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Carbon monoxide may help shrink tumors, amplify effectiveness of chemotherapy
In recent years research has suggested that carbon monoxide the highly toxic gas emitted from auto exhausts and faulty heating systems can be used to treat certain inflammatory medical conditions Now a study led by ... - Read MoreTurning waste into power with bacteria and loofahs
Sorting Good Germs From Bad, in the Bacterial World
Released 12 3 2013 10 00 AM ESTSource Newsroom Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences more news from this source Dec 4 2013 Arizona State University scientists have developed a microfluidic chip ... - Read MoreIron-based process promises greener, cheaper, safer drug, perfume production
University of Toronto researchers have developed a series of techniques to create a variety of very active iron based catalysts necessary to produce the alcohols and amines used in the drug and perfume industry The ... - Read MoreInner workings of bacterial black box caught on time-lapse video
Oxygen, phosphorus and early life on Earth
Could next new cancer drug come from Kentucky coal mines?
Early Stages of Breast Cancer Could Soon Be Diagnosed From Blood Samples
Released 11 14 2013 11 00 AM ESTSource Newsroom Houston Methodist more news from this source Nov 14 2013 HOUSTON Nov 14 2013 What could someday be the first blood test for the early detection ... - Read MoreNanotechnology researchers prove two-step method for potential pancreatic cancer treatment
A new method of microscopic drug delivery that could greatly improve the treatment of deadly pancreatic cancer has been proven to work in mice at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center The research team led by ... - Read MoreAnimal, human health benefits anticipated from new biomedical instrument
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Released 3 11 2013 5 00 AM EDTSource Newsroom National University of Singapore more news from this source Mar 11 2013 A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore NUS led by Professor ...
In the EU funded project MicroMilk European SMEs together with the University of Hohenheim and the Fraunhofer IGB have developed a novel method for pasteurization of milk with microwaves The system preserves the valuable components ...
All chefs know that you have to break some eggs to make an omelet and that includes engineers at Iowa State University who are using high frequency sound waves to break down plant materials in ...
Released 10 11 2013 9 35 AM EDTEmbargo expired 10 13 2013 1 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom McMaster University more news from this source Oct 15 2013 Hamilton ON Oct 13 2013 Researchers at McMaster ...
A natural shift to stronger warm El Niño events in the Pacific Ocean might be responsible for a substantial portion of the global warming recorded during the past 50 years according to new research at ...
Geochemistry analysis conducted by the U S Naval Research Laboratory of fossil sediment injection structures off the New Zealand coast in February and March reveal no presence of modern day expulsions of methane gas a ...
More Medicinal Chemistry’s Latest News
More research needed into substitution principle and regulation of potentially hazardous chemical materials, experts urge
no picProfessor Ragnar Lofstedt Professor of Risk Management and the Director of the King's Institute for Risk Research King's College London and Editor of the Journal of Risk Research has published a paper suggesting that the ... - Read MoreMicrobes swim to hydrogen gas
Changing the conversation: Polymers disrupt bacterial communication
no picArtificial materials based on simple synthetic polymers can disrupt the way in which bacteria communicate with each other a study led by scientists at The University of Nottingham has shown The findings published in the ... - Read MoreNew aluminum alloy stores hydrogen: Versatile, lightweight material opens the door to fuel cells of the future
Resistance Is Futile: Chemists Develop New Way to Kill Cancer Cells Resistant to the Chemotherapy Drug Cisplatin
no piccell organelles that generate energy These structures have their own DNA inherited only from the mother which is essential for mitochondrial function Because mitochondria are involved in apoptosis the researchers wanted to see whether they ... - Read MoreImmunochemistry
How beryllium causes deadly lung diseaseUsing exquisitely detailed maps of molecular shapes and the electrical charges surrounding them researchers at National Jewish Health have discovered how the metal beryllium triggers a deadly immune response in the lungs In the July ...
Crystallography
Liquid crystal as lubricantThanks to a new lubricant small gears can run with virtually no friction Made from liquid crystalline fluid these lubricants drastically reduce friction and wear Lubricants are used in motors axels ventilators and manufacturing machines ...
- Definitive evidence of how zeolites grow: Tracking crystal growth in real time
- Researchers grow liquid crystal 'flowers' that can be used as lenses
- Plasmonic crystal alters to match light-frequency source: Device is like a photonic crystal, but smaller and tunable
- Crystal Mysteries Spiral Deeper
- Vaterite: Crystal within a crystal helps resolve an old puzzle
Scientific Communication
Highlights for 2014 National Meeting of World's Largest Scientific SocietyJournalists registering for the American Chemical Society’s ACS’ 248th National Meeting & amp Exposition this summer will have an abundance of material to mine for their news stories Nearly 12 000 presentations are planned on ...
- Study helps unlock mystery of high-temp superconductors
- Princess and the Pea? Invisibility cloak prevents an object from being felt
- Unprecedented 3-D view of important brain receptor
- Snowballs to soot: The clumping density of many things seems to be a standard
- Understanding biomechanics behind amazing ant strength opens door to advanced robotics
Acid-base Chemistry
First snapshots of water splitting in photosynthesisAn international team led by Arizona State University scientists has published today in Nature a groundbreaking study that shows the first snapshots of photosynthesis in action as it splits water into protons electrons and oxygen ...
- Postcards from the photosynthetic edge: Femtosecond snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation
- Study Yields First Snapshots of Water Splitting in Photosynthesis
- Efficient thermal cooling and heating
- Interlayer distance in graphite oxide gradually changes when water is added
- Insights from nature for more efficient water splitting
Natural Product Chemistry
Potent Spider Toxin 'Electrocutes' German, Not American, Cockroachessuggests that insecticides can be designed to target specific pests without harming beneficial species like bees A summary of the research led by Frank Bosmans Ph D an assistant professor of physiology at the Johns ...
- Bio-printing transplantable tissues, organs: Another step closer
- Cellular Gates for Sodium and Calcium Controlled by Common Element of Ancient Origin
- Details of calcium 'safety-valve' in cells explained
- Scientists investigate the role of the 'silent killer' inside deep-diving animals
- Fungi may determine the future of soil carbon
Molecular Biology
The electric slide dance of DNA knotsDNA has the nasty habit of getting tangled and forming knots Scientists study these knots to understand their function and learn how to disentangle them e g useful for gene sequencing techniques Cristian Micheletti professor ...
- Scientists Find Protein-Building Enzymes Have Undergone Metamorphosis and Evolved Diverse New Functions
- 'Microbe sniffer' could point way to next-generation bio-refining
- Identifying cyst-laden meat: Sarcocystis thermostable PCR detection kit developed
- Better tissue healing with disappearing hydrogels
- Long-sought molecular map of critical genetic machinery developed
Chemical Kinetics
Water-cleanup catalysts tackle biomass upgradingRice University chemical engineer Michael Wong has spent a decade amassing evidence that palladium gold nanoparticles are excellent catalysts for cleaning polluted water but even he was surprised at how well the particles converted biodiesel ...
Neurochemistry
Fluorescent sensor developed for detecting nitric oxide, a molecule related to many diseasesThe detection of certain chemical compounds in our body is essential to prevent many diseases and set out their treatment Thus making advances in the development of compounds that can be easily detected is key ...
- Ketamine acts as antidepressant by boosting serotonin
- Scientists decode serotonin receptor at room temperature
- Drexel Researchers Looking Inside Vessels to Understand Blood's Ebb and Flow
- Sudden Decline in Testosterone May Cause Parkinson's Disease Symptoms in Men
- Watching molecule movements in live cells
Separation Processes
Deep within spinach leaves, vibrations enhance efficiency of photosynthesisBiophysics researchers at the University of Michigan have used short pulses of light to peer into the mechanics of photosynthesis and illuminate the role that molecule vibrations play in the energy conversion process that powers ...
- Broadening the scope for synthesizing optically active compounds
- Lab-on-a-chip realizes potential
- Game changer for synthesizing new materials: Method synthesizes thousands of new compounds with ultra low thermal conductivity
- Evaporation: Tiny temperature differences are primary driving force in droplet evaporation
- Chemists Find New Compounds to Curb Staph Infection
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Recent News
- The electric slide dance of DNA knots
- Quantum leap in lasers brightens future for quantum computing
- Technique simplifies creation of high-tech crystals
- Discovery is key to metal wear in sliding parts
- A crystal wedding in the nanocosmos may lead to fast multi-functional processing units on single chip
- Nano-sized chip picks up scent of explosives molecules better than dog's nose
- Eco-pottery product from water treatment sludge
- Cost-effective, solvothermal synthesis of heteroatom (S or N)-doped graphene developed
- Dream come true for chemists? Creating organic zeolites
- Spinach could lead to alternative energy more powerful than Popeye
- Dead body feeding larvae useful in forensic investigations
- Unleashing the power of quantum dot triplets
- Chemist develops X-ray vision for quality assurance
- Atomic structure of key muscle component revealed
- How to power California with wind, water and sun
- Solar energy gets a boost: 'Singlet fission' can increase solar cell efficiency by as much as 30 percent
- Getting a charge out of water droplets: Water jumping from a superhydrophobic surface can be harnessed to produce electricity
- Squishy robots: Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states
- New materials for future green tech devices
- Anti-tank missile detector joins fight against malaria
- Researchers discover boron 'buckyball'
- Cheap, highly efficient solar cells: A new stable and cost-cutting type of perovskite solar cell
- Labs characterize carbon for lithion-ion batteries
- 3-D nanostructure could benefit nanoelectronics, gas storage: functional advantages of 3-D boron nitride predicted
- When is a molecule a molecule? Scientists watch fast electron jumps in exploding molecules
- Scientists experimentally re-create conditions deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter and many exo-planets
- Research Finds Bedbugs Can Be Killed with Lower Dosage of Chemical
- Scientists Find Protein-Building Enzymes Have Undergone Metamorphosis and Evolved Diverse New Functions
- Removing disordered regions of shape-shifting protein explains how blood clots
- Directly visualizing hydrogen bonds
- Improving tumor radiation therapy: When basic ions break DNA down
- Best-ever efficiency points to clean, green gas-diesel engine
- Efficient structures help build a sustainable future
- A Natural Way to Monitor, and Possibly Control Populations of, Stink Bugs
- Study of noninvasive retinal imaging device presented at Alzheimer's conference
- Flashes of light on a superconductor
- Deep within spinach leaves, vibrations enhance efficiency of photosynthesis
- Technology produces clean-burning hydrogen fuel cheaply using carbon nanotubes
- Fuel cells for powering homes
- Physicists detect process even rarer than the long-sought Higgs particle
- First snapshots of water splitting in photosynthesis
- Uncertainty gives scientists new confidence in search for novel materials
- Pressure cell for reproducing deep-Earth chemistry
- Postcards from the photosynthetic edge: Femtosecond snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation
- Making quantum connections: The speed of information in a spin network
- Silicon oxide for better computer memory: Use of porous silicon oxide reduces forming voltage, improves manufacturability
- Neutron crystallography resolves long-standing molecular mystery
- Sophisticated radiation detector designed for broad public use
- Ultrasound tracks odor representation in brain
- Bacteria Hijack Plentiful Iron Supply Source to Flourish
- Study Yields First Snapshots of Water Splitting in Photosynthesis
- American Chemical Society Meeting Features Hands-On Family Event, Energy Symposia
- New Compound Treats Both Blindness and Diabetes in Animal Studies
- Potent Spider Toxin 'Electrocutes' German, Not American, Cockroaches
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