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A chemical reaction is a process that always results in the interconversion of chemical substances. The substance or substances initially involved in a chemical reaction are called reactants. Chemical reactions are usually characterized by a chemical change, and they yield one or more products, which usually have properties different from the reactants. Classically, chemical reactions encompass changes that strictly involve the motion of electrons in the forming and breaking of chemical bonds, although the general concept of a chemical reaction, in particular the notion of a chemical equation, is applicable to transformations of elementary particles, as well as nuclear reactions. Different chemical reactions are used in combination in chemical synthesis in order to get a desired product. In biochemistry, series of chemical reactions catalyzed by enzymes form metabolic pathways, by which syntheses and decompositions ordinarily impossible in conditions within a cell are performed.

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Scientists visualize how bacteria talk to one another

Scientists visualize how bacteria talk to one another

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Using imaging mass spectrometry, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed tools that will enable scientists to visualize how different cell populations of cells communicate. Their ...


Computer predicts reactions between molecules and surfaces, with 'chemical precision'

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Good news for heterogeneous catalysis and the hydrogen economy: computers can now be used to make accurate predictions of the reactions of (hydrogen) molecules with surfaces. An international team of researchers, headed by ...


New Synthetic Molecules Trigger Immune Response to HIV and Prostate Cancer

New Synthetic Molecules Trigger Immune Response to HIV and Prostate Cancer

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Yale University have developed synthetic molecules capable of enhancing the body’s immune response to HIV and HIV-infected cells, as well as to prostate cancer cells. Their ...


How Size Matters For Catalysts: Study Links Size, Activity, Electronic Properties

How Size Matters For Catalysts: Study Links Size, Activity, Electronic Properties

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical ...


Hybrid molecules show promise for exploring, treating Alzheimer's

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

One of the many mysteries of Alzheimer's disease is how protein-like snippets called amyloid-beta peptides, which clump together to form plaques in the brain, may cause cell death, leading to the disease's devastating symptoms ...


Follow Rosetta's final Earth boost

Rosetta's final Earth boost

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ESA's comet chaser Rosetta will swing by Earth for the last time on 13 November to pick up energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ESA's European Space Operations ...


ISU researchers' findings bring hope for possible Parkinson’s disease cure

New findings bring hope for possible Parkinson's disease cure

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at Iowa State University have found an essential key to possibly cure Parkinson's disease and are looking for others.


Consumer advocates find BPA in food packaging

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A consumer advocacy group's analysis of canned goods has found measurable levels of the chemical additive bisphenol A across a range of foods, including some labeled "BPA-free."


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'Fear detector' being developed

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- British scientists are aiming to develop a device that can detect the smell of fear, and that could one day identify terrorists, drug smugglers, and other criminals.


Researchers design new strategy to find drugs to treat neglected infection

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using an unconventional approach that they designed, University of Pittsburgh drug discoverers and their collaborators at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have identified compounds that hold promise for treating leishmaniasis, ...


Where do nanomaterials go in the body?

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Tiny, engineered nanomaterials can already be found in many consumer products, and have been hailed as having widespread future uses in areas ranging from medicine to industrial processes. However, little is known about what ...


Porphyrin Dimers Increase Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Porphyrin Dimers Increase Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Porphyrins are most commonly thought of as the pigment in red blood cells, but now scientists have found that porphyrins can also be used to increase the efficiency of an inexpensive type ...


Eco-friendly metal coating replacement for chromate

Eco-friendly metal coating replacement for chromate

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO has developed a novel coating technology, "Quench Coat", to protect galvanised products from 'white rust' ? the form of zinc oxide that tarnishes freshly galvanised coatings, making ...


Gold Nanoparticles Delivery Platinum Warheads to Tumors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cisplatin is one of the most powerful and effective drugs for treating a wide variety of cancers, but serious side effects ultimately limit the drug's use and effectiveness. Now, however, researchers have ...


Widely used cholesterol-lowering drug may prevent progression

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Simvastatin, a commonly used, cholesterol-lowering drug, may prevent Parkinson's disease from progressing further. Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center conducted a study examining the use of the FDA-approved ...