Anyone even only slightly familiar with Greek mythology knows about the chimera - a mythological creature with the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail with the head of a serpent. What ancient Greeks came up with thousands of years ago hasn’t disappeared in the modern world. This time around the chimeras aren’t just part of stories, but actually exist in the world with us, for example chimeric enzymes.

Use of alkylphenol ethoxylate (APE) surfactants such as nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) and octylphenol ethoxylates (OPEs), which include Triton X-100, has been banned in the European Union due to their ecotoxicity. While the permission to use Triton X-100 was extended due to the COVID pandemic, the use of it will become restricted on December 22, 2023.

With Monkeypox out there creating a new health concern, the need for new testing kits has already reached us. We have your best interests in mind! Like Covid, detection of the infection is by PCR test.

We are having a stability appreciation month, so here are all the good things related to stability from experiment set-up to logistics.