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Chemistry World August 27, 2015 Christopher Barnard |
Individual microRNA molecules detected with a single microbead An elegant strategy for detecting minuscule quantities of microRNA using just a single functionalized microbead could be an important innovation for biomedical research and molecular diagnostics. |
Chemistry World August 27, 2015 Mark Peplow |
Credit where credit's due It seems that although many chemists have a strong sense of who deserves authorship on a scientific paper, they often disagree on the criteria. |
Chemistry World August 26, 2015 Andrea McGhee |
How could a tree make tramadol? Researchers in France, Switzerland and Cameroon are convinced that the African pin-cushion tree produces the well-known painkiller Tramadol and are determined to prove it. |
Chemistry World August 26, 2015 Philip Ball |
A shared secret? Why did alchemy die out after the 17th century? It was becoming somewhat disreputable even while Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle were enthusiastically but somewhat surreptitiously practicing it. |
Chemistry World August 25, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Simple chemistry saving thousands of gold miners from mercury poisoning Every year, thanks to mining practices that have persisted for centuries, huge amounts of mercury pollute the atmosphere and poison hundreds of thousands of people in some of the world's poorest countries. |
Chemistry World August 25, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemists wage war on designer drugs It is relatively simple to take a drug that has a known psychoactive effect and change one substituent group to make it into another drug that is not yet classified as illegal but provides the same or similar psychoactive high |
Chemistry World August 25, 2015 Fiona Case |
Alternative nutraceutical delivery method proposed An alternative approach has been proposed for encapsulating and delivering nutraceuticals using particle-stabilized Pickering emulsions in place of the surfactant stabilized materials. |
Chemistry World August 24, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Ultralight solar cells designed to drive drones An ultrathin, flexible, stretchable and lightweight 'solar foil' has been produced from perovskite solar cells by researchers in Austria. |
Chemistry World August 24, 2015 Kira Welter |
Trapped nanoparticles could bring 'wet' computing a step closer Scientists in Switzerland have developed a way to quickly and reliably store, read, erase and rewrite information using colloidal nanoparticles. |
Chemistry World August 24, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
New drug treatment for alcoholism shows promise in animal studies Beta-carbolines developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, US, could offer a novel treatment for alcoholism that targets a specific receptor in the brain, rather than simply reducing dopamine levels. |
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