Global Innovation Technologist Awards

The “ Fully Automatic Biochemistry Analyzer Market ” is predicted to attain a valuation of USD xx.x billion in 2023, showing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of xx.x percent from 2024 to 2032. Estimates place this value at USD xx.x billion by 2032. A growing number of applications, rising consumer acceptability, and ongoing technical improvements are expected to propel the global market’s significant rise between 2024 and 2032. This promising future offers a great deal of potential for businesses in the industry to make large profits by means of collaborations, expansion plans, and smart investments in R&D.As a result of innovation , rising demand, and a widening range of applications, the global market is poised for strong growth. Participants are urged to take use of these chances in order to boost long-term success and competitiveness. Companies may position themselves for long-term growth and market leadership by utilizing technology breakthroughs, investigating novel appl...

UWM will officially unveil its new, state-of-the-art Chemistry Building at a grand opening celebration from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday. The event will celebrate the completion of six years of design and construction and cap a significant milestone in UWM’s commitment to advancing scientific education and research . The celebration will start with a dedication featuring remarks from Chancellor Mark Mone, other special guests and a ceremonial “ chemical reaction .” An open house reception, tours of the new space and presentations from students and faculty will follow. Construction of the four-story, 163,400-square-foot-building started in 2022, and it replaces a facility built in 1972. The new Chemistry Building serves as a gateway to UWM’s STEM departments and helps faculty and staff better prepare students interested in fast-growing fields like medicine , genetic engineering , toxicology, pharmaceutics, chemical education, nanoscience and more. More than 3,500 students take chemistry or bioc...

The protein 'MIPS' changes its internal structure when it becomes active. Its disordered active centre becomes a defined structure with special functions. The protein plays a key role in the production of inositol, which is also known as vitamin B8, and fulfils important tasks in the body. Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the National Hellenic Research Centre in Greece have succeeded for the first time in observing the protein as it re-structures. As the team reports in the scientific journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' (PNAS) this process appears to occur in many similar proteins. Proteins control all vital processes in every organism, for example growth and metabolism. A basic principle of protein research is that the structure of each protein determines its function. If the structure is impaired at just one specific point, the protein can no longer fulfil its function. In the human body, this can lead, for exam...

New research highlights that men and women with alcohol dependence may need different treatment approaches due to distinct hormonal and biochemical profiles. The study identifies specific hormone and protein markers that correlate with Alcohol Use Disorder symptoms and treatment responses, suggesting the potential for developing gender-specific treatments. Gender-Specific Factors in Alcohol Use Disorder New research reveals hormonal and biochemical factors that affect alcohol dependence (also known as Alcohol Use Disorder), indicating that men and women with alcohol problems may benefit from different treatments. Scientists have known that men and women have different risks related to alcohol misuse and related problems and that alcohol treatments may need to be tailored differently to men and women. However, the biological mechanisms underlying those differences are not well understood. Groundbreaking Research on Hormonal Influence “This is the first large study to confirm that some ...

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a biological molecule with crucial functions in the genetics of organisms and plays a key role in the origin and evolution of life. With a composition quite similar to DNA, RNA is able to perform a variety of biological functions conditioned by its spatial conformation, i.e. the way the molecule folds in on itself. Now, a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ) describes for the first time how the process of RNA folding at low temperatures may open up a novel perspective on primordial biochemistry and the evolution of life on the planet. The study is led by Professor Fèlix Ritort, from the Faculty of Physics and the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB) of the University of Barcelona, and is also signed by UB experts Paolo Rissone, Aurélien Severino and Isabel Pastor. New biochemistry for RNA at low temperatures RNA is formed by linking molecules of ribose (a monosaccharide) with phosphate groups t...

Living cells teem with proteins. But those proteins rarely work alone; they drive cellular behaviour by pairing up with other proteins to form transient or long-lasting complexes. “Most proteins in the cell are not monogamous, so to speak,” says Thomas Graham, a biophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Those relationships impact function: a protein can carry out several cellular tasks, depending on which molecules it interacts with. But studying protein complexes in cells has been challenging. Most techniques require cells to be broken open to obtain proteins to study in a test tube, or molecules to be labelled — but often the labels are too sparsely distributed to observe interactions reliably. In 2022, Graham and his colleagues in the laboratory of biochemist Robert Tjian and biophysicist Xavier Darzacq at UC Berkeley described a way to capture these interactions in live cells at the single-molecule level 1 . Called proximity-assisted photoactivation (PA...