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National Defense
February 2011
Eric Beidel |
Putty May Put Soldiers On Fast-Track to Recovery Researchers are making big strides toward developing a putty that can regenerate bone and allow the injured to function normally during the healing process.   |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
Sandra Upson |
Bionic Pancreas Artificial organ could improve control over diabetes |
Chemistry World
December 20, 2010
Jennifer Newton |
Frozen assets in biobanks Scientists from Sweden have devised a technique that extracts both DNA and RNA from frozen tissue in a bid to improve large-scale extractions from samples stored in biobanks, which could aid cancer research. |
Chemistry World
December 17, 2010
James Mitchell Crow |
Drug delivery: from needles to nanorods? Gold nanorods warmed by beams of infrared light could be the ideal way to deliver drugs through the skin, researchers in Japan have discovered. |
Chemistry World
December 16, 2010
Elinor Richards |
Measuring the strength of garlic Richard Compton and his team from the University of Oxford have made an electrochemical sensor that detects the amount of diallylsulfides in garlic. Larger amounts of diallylsulfides indicate a stronger flavor. |
Chemistry World
December 15, 2010
James Urquhart |
Biohydrogen produced in air A strain of nitrogen-fixing ocean microbe has been found to be the most efficient hydrogen-producing microbe to date, boosting the prospect of one day using hydrogen as an environmentally friendly fuel. |
Chemistry World
December 15, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Vodka taste test tiff 'Tis the season for the office drinks party, so perhaps an appropriate time for a row to have broken out over the science behind the taste of vodka. |
Chemistry World
December 13, 2010
James Urquhart |
Nanotube probe for cellular studies A new way of peering inside biological cells using carbon nanotubes as tiny multifunctional endoscopes has been developed by US researchers. |
Chemistry World
December 8, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Nanodiamond encrusted bones Using tiny diamonds to reinforce biodegradable polymers could make them strong enough to make surgical screws that simply dissolve once their purpose is served, say US scientists. |
Chemistry World
December 3, 2010
Mike Brown |
Arsenic sustains life A microorganism that uses the toxic element arsenic instead of essential nutrient phosphorus to sustain growth and life has been discovered by US researchers and could help us understand how life on Earth evolved. |
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