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

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 ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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

Lab-on-a-Chip Performs 1,000 Chemical Reactions At Once

Flasks, beakers, and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in medicinal chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a benchtop, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly run thousands ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0




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New molecule has potential to help treat genetic diseases and HIV

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have created a molecule that's so good at tangling itself inside the double helix of a DNA sequence that it can stay there for up to 16 days before ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 15 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Writing a new code for life?

On "Star Trek, the aliens often look so human that crew members fall in love with them. But in real life, scientists in the field known as astrobiology can't be sure alien life would even be carbon-based like us, or use DNA ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

WSU chemist applies Google software to webs of the molecular world

The technology that Google uses to analyze trillions of Web pages is being brought to bear on the way molecules are shaped and organized.

Chemistry / Other

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No entry without protein recycling: Researchers discover new coherence in enzyme transport

The group of Prof. Dr. Ralf Erdmann at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, discovered a connection of peroxisomal protein import and receptor export. In the Journal of Biological Chemistry, they disclo ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hydrogen from acidic water: Researchers develop potential low cost alternative to platinum for splitting water

A technique for creating a new molecule that structurally and chemically replicates the active part of the widely used industrial catalyst molybdenite has been developed by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

'Dark plasmons' transmit energy

Microscopic channels of gold nanoparticles have the ability to transmit electromagnetic energy that starts as light and propagates via "dark plasmons," according to researchers at Rice University.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research provides octagonal window of opportunity for carbon capture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Filtering carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from factory smokestacks is a necessary, but expensive part of many manufacturing processes. However, a collaborative research team from the National ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Copper + love chemical = big sulfur stink

When Hiroaki Matsunami, Ph.D., at Duke set out to study a chemical in male mouse urine called MTMT that attracts female mice, he didn't think he would stumble into a new field of study.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

As strong as an insect's shell

Harvard researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have come up with a tough, low-cost, biodegradable material inspired by insects’ hard outer shells. The material’s ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Making nature's best better to produce biofuels

If a tree falls in the forest and there are no enzymes to digest it, does it break down?

Biology / Biotechnology

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