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Chemistry World May 13, 2015 Andy Extance |
Espresso maker brews up tasty extraction Researchers in Australia have used an unmodified household espresso maker to get nearly pure shikimic acid -- a raw material for Roche's antiviral drug Tamiflu -- from the spice star anise. |
Chemistry World May 13, 2015 Stephen McCarthy |
Venoms to drugs: venom as a source for the development of human therapeutics The book is well-constructed, starting with an overview of the evolutionary origins of venoms and how these relate to common structures, followed by a guide to modern bioinformatics methods and their application to research in this field. |
Chemistry World May 11, 2015 Jack Busby |
Terpene analogues bear safer pesticides Tweaking the natural substrates of terpene synthase enzymes could lead to less toxic pesticides and swathes of other important biologically-active compounds, according to UK researchers. |
Chemistry World May 11, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Scientists protest over political firing of Russian chemist The Russian chemistry community is on the verge of a serious conflict with the national government, over the sacking of a high-profile chemist who has criticized state policies related to science funding. |
Chemistry World May 8, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Gold-plated onion shows its strength as artificial muscle Producing many a tear in the kitchen, onions may now add some flavor to the robotics community as scientists in Taiwan have created an artificial muscle made from gold-plated onion skin. |
Chemistry World May 8, 2015 Jennifer Newton |
Chemists snare 17-electron half-sandwich radical A team from Nanjing University in China has successfully synthesized and characterized the organometallic radical cation [(C 6Me 6)Cr(CO) 3] +. |
Chemistry World May 8, 2015 Michaela Muehlberg |
Polymers curl up and take control Scientists in Germany have successfully collapsed single polymer chains into dense nanoparticles, to make single-chain nanoparticles, by adding palladium. |
Chemistry World May 7, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Carnivorous plant adhesive helps cells stick The adhesive used by carnivorous sundew plants to trap insects may one day find use as a cell-friendly scaffold in tissue engineering, researchers in the US have shown. |
Chemistry World April 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Missing mathematics? `Whether you use it or not, the ability to learn mathematics may be a good proxy for scientific proficiency. But in drug discovery, at least in my end of it, mathematics just doesn't seem to figure in very much. |
Chemistry World May 6, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Zombie cells may rise up to kill infections The worst fears of Hollywood may yet become a reality as chemists in Israel have found dead bacteria, killed with silver, may be able rise up like 'zombies' and go on to kill surviving pathogens. |
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