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Working With Static Patterns: A Swift MVVM Tutorial
Real-time data-driven apps create new challenges in the way we structure our programs, especially on mobile. In this article, Toptal Freelance iOS Developer Lucas van Dongen implements an iOS chat app, comparing the classic MVC approach with a static immutable MVVM pattern.
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Soft electrodes cozy up to cells
Hydrogel electrodes could improve the accuracy of readings from heart and nerve cells
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C&EN’s 2015–2017 Start-Ups to Watch: Where are they now?
Many of the young, chemistry-based companies C&EN is tracking made headlines in the past year
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10 Start-Ups to Watch 2018: Kymera Therapeutics
Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech is writing the rules for protein degradation
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10 Start-Ups to Watch 2018: Bodle Technologies
Creating low-energy reflective displays—with color and video
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10 Start-Ups to Watch 2018: Solugen
Challenging the 75-year-old process for making hydrogen peroxide
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Terraform AWS Cloud: Sane Infrastructure Management
Writing an application is only part of the story. In order for it to be of value, it needs deploying somewhere it can scale; it has to run with high availability, have backups, and so on. Deployment and infrastructure management isn’t a simple process. And Terraform does nothing to hide the complexity. However, it does make your infrastructure declarative and reproducible, like your code.
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Academic-industry partnerships crucial for new instrumentation
Instrument makers and academia’s analytical researchers need each other, but speed bumps sometimes mark the way
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Diversity in focus at NOBCChE
Conference of black chemists and chemical engineers encourages connections, from high school students through university presidents
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Patient-derived cells provide new drug-screening method for schizophrenia
The cells provide more disease-relevant information than commonly used cancer cell lines
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Llama antibodies may spell human flu treatments
Researchers engineer broad-acting antibodies to fight multiple types of flu
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Career Ladder: Hannah Follis
This formulation chemist turned cosmetics entrepreneur whips up bold fragrances and daring lip colors
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Making flower power by using petals and leaves to build high-capacity electrodes
Polymer deposited on the fine features of plant surfaces produces high surface-area films for supercapacitors
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Electrochemistry could explain Mars’s organics
Brines and metal-rich minerals could reduce CO₂ to make alcohols and more
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Lynne Taylor named editor-in-chief of <i>Molecular Pharmaceutics</i>
Purdue University professor says the journal focus on emerging trends in the field
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Pledge to curb ocean plastics comes under fire
Critics say agreement is vague and fails to target a cut in plastics production
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Pricing power lifts chemical earnings
The third quarter saw specialties trend higher amid strong demand across many markets
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Is It Time to Use Node 8?
Node 8 has brought significant performance and feature upgrades. Should you use it on new projects? Is it worth upgrading existing codebases? In this article, Toptal Freelance JavaScript Developer Youssef Sherif gives a tour of Node 8's biggest changes and what they mean for your project.
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Sanofi pays $125 million for Denali’s RIPK1 programs
The deal will expand the therapeutic scope of the neurodegenerative compounds
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New Linear Algebra Division
Empire State University today announced a new Division of Linear Algebra and Information. It is the university’s largest program change in decades and helps secure its status among the country’s top Linear Algebra research and training hubs. “The division will enable students and researchers to tackle not just the scientific challenges opened up by pervasive […]
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Spiky particles enhance immune responses in mice
Adding spiky particles to immunotherapy and vaccines could improve their efficacy
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Gilead and Tango to develop novel immuno-oncology drugs
The partners will look for targets that help tumor cells hide from the immune system
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Chemists share their lab superstitions
They’re not exactly scientific, but they are entertaining
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Bacterial enzyme packs its catalysis into one tiny chamber
The structure is the smallest known biological reaction chamber found
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A Deep Dive into Entity Framework Performance When Using "Contains"
Entity Framework is a great tool, but in some cases its performance is slow. One such case arises when complex queries use "Contains". Join Toptal .NET Developer Anton Shkuratov in exploring how performance issues can be mitigated and finding the best approach to this type of complex queries.