A bright future for biodegradable polymer DESs?

A Bright Future for Antibiotics?

Multidrug resistance is a global threat as the clinically available potent antibiotic drugs are becoming exceedingly scarce. For example, increasing drug resistance among gram-positive bacteria is responsible for approximately one-third of nosocomial infections. As ribosomes are a major target for these drugs, they may serve as suitable objects for novel development of next-generation antibioti...

Microfabrication technology for polycaprolactone, a biodegradable polymer

In this paper, we report the development of micromachining techniques for a biodegradable polymer for the first time. By virtue of their ability to naturally degrade in tissues, biodegradable polymers hold immense promise as new materials for implantable biomedical microdevices. This work focuses on the establishment of microfabrication processes for biodegradable microstructures and microdevic...

A bright future for the bright yellow-2 cell culture.

The capacity of plant cells to revive out of a latent stage of differentiation and to start dividing in the presence of appropriate hormone concentrations has facilitated the in vitro culturing of a panoply of plant species from different tissue sources. Cell biology studies have been performed on many different cultures, but their divergent nature has complicated the integration of research in...

A Bright, Shiny Future

A bright future for the Montreal Protocol.

Environmental policy of the 1980s could provide direction and solutions for 21st century debates.