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Researchers image crucial anthrax protein

Researchers image crucial anthrax protein

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anthrax, long feared for its potential as a biological weapon, has lost some of its mystery. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration ...


Two-handed microbes point to new method for isolating harmful forms of chemicals

Microbes point to method for isolating harmful forms of drugs

Physics / Soft Matter

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at MIT and Brown University studying how marine bacteria move recently discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their left-handed ...


A new family of molecules for self-assembly: The carboranes

A New Family of Molecules for Self-Assembly: The Carboranes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- To be useful in real-world applications, a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of molecules on a surface must have a stable and controllable geometry. Researchers at Penn State and the Sigma-Aldrich ...





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Glutamine supplements show promise in treating stomach ulcers

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Nearly 20 years ago, it was discovered that bacteria known as Helicobacter pylori were responsible for stomach ulcers. Since then, antibiotics have become the primary therapy used to combat the H. pylori infection, which affects ...


Scientists invent first technique for producing promising anti-leukemia agent

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Kapakahines, marine-derived natural products isolated from a South Pacific sponge in trace quantities, have shown anti-leukemia potential, but studies have been all but stalled by kapakahines' lack of availability.


Can rectal vitamin E induce remission in patients with mild to moderate ulcerative colitis?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 31, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

It is believed that the generation of an exaggerated intestinal immune response to otherwise innocuous stimuli along with generation of oxygen free radicals plays a key role in the pathophysiology of UC. However, no disease-specific ...


Synthetic moleculues could add spice to fight against cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 20, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Turning up the heat on the red tomato during processing has the potential to give the popular garden staple added disease-fighting power, Ohio State University research suggests.


UK's organic cows are cream of the crop

Biology /

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

A new study by Newcastle University proves that organic farmers who let their cows graze as nature intended are producing better quality milk. The Nafferton Ecological Farming Group study found that grazing cows on organic ...


Chemists identify compounds to lure nutria, a rat-like pest ravaging Gulf Coast wetlands

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created Mar 06, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A 10-pound rodent pest called nutria ravaging southern wetlands in the US, which has been especially damaging to the marshland ecology in the Mississippi Delta following Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, may have finally met its ...


Isocitric acid from fermentation of sunflower oil -- a new building block for pharma?

Chemistry /

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The citric acid cycle, one of the most important metabolic processes in our bodies, was formulated in 1937. Since then, all of the intermediates have been produced in multigram quantities—with one exception, (2 R,3S)-isocitric ...


New method enables design, production of extremely novel drugs

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created Jan 23, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

A new chemical synthesis method based on a catalyst worth many times the price of gold and providing a far more efficient and economical method than traditional ones for designing and manufacturing extremely novel pharmaceutical ...


Researchers provide new information about mass spectrometry

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created Oct 15, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fresh data on mass spectrometry are presented in the report ‘Low-energy collision-induced fragmentation of negative ions derived from ortho-, meta-, and para-hydroxyphenyl carbaldehydes, ketones, and related compounds,’ produced ...


Researchers move closer to switching nuclear isomer decay on and off

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 06, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (43) | comments 0

Livermore researchers have moved one step closer to being able to turn on and off the decay of a nuclear isomer.



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