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Chemistry World
November 25, 2010
Laura Howes |
Making plastics from plants Cheap bio-oil could soon compete with crude oil in plastic manufacture, thanks to work by US scientists.   |
Chemistry World
November 25, 2010
Hayley Birch |
Designing safer stents for heart patients A study by UK researchers provides insights into how the body reacts to the metal stents used to wedge open blocked blood vessels in heart patients. |
Chemistry World
November 19, 2010
Philippa Ross |
Rise of the micro machines Microjet engines called microbots that can transport cells within a fluid to any desired location have been developed by German scientists. |
Chemistry World
November 19, 2010
David Barden |
The medicine's in the (wine) bottle Some red wines contain such high levels of polyphenols that a single glass has equivalent bioactivity to several daily doses of an anti-diabetes drug, say Austrian scientists. |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2010
Hayley Birch |
'Hunger hormone' activating enzyme holds promise as obesity target Blocking a key gut enzyme involved in the hunger response can reduce weight gain in mice, say US and Taiwanese researchers. The approach could eventually lead to treatments for obesity in humans that would work by damping down hunger pangs. |
Chemistry World
November 17, 2010
Jon Cartwright |
DNA origami meets low-cost lithography Chemists in the US have developed an easy way to integrate the 'bottom up' assembly of DNA origami with the 'top down' patterning of low cost lithography. |
Chemistry World
November 15, 2010
Manisha Lalloo |
pH prompts protein structure US researchers studying the naturally-occurring amyloid protein Pmel17 have discovered that pH plays an important role in its structure, helping the body control its aggregation. |
Chemistry World
November 12, 2010
Akshat Rathi |
How green is your detergent? Fragranced household products, even those labelled as 'green', can emit large numbers of hazardous chemicals that aren't listed on their labels, US researchers have confirmed. |
Chemistry World
November 10, 2010
Mike Brown |
Sulfur story unearths oxygen environment Earth's atmosphere could have supported complex life 400 million years earlier than thought, according to sulfur isotope signatures found in some of the oldest rocks on Earth. |
Chemistry World
November 7, 2010
Laura Howes |
Inhaled nanoparticles, from there to where? US scientists have for the first time shown how the size and surface properties of nanoparticles can affect where they end up in the body after they are inhaled. |
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