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HALIFAX, NS / ACCESSWIRE / March 2, 2021 / Metamaterial Inc. (the Company or META ) (CSE:MMAT) a developer of high-performance functional materials and nanocomposites, today announced that Scott Richards has joined the Company as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Mr. Richards is a growth-focused leader with 20 years of C-suite business and marketing experience. META also appointed Rob Stone as Vice President, Corporate Development and Communications. Mr. Stone brings 26 years of experience as a sell-side analyst covering a broad range of emerging growth sectors, including clean technology, advanced displays, and additive manufacturing. Additionally, META appointed Norbert Münzel as Country Managing Director, Switzerland. Mr. Münzel has over 30 years of experience in specialty materials for electronics, displays, and optical applications, including 25 years in C-level positions.
Coming Out Ahead With Smart Processes
During a recent interview with Dr. Tim Rodgers that focused on supply chain management, the conversation also touched on smart factories. We’ve included Tim’s insights on smart processes here.
Dr. Tim Rodgers is a faculty instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder, Leeds School of Business. Before joining the faculty at Leeds, Dr. Rodgers worked in a variety of senior positions in operations and supply chain management at both multinational corporations and mid-sized companies.
Barry Matties: Do you see automation as the big equalizer here in America? There’s got to be a push for this as we’re seeing smart factories, and such.
Summary
New cryo-electron microscopy images suggest archaeal microbes pack their chromatin into tight coils that can spring open, forming unexpected contortions.
Archaeal DNA forms coils that can flop apart in solution, new cryo-electron microscopy experiments reveal. Credit: S. Bowerman et al./
eLife 2021
In some single-celled organisms, DNA coils like a spring and opens like a book.
eLife. “Very much to our surprise, we found that these structures can undergo all sorts of gymnastics,” says Luger, a biochemist at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Like DNA in the nucleus of human cells, archaeal DNA coils around proteins like string wrapped around a yo-yo. But there’s another twist, the team found. Those coils of DNA can also spread 90 degrees apart – a phenomenon scientists hadn’t seen before. Such bends in the springlike structures could potentially let archaeal proteins sidle up to the DNA and switch genes on and off, Luger suggests. (Scientists don’t currentl
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