Assistant Professor Alonso Rosas-Hernández is the first researcher to receive a Junior Group Leader grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation CO₂ Research Center (CORC), which is a four-year grant awarded for research that supplements ongoing research in the center. The project focuses on methane - another very potent greenhouse gas that we need to curb - and aims to develop novel hybrid catalysts to promote the electroconversion of methane to methanol to counteract methane accumulation in the atmosphere.

Good news for the many people who suffer from diabetes, as researchers from Novo Nordisk A/S, the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) at Aarhus University have taken some important steps together to understand and thus improve the effect of insulin in the body.

Synthetic biology strives to achieve robust control of biological processes in order to create designer organisms for a variety of industrial, diagnostic, and therapeutic applications. Researchers at the iNANO center of Aarhus University have developed RNA origami sponges and CRISPR-based regulators for advanced genetic control of enzymatic pathways in microorganisms to create a cheaper and more sustainable production of valuable biochemicals.