Evonik aligns two business lines with new growth strategy

Businesses outside core areas are to be sold or discontinued

16-Oct-2024 - Evonik is reorganizing two business lines to strengthen their growth prospects. Coating & Adhesive Resins and Health Care will focus on and concentrate future investments in their respective core businesses. The remaining businesses outside these cores are to be sold to new owners or incorporated ...

Cancer drug could treat early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, study shows

26-Aug-2024 - A type of drug developed for treating cancer holds promise as a new treatment for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, according to a recent study by researchers at Penn State, Stanford University and an international team of collaborators. The researchers discovered that by blocking a ...

Biomolecules identified at the nanoscale

New method for measuring amino acids

22-Feb-2024 - For the first time, a team of scientists has been able to identify individual amino acids in a peptide, a combination of several amino acids, on the surface of a single molecule. This means that one of the basic building blocks of life can now be studied down to the nanometre level. Led by ...

Thianthrenium chemistry allows for reactivity switch of a nucleophilic amino acid into a versatile intermediate

Useful and broadly applicable tool in the field of chemical biology

03-Jan-2024 - Chemical diversification of proteins is an important concept in the study of biological processes and the complex structures of the proteins themselves. It involves using quick and mild reactions that selectively target a specific amino acid and therefore a building block of proteins. Cysteine is ...

Could eating turkey ease colitis?

According to data in mice, extra tryptophan could reduce the risk of future colitis flares

28-Nov-2023 - Thanksgiving is often a time for thinking about your belly. For those with an inflammatory bowel diseases like ulcerative colitis, feasting can be associated with stress, even when food isn’t a trigger for the painful symptoms. New research in mice suggests that certain foods – especially those ...

Bacteria contribute to the modulation of animal behaviour

Research team uses the example of the freshwater polyp Hydra to show how nerve cells and microorganisms cooperate to control the animals' feeding behaviour

24-Nov-2023 - An increasingly important field of work in modern life sciences is the study of the symbiotic coexistence of animals, plants and humans with their specific microbial populations. In recent years, researchers have gathered growing evidence that the composition and balance of the microbiome plays a ...

New chemical process makes it easier to craft amino acids that don’t exist in nature

02-Aug-2023 - Every protein in your body is made up of the same 20 building blocks called amino acids. But just because nature is stuck with a limited toolkit doesn’t mean humans can’t expand it. A study published in Science by a team including Pitt chemists describes a powerful new way tocreate “unnatural” ...

Ingestion of taurine delays aging

Can the aging process be slowed down by raising taurine concentrations to a “young” level?

12-Jun-2023 - Taurine deficiency is one of the driving forces in the aging process of humans and animals. This is one of the results of a study which has now been published in the prestigious journal Science. Treatment with taurine extends the lifespan of mice by 10 percent. Monkeys that receive the treatment ...

Artificial photosynthesis for environmentally friendly food production

Researchers produce important amino acid from greenhouse gas CO₂

03-May-2023 - Ensuring the supply of food to the constantly growing world population and protecting the environment at the same time are often conflicting objectives. Now researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully developed a method for the synthetic manufacture of nutritional ...

Kombucha to kimchi: Which fermented foods are best for your brain?

18-Apr-2023 - Many countries around the world have their own staple fermentedfoodswhich are ingrained into culture and diet. It can’t be a coincidence that this has happened again and again. It seems logical that fermentedfoodsoffer more than a method of preservation.  Diet can hugely impact your mental ...