Maria Gavrilescu is professor at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical Universiry, Iasi, Romania, and author of highly cited review articles

Yamuna Krishnan, NCBS, India, already perfomed a remarkable career, is enthusiastic not only about sciences, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschft (DFG) establishes priority programmes leveraging scientific expertise in Germany and further afield

Genetically modified cyanobacteria convert membrane lipids into fatty acids for economical and environmentally sustainable biofuel

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Attempts to uncover active components of folk medicine have led to discovery of three new anti-inflammatory compounds in a toxic shrub

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Tracking bismuth uptake at the single-cell level using mass spectrometry could see new anti-ulcer drugs developed