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Rule may allow officials to play role of scientists in toxic chemical regulation

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

The Obama administration has promised to end political meddling in scientific decisions, but some critics say the White House has botched an early test of that pledge on a key question of public health: how to assess the ...





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Potential new drugs: 970 million and still counting

Potential new drugs: 970 million and still counting

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Like astronomers counting stars in the familiar universe of outer space, chemists in Switzerland are reporting the latest results of a survey of chemical space -- the so-called chemical universe where tomorrow’s ...


Scientists mine drugs database for new diabetes treatment

Scientists mine drugs database for new diabetes treatment

Biology /

created Feb 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have harnessed a new drug discovery tool to identify a new player in the body's insulin secretion process. This ...


Largest-ever database for liver proteins may lead to treatments for hepatitis

Largest-ever database for liver proteins may lead to treatments for hepatitis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at a group of 11 research centers in China are reporting for the first time assembly of the largest-ever collection of data about the proteins produced by genes in a single human organ.


Chemists Rationally Design Inhibitors Against an RNA Molecule that Causes Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy

Chemists Rationally Design Inhibitors Against an RNA Molecule that Causes Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists at the University at Buffalo have used rational drug design to synthesize small, cell-permeable molecules that are effective in vitro against two common types of myotonic muscular ...


Chemists create protein structure database

Chemistry / Other

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Any chemist with access to the Internet can now use a powerful tool to help them accurately identify the structure of a protein, thanks to recently published work led by Harold A. Scheraga, Cornell's Todd ...


Crystal structure library gets a 'data lift'

Crystal structure library gets a 'data lift'

Physics /

created Mar 06, 2006 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Much of science these days depends on "black (or beige) boxes," scientific instruments that invisibly analyze data and then, voilá, identify the chemistry and/or structure of a sample. While scientists and ...


Advance toward producing biofuels without stressing global food supply

Advance toward producing biofuels without stressing global food supply

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists in California are reporting use of a first-of-its-kind approach to craft genetically engineered microbes with the much-sought ability to transform switchgrass, corn cobs, and other organic materials ...


Thinking of turning your chemistry green? Consult GEMs

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A database designed to "build community" and reduce barriers when adopting green chemistry has doubled in size in the last two years, its creator told professional colleagues at the national spring meeting of the American ...


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Two food additives with previously unrecognized estrogen-like effects in two food additives

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Scientists in Italy are reporting development and successful use of a fast new method to identify food additives that act as so-called "xenoestrogens" — substances with estrogen-like effects that are stirring ...


New NIST database on gas hydrates to aid energy and climate research

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a free, online collection of data on the properties of gas hydrates, naturally occurring crystalline materials that are a potential energy resource and also ...



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