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A New Way of Treating the Flu

A New Way of Treating the Flu

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- What happens if the next big influenza mutation proves resistant to the available anti-viral drugs? This question was presenting itself to scientists and health officials recently at the World ...


A New Way of Treating the Flu

A New Way of Treating the Flu

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

What happens if the next big influenza mutation proves resistant to the available anti-viral drugs? This question is presenting itself right now to scientists and health officials this week at the World Health ...


A new way of the treating the flu

A new way of the treating the flu: Approach targets both the H and N portions of the virus

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- What happens if the next big influenza mutation proves resistant to the available anti-viral drugs? This question is presenting itself right now to scientists and health officials this week ...





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Researchers Discover Novel Method for Activating Enzymatic Reactions

Chemistry /

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered a new method for "switching on" enzymatic reactions with precise energy delivery: by using microwave radiation.


Research leads to new technology to protect human health

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Larry Wackett and Michael Sadowsky, members of the University of Minnesota's BioTechnology Institute, developed an enzyme that is used in Bioo Scientific's new MaxDiscovery™ Melamine Test kit, which simplifies the detection ...


New Web database improves access to ionic liquid data

Chemistry /

created Aug 18, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Chemical engineers and others designing "green" industrial processes using new ionic liquid solvents now have an important new resource, an on-line database of physical properties developed by the National Institute of Standards ...


World first nanotechnology to revolutionise oil production

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 13, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (36) | comments 0

Nanotechnology to help extract more petrol from oil fields has been developed by researchers from The University of Queensland's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN).


Undergrad has sweet success with invention of artificial Golgi

Biology /

created May 07, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An undergraduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has learned very quickly that a spoonful of sugar really does help the medicine go down. In fact, with his invention, the sugar may actually be the medicine.


Blood-Compatible Nanoscale Materials Possible Using Heparin

Blood-Compatible Nanoscale Materials Possible Using Heparin

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 04, 2006 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have engineered nanoscale materials that are blood compatible using heparin, an anticoagulant. The heparin biomaterials have potential for use as medical devices ...


From Sugar to Gasoline

Technology / Energy

created Sep 18, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (47) | comments 9

Following independent paths of investigation, two research teams are announcing this month that they have successfully converted sugar-potentially derived from agricultural waste and non-food plants-into gasoline, diesel, ...


Money doesn't grow on trees, but gasoline might

Money doesn't grow on trees, but gasoline might

Chemistry /

created Apr 07, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 5

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of "green gasoline," a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees.


Discovery could help stop malaria at its source -- the mosquito

Chemistry /

created Aug 29, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

As summer temperatures cool in the United States, fewer mosquitoes whir around our tiki torches. But mosquitoes swarming around nearly 40 percent of the world’s population will continue to spread a deadly parasitic disease ...


Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of nanocomposite paper

Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of nanocomposite paper

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 13, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (164) | comments 0

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper.



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