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New catalysts promise faster, cleaner and more efficient research platform
Nov 16, 2008 |
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A new class of exceptionally effective catalysts that promote the powerful olefin metathesis reaction has been discovered by a team of Boston College and MIT scientists, opening up a vast new scientific platform ...
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Genome Engineering Could Provide New Method of Creating Diesel
Nov 16, 2009 |
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When we think of genetic engineering, our minds often jump to giant tomatoes and animal cloning. However, this is not always the case.
Researchers reshape the future of drug discovery
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Scientists in Leeds have devised a new way to create the next generation of man-made molecules in a breakthrough that could revolutionise drug development.
Nano-boric acid makes motor oil more slippery
Aug 06, 2007 |
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One key to saving the environment, improving our economy and reducing our dependence on foreign oil might just be sitting in your mother's medicine cabinet.
Coming Soon: Protein Synthesis Without Amino Acids?
Jul 19, 2007 |
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Usually, the synthesis of short protein chains (polypeptides) begins with the production of their components, the amino acids. But it can be done differently: In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Chinese researchers report a ...
Technique monitors thousands of molecules simultaneously
May 01, 2007 |
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A chemist at Washington University in St. Louis is making molecules the new-fashioned way — selectively harnessing thousands of minuscule electrodes on a tiny computer chip that do chemical reactions and yield ...
Chemists make superstar reaction more accessible
Jul 12, 2006 |
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If a chemical reaction can enjoy superstar status, then the process known as metathesis just might qualify. The reaction, involving a swap of atom groups that has been compared to changing partners in a square dance, made ...
Coal-to-diesel breakthrough could drastically cut oil imports
Apr 13, 2006 |
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Professor Alan Goldman and his Rutgers team in collaboration with researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a way to convert carbon sources, such as coal to diesel fuel. This important ...
Frenchman, two Americans win 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Oct 05, 2005 |
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2005 jointly to Yves Chauvin (Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France), Robert H. Grubbs (California I ...
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