For the first time ever, a group of Danish and Chinese researchers has sequenced the genome of the spider. This knowledge provides a much more qualified basis for studying features of the spider. It also shows that humans share certain genomic similarities with spiders.

Researchers at Aarhus University have drawn up the most detailed ‘image of the enemy’ to date of one of the body’s most important players in the development of Parkinson’s disease. This provides much greater understanding of the battle taking place when the disease occurs – knowledge that is necessary if we are to understand and treat Parkinsonism.…

Senior assistant researcher Jens Bomholdt Ravnsbæk, iNANO, has had his work from MIT featured in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), an American Chemical Society publication. 

The article in C&EN Ball Mill Grinds Monomers Into Polymer describes a new method to make conductive polymers that is faster, easier and more environmentally friendly than…