute (BDI) at the beginning of September. Click to read more.
A team of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a device that offers a quicker and less invasive way to seal tears and holes in blood vessels, using an electrically-activated glue patch applied via a minimally invasive balloon catheter. Click to read more.