The Washington Post: Breast Feeding Offers Some Surprising Benefits For Babies And Mothers A mother’s milk, rich in an exquisitely tailored mix of fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals, provides all the nutrition a helpless infant requires — and more. Breast milk is thought to protect against disease, set up a healthy digestive system and even influence a child’s behavior. And yet we know a lot less about this important substance than we could, says lactation researcher Katie Hinde of Arizona State University. (Wessel, 10/6)

OUTLOOK ’17: US chemicals expected to keep momentum With another year of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), the US chemical industry continued to grow in 2016, and multiple factors, ranging from optimistic opinions on the next presidential administration to investment and abundance of shale gas, have poised the industry for expansion in 2017, according to the American Chemistry Council.

A natural next question is why one would want to do API synthesis this way. Here’s the paper’s rationale:

My next submission to Science shall outline my new line of modular custom reactors for drug synthesis I shall name it QUICKFIT and we shall demonstrate the synthesis of SNAKE OIL :-@

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The driver behind the company’s success? The HORI 3D printer line, which has grown to a multitude of models in just a few years:

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We evaluated bone healing by radiography and μCT at 4 and 8 weeks after implantation (Fig. 3, A and B). We examined three groups for each of the coatings (PEA and PMA): (i) polymer only, (ii) polymer coated with FN (20 μg/ml), and (iii) polymer coated with FN and BMP-2 (~15 ng). Results for μCT, including quantification of bone volume (Fig. 3C), show that only when FN and BMP-2 were adsorbed on PEA did the defect become fully repaired and bridged. Thus, the effect could only be ascribed to the simultaneous presence of FN and BMP-2, promoting enhanced activity of the GF. The sleeve coated with either PEA only or PEA + FN did not promote the same level of bone growth, although FN did have some effect by itself with PEA (Fig. 3B). Also, this very low amount of BMP-2 was not effective in promoting bone growth when presented on PMA surfaces with FN (Fig. 3B). This result supports the specificity of the synergistic integrin/GF receptor mechanism on PEA shown in Fig. 2. Histological analysis at 8 weeks showed fibrous tissue with no significant bone formation within the defect for all the conditions except for PEA + FN + BMP-2, where bone formation and bone marrow establishment in the center of the defect were noted (fig. S5). Higher-magnification images within the defect confirm different tissue architecture among PEA, PEA + FN, and PEA + FN + BMP-2 (Fig. 3D). Without BMP-2, cells are organized along a fibrillar ECM with a fibroblastic morphology. However, on PEA + FN + BMP-2, cells are organized into cavity-like structures as in the bone marrow (arrows in Fig. 3D). There is also a lack of bone marrow–related structures in the cell organization observed on PEA+ FN (arrows).

Acrylic acid & esters is the general term for acrylic acid (AA) and acrylic esters (AE), wherein, AE mainly refers to common acrylic esters (CAE), inclusive of methyl acrylate (MA), ethyl acrylate (EA), butyl acrylate (BA), ethyl hexyl acrylate (EHA), etc.

And third, display glass manufacturing requires ongoing investment in current capacity to maintain operations. To generate acceptable returns on investments, glass pricing will need to improve even further. For Corning, we will only add capacity if we can get an attractive return for our shareholders.

NPR: A Brain Scientist Who Studies Alzheimer’s Explains How She Stays Mentally Fit As a specialist in Alzheimer’s prevention, Jessica Langbaum knows that exercising her mental muscles can help keep her brain sharp. But Langbaum, who holds a doctorate in psychiatric epidemiology, has no formal mental fitness program. She doesn’t do crossword puzzles or play computer brain games. "Just sitting down and doing Sudoku isn’t probably going to be the one key thing that’s going to prevent you from developing Alzheimer’s disease," she says. (Hamilton, 10/8)