The Future Should Be Cute?

What Should be Done in the Future

• Catalyst recovery can be performed in an energy-efficient way by reducing the volume of distillation streams. • Temperature-sensititve catalysts can be recovered at relatively mild temperatures from high boiling compounds. • By enabling continuous operation, reactions can be run under steady-state conditions, e.g., at limited conversions. • Catalysts based on expensive metals or ligands can b...

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

Future collapse: how optimistic should we be?

Prof. Kelly FRS is optimistic about the chances of avoiding a collapse, but sadly we find his arguments entirely unpersuasive. For example, have Malthus (or we) really been wrong about food security? Roughly 850 million people are seriously undernourished (lacking sufficient calories) today, and perhaps 2 billion are mal-nourished (lacking one or more essential nutrients) [1]. When Malthus live...

The proteomic future: where mass spectrometry should be taking us.

A newcomer to the -omics era, proteomics, is a broad instrument-intensive research area that has advanced rapidly since its inception less than 20 years ago. Although the 'wet-bench' aspects of proteomics have undergone a renaissance with the improvement in protein and peptide separation techniques, including various improvements in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and gel-free or off-gel pr...

diabetes, renal failure and hepatitis c infection: the puzzle should be attended more in future