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Tracing the traces: Nanogram concentrations of a toxic compound detected in chlorinated tap water

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking water can transmit a number of diseases, including typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and diarrhea, which can then spread explosively throughout an entire service area. To avoid this problem, drinking ...

Adjusting acidity with impunity

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(PhysOrg.com) -- How do individual cells or proteins react to changing pH levels? Researchers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have developed a technique ...

Glowing channels: Microanalysis system for rapid mercury detection

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Dec 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water contaminated with mercury is very dangerous for both people and the environment, as mercury is one of the most toxic heavy metals. Though laboratory analyses do deliver precise quantitative measurements, ...

Researchers discover novel method for detecting MIRCERA

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Dec 16, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Austrian researchers have successfully developed a new electrophoretic method for detecting MIRCERA® and other erythropoietins (EPO) in the blood. The technique, using SARCOSYL-PAGE, has specifically enhanced sensitivity ...

Snowflake chemistry could give clues about ozone depletion

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Dec 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

There is more to the snowflake than its ability to delight schoolchildren and snarl traffic.

Secret behind the composition of the varnish on Stradivari violins revealed

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Dec 04, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (23) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Antonio Stradivari is the most famous instrument maker of all time. He was especially famous for his violins, which he produced in Cremona from about 1665 until his death in 1737. In particular, ...

Researchers develop cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry' to perform formerly complex synthesis

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Dec 04, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (12) | 0

A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and then to create new bonds to join molecules together. ...

'Smell of old books' offers clues to help preserve them

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Dec 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Scientists may not be able to tell a good book by its cover, but they now can tell the condition of an old book by its smell. In a report in ACS' Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal, they describe develo ...

A little magic provides an atomic-level look at bone

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Dec 02, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study using solid-state NMR spectroscopy to analyze intact bone paves the way for atomic-level explorations of how disease and aging affect bone. The research by scientists at the University of Michigan ...

Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug

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Nov 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. ...

GE Scientists Developing Wearable RFID Sensors to Detect Airborne Chemical Agents

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Nov 20, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric, today announced a $2 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop wearable RFID sensors ...

IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

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Nov 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (11) | 0

IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for ...

'No muss, no fuss' miniaturized analysis for complex samples developed

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Nov 18, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

The goal of an integrated, miniaturized laboratory analysis system, also known as a "lab-on-a-chip," is simple: sample in, answer out. However, researchers wanting to use these microfluidic devices to analyze ...

Form of Mercury in Older Dental Fillings Unlikely to be Toxic: Study

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Nov 11, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Amid the on-going controversy over the safety of mercury-containing dental fillings, a University of Saskatchewan research team has shed new light on how the chemical forms of mercury at the surface of fillings ...

Telling an old book by its smell: Aroma hints at ways of preserving treasured documents

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Nov 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists may not be able to tell a good book by its cover, but they now can tell the condition of an old book by its odor. In a report published in the American Chemical Society's Analytical Chemistry they d ...