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Research Article Dr. Joleen Masschelein Corresponding Author E-mail address: joleen.masschelein@kuleuven.be http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4366-3675 Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL UK Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Herestraat 49, PO Box 1041, 3000 Leuven, Belgium Laboratory for Biomolecular Discovery and Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 31, box…

Research Article Dr. Joleen Masschelein Corresponding Author E-mail address: joleen.masschelein@kuleuven.be http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4366-3675 Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL UK Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Herestraat 49, PO Box 1041, 3000 Leuven, Belgium Laboratory for Biomolecular Discovery and Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 31, box…

Winter is well and truly on its way. For many, this conjures up images of log fires, mistletoe and festive feasts. But it can also mean cold, damp mornings, short hours of daylight and the dreaded cold and flu season.April 11, 2020 by The Conversation Indonesia Leave a Comment —…

ImpactAlpha, April 8 – Entrepreneurs and investors are throwing resources at the pandemic (see, “World War II produced antibiotics, computers and nukes. What COVID may leave behind”). Fifty Years VC, which staked portfolio companies to $25,000 notes to pursue COVID solutions, already is seeing progress. One portfolio company, BilliontoOne, said…

Some of the first New York City-based volunteers from the contingent of medical professionals who have pledged to help in the fight against coronavirus have registered for shifts, according to the city’s department of health. But tens of thousands more are needed to handle the surge of patients in the…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Pandemics have always been fellow travelers of globalization. A third phenomenon stalks in their shadow: racism.That's worrying. The global threat of Covid-19 seems to be leading not to a unified global response, but to an American president who until Tuesday was describing it as a “Chinese virus” while officials in…

New research has discovered a giant cavity in a key tuberculosis molecule. The giant cavity, in a protein that transports nutrients across the cell membrane, is unlike anything researchers have seen before. Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a strange new feature of a…

post office AP/Brynn AndersonAs part of a $10 billion relief package for the US Postal Service, congress authorized the agency to create temporary delivery points. The goal is to reduce human contact and transmission of the coronavirus, and could look a lot like Amazon's locker delivery option. Earlier this week, lawmakers warned…

The New York Blood Center (NYBC) is the first blood-gathering organization in the U.S. to collect plasma from COVID-19 patients to use as a possible treatment for the disease. Before antibiotics rendered the practice moot, it was common to treat infectious bacterial diseases by infusing the blood of recovered patients…

Credit: American Chemical Society Municipal solid waste is trash—such as plastic, food scraps and lawn clippings—that goes into garbage bins and doesn't get recycled. Most of this waste is buried in landfills or is incinerated. Now, researchers reporting in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology have shown that when disposed of…