Review Archives

04 Jul

Driving Therapeutic Innovation in Neurodegenerative Disease with Hydrogen Deuterium eXchange Mass Spectrometry

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence

Andrea Pierangelini, Benedikt M. Kessler, Darragh P. O’Brien Neurodegenerative diseases affect millions of people worldwide, with dementia and Parkinson's being among the most prevalent. Neurodegenerative disease encompasses a collection of disorders which display a progressive decline...

12 Jun

Review

Determination of Free Amino Acid Concentrations in Bovine Plasma Using High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography With Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Detection

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence

Laurie A. Reinhardt, Levi Svaren, Ritvik Marathe, Geoffrey I. Zanton, Michael L. Sullivan Understanding the nutritional cycles of dairy cows is very important for a number of reasons. For instance, to monitor: the health of...

19 May

Review

Repurposing dried blood spot device technology to examine bile acid profiles in human dried faecal spot samples

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
bile acid, DBS, DFS, IBS, journal, LC-MS/MS, liquid chromatography, review, scientific paper

Melinda A Engevik, Santosh Thapa, Ian M Lillie, Mary Beth Yacyshyn, Bruce Yacyshyn, Andrew J Percy, Donald Chace, Thomas D HorvathIrritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal disorder affecting about 10–15% of people in the developed world and 1 in 26 people worldwide....

08 May

News, Review

Towards a Non-singular Paradigm of Black Hole Physics

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
black hole, Einstein, Event Horizon Telescope, LIGO, mimicker, physics, quantum, regular, Schwarzschild, singularities, theory of everything, theory of relativity

Raúl Carballo-Rubio, Francesco Di Filippo, Stefano Liberati, Matt Visser, Julio Arrechea, Carlos Barceló, Alfio Bonanno, Johanna Borissova, Valentin Boyanov, Vitor Cardoso, Francesco Del Porro, Astrid Eichhorn, Daniel Jampolski, Prado Martín-Moruno, Jacopo Mazza, Tyler McMaken, Antonio Panassiti, Paolo Pani, Alessia Platania, Luciano Rezzolla, Vania VellucciIn 1915, Einstein published his seminal work on general relativity. Also...

01 May

News, Review

Time Crystals: Defying the Laws of Physics

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
condensed matter, Floquet, nitrogen-vacancy, physics, quantum, quasicrystals, time crystals, Wilczek

Guanghui He, Bingtian Ye, Ruotian Gong, Changyu Yao, Zhongyuan Liu, Kater W. Murch, Norman Y. Yao & Chong Zu.In 2012, an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel Laureate named Frank Wilczek proposed the idea of a Time Crystal. Frank Wilczek is...

16 Apr

News, Review

Dark Oxygen: What this means for the origin of life?

9 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
dark oxygen, Nature, photosynthesis, SCOC, seafloor

Andrew K. Sweetman, Alycia J. Smith, Danielle S. W. de Jonge, Tobias Hahn, Peter Schroedl, Michael Silverstein, Claire Andrade, R. Lawrence Edwards, Alastair J. M. Lough, Clare Woulds, William B. Homoky, Andrea Koschinsky, Sebastian Fuchs, Thomas Kuhn, Franz Geiger & Jeffrey J. Marlow It has long been established that the origin...

28 Mar

News, Review

Phosphate-enabled mechanochemical PFAS destruction for fluoride reuse

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
fluoride, forever chemicals, persistent organic pollutants, PFAS, University of Oxford

Long Yang, Zijun Chen, Christopher A. Goult, Thomas Schlatzer, Robert S. Paton & Véronique Gouverneur For decades, research into the severity and prevalence of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) has been at the forefront of many institutional...

27 Mar

Review

Legacy and emerging flame retardants in sediments and wastewater treatment plant-derived biosolids

9 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
BFR, contaminants, European Green Deal, flame retardants, HFR, Irish marine Institute, OPE, PCB, persistent organic pollutants, Stockholm Convention, wastewater treatment

Martin Sharkey, Shijie Wang, Stuart Harrad, William A Stubbings, Mark G Healy, Jingxi Jin, Ann Marie CogginsThere has been many discussions regarding the utility and efficacy of fire safety standards for consumer products and the use of additive flame retardants...

20 Mar

Review

A robust organic hydrogen sensor for distributed monitoring applications

24 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
decarbonise, green hydrogen, hydrogen, hydrogen energy, net zero, PEM, semiconductor, sensor, sustainable

Suman Mandal, Adam V. Marsh, Hendrik Faber, Tanmay Ghoshal, Dipak Kumar Goswami, Leonidas Tsetseris, Martin Heeney & Thomas D. AnthopoulosWhat is Hydrogen Energy? Hydrogen has become central to the energy sector. Standard fossil fuels, combined with their inherent polluting qualities, are wholly...

21 Feb

Review

MRI Imaging Demonstration of the Cardiovascular System

20 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
angiography, D2O, hyperpolarised, Max Planck Institute, MRI, n-acetyl-alanine, parahydrogen

Lisa M. Fries, Denis Moll, Ruhuai Mei, Theresa L․ K․ Hune, Josef Elsaßer, Stefan Glöggler.This proof-of-concept study—conducted in collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and the Centre for Biostructural Imaging of...