BIOENGINEER

How Well Can Your Cells Fix Broken DNA? A Landmark Review Maps the Tools That Measure Nucleotide Excision Repair

A new critical review in Molecular Biology Reports systematically compares the biochemical, cellular, and genome-wide assays ...

[Stories of Masterpieces] The Watch Repairman and the Nightclub Owner — Why Synth Companies Became Almost Entirely Japanese

When you look around a studio, the names are all very similar. Roland, Korg, Yamaha. Nine times out of ten, your synths, ...
SYNTH ANATOMY

Map Audio Rhino 3: Big Tick Audio’s 2004 FM additive Synthesizer is back

Map Audio has teamed up with Big Tick Audio to revive its original Rhino FM additive Synthesizer in an overhauled 3.0 version ...
SYNTH ANATOMY

Charles Vestal OMNI: an Omnichord custom firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1

Charles Vestal has published OMNI on GitHub, a custom firmware that turns the M-VAVE FM-1 Synthesizer into an Omnichord.
Nature

Synthetic chemistry methodology articles from across Nature Portfolio

The construction of complex sugars from aldehydes is difficult. Now, a rhodium-catalysed triple-carbonylation cascade is developed that enables the direct conversion of diverse aldehydes into ...
Nature

Polymer synthesis articles from across Nature Portfolio

Polymer synthesis, also called polymerization, is the process by which monomers (small molecules) are covalently bonded to form a (usually long) polymer chain or ...