One can get a glimpse of it from the memoir of famous French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904), written at the end of 1903, recalling his first meeting with another French painter Charles Jalabert in 1840: (more…)
There’s an urgent demand for new antimicrobial compounds that are effective against constantly emerging drug-resistant bacteria. Two robotic chemical-synthesizing machines, named Symphony X and Overture, have joined the search. Their specialty is creating custom nanoscale structures that mimic nature’s proven designs. They’re also fast, able to assemble dozens of compounds at a time.(more…)