News tagged with chloride ion

Chemists devise a way to create a five point knotted molecule

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists have for a long time been interested in a type of molecule that is literally tied up into a knot. This is where atoms are bonded together to form strands, which are then twisted around ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

The interplay of dancing electrons

Negative ions play an important role in everything from how our bodies function to the structure of the universe. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now developed a new method that makes it possible ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

First quantitative measure of radiation leaked from Fukushima reactor

Atmospheric chemists at the University of California, San Diego, report the first quantitative measurement of the amount of radiation leaked from the damaged nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Japan, following the devastating ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Pig model of cystic fibrosis improves understanding of disease

It's been more than 20 years since scientists first discovered the gene that causes cystic fibrosis (CF), yet questions about how the mutated gene causes disease remain unanswered.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cystic fibrosis gene typo is a double whammy

An imbalance of salt and water in patients with cystic fibrosis makes their lungs clog up with sticky mucus that is prone to infection. The cause of the offending imbalance is a well-known genetic error, one that blocks the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

One step closer to a drug treatment for cystic fibrosis

A University of Missouri researcher believes his latest work moves scientists closer to a cure for cystic fibrosis, one of the world's most common fatal genetic diseases.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Channeling efforts to fight cystic fibrosis

The lab of Kevin Foskett, PhD, the Isaac Ott Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has found a possible new target for fighting cystic fibrosis (CF) that could compensate ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists observe single ions moving through tiny carbon-nanotube channel

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a team of MIT chemical engineers has observed single ions marching through a tiny carbon-nanotube channel. Such channels could be used as extremely sensitive detectors ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Chemists develop new 'light switch' chloride binder

Chemists at Indiana University Bloomington have designed a molecule that binds chloride ions -- but can be conveniently compelled to release the ions in the presence of ultraviolet light.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify a fundamental process in lysosomal function and protein degradation

The degradation of proteins and other macromolecules in cells is vital to survival. Disruption of this process can result in serious disease. The research group of Professor Thomas Jentsch (Leibniz Institute for Molecular ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lithium to be extracted from geothermal waste

(PhysOrg.com) -- A technique developed by a Californian company, Simbol Mining, will enable the valuable mineral lithium, widely used in high-density batteries, to be reclaimed from the hot waste water produced ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 4 weblog

New technology cleans up Visalia Superfund 100 years ahead of schedule

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's technology was instrumental in cleaning up Southern California Edison's Visalia Pole Yard, which is scheduled to be taken off the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list this ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New study explains some mysteries of neonatal seizures

A study led by MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) investigators is providing new insight into the mechanism of neonatal seizures, which have features very different from seizures in older children and adults. In their ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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

Hot and Cold Moves of Cyanide and Water

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long known that molecules dance about as the temperature rises, but now researchers know the exact steps that water takes with a certain molecule. Results with small, electrically ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Hot and cold moves of cyanide and water

Scientists have long known that molecules dance about as the temperature rises, but now researchers know the exact steps that water takes with a certain molecule. Results with small, electrically charged cyanide ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1