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Chemistry World January 28, 2011 Yuandi Li |
Firefighters need more protection from chemical fumes Researchers are looking to investigate fire fumes from vehicles, such as hybrid and electric cars, and to use new personal monitors that employ whole air sampling principles to collect gases and vapors to measure even more chemicals. |
Chemistry World January 27, 2011 Elinor Richards |
Diet affects cholesterol drug Copper and zinc in the diet could impair the action of statin drugs, compounds prescribed to lower cholesterol, say US scientists. |
Chemistry World January 26, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Luminescence gives 2D pH images Researchers in Germany have devised a safe method to image the pH of tissue in the human body. The method, which involves measuring the luminescence of injected dyes, could help physicians monitor wound healing and tumour growth. |
Chemistry World January 26, 2011 Anna Watson |
Channelling deeper to target breast cancer US scientists have developed a model of the breast ductal system that could be used to discover abnormal cells or deliver drugs at locations further along the ducts than other techniques. The model fits on a slide, enabling on-chip experiments. |
Chemistry World January 25, 2011 Emma Shiells |
Patching up tooth enamel A calcium phosphate based hydrogel has been found to regenerate tooth enamel, which could help to fight the effects of acid erosion and alleviate sensitive teeth, say scientists in the UK. |
Chemistry World January 21, 2011 David Barden |
Close encounter makes modifying proteins easy Chemists in the US have now developed a powerful strategy for selectively modifying the side-chains of proteins, which they hope will enable the creation of new tools to investigate protein interactions involved in human diseases. |
Chemistry World January 21, 2011 Jennifer Newton |
Early lung cancer diagnosis Patients with lung cancer have elevated levels of a specific protein in their blood that could be used as a biomarker for the disease, say scientists from South Korea. |
Chemistry World January 21, 2011 Russell Johnson |
Jump starting prebiotic photochemistry Light activated reactions of organic molecules in fatty acid membranes offers a plausible method for energy transfer and storage in prebiotic systems, claim US scientists. |
BusinessWeek January 20, 2011 Michael Rosenwald |
Book Review: Naturally Selected: The Evolutionary Science of Leadership How to explain the rise of the mogul class? Why it's evolution, of course. At least that's the theory of the authors of Naturally Selected |
Chemistry World January 20, 2011 James Urquhart |
SNPs on display DNA origami and atomic force microscopy have been combined to reliably detect and image single nucleotide polymorphisms, the most common form of genetic variation in the human genome. |
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