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Chemistry World March 24, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Bacteria altered to suppress hunger faces long road to clinic A US-based research team has programmed gut bacteria to produce a hunger-suppressing molecule that has been shown to aid weight loss in mice. However, there are still significant challenges ahead. |
Chemistry World March 23, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Simple cooking changes make healthier rice Researchers in Sri Lanka have found that making simple changes to the way rice is cooked can lower its calorie content, by converting some of the starch to a non-digestible form. |
Chemistry World March 23, 2015 Philip Ball |
Simple chemistry mimics animals' predator spotting method Some animals, from fish to cats to humans, use edge detection to decode their visual environment: they identify some objects just by their outline. |
Fast Company April 2015 Ben Schiller |
Stealth Doctors: Tiny Machines Inside Your Body Tiny machines that roam our bodies, delivering drugs and killing tumors: It sounds like science fiction, but someday it'll be just plain science. |
Chemistry World March 17, 2015 Andy Extance |
Reaction map suggests meteorite chemistry route to life UK chemists have found a reaction network that they believe shows that 'pretty much everyone' working on life's molecular origins is wrong -- but also 'right, in a sense'. |
Chemistry World March 16, 2015 Elisabeth Ratcliffe |
Enzyme selectivity switch to benefit infant formula production Scientists in Austria who have redesigned the active site of an enzyme to switch its regioselectivity may have latched onto a new way to make molecules that are important for infant formula. |
Chemistry World March 13, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Shipwrecked beer from 1840s lives again Researchers in Finland and Germany have analyzed samples of 170-year-old beer recovered from a shipwreck in a bid to discover more about how the beverage, and the process of making it, has changed through the ages. |
Chemistry World March 13, 2015 Phillip Broadwith |
BASF introduces bio-based polyTHF Chemical giant BASF has begun commercial production of polytetrahydrofuran (polyTHF) derived entirely from biomass feedstocks. |
Chemistry World March 13, 2015 Dimitris Charalampopoulos |
The Oxford handbook of food fermentations This book provides a comprehensive account of the science and technology of fermented foods through contributions by leading experts. |
Chemistry World March 12, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Chemical building blocks produce a wellspring of organic molecules Scientists in the US have developed an automated platform to create small organic molecules from a set of simple of chemical building blocks. |
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