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Researchers describe 'implausible' chemistry that produces herbicidal compound

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A soil microbe that uses chemical warfare to fight off competitors employs an unusual chemical pathway in the manufacture of its arsenal, researchers report, making use of an enzyme that can do what no other enzyme is known ...





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Clues to our birth may be written in space

Space & Earth /

created Jan 22, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Extraterrestrial molecules found in meteorites may hold the key to the origin of life on Earth, according to chemistry research at the University of Leeds. Dr Terence Kee and a team from Leeds and Bradford universities are ...


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New way to make malaria medicine also first step in finding new antibiotics

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created Sep 26, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

University of Illinois microbiology professor William Metcalf and his collaborators have developed a way to mass-produce an antimalarial compound, potentially making the treatment of malaria less expensive.


Mystery solved: Marine microbe is source of rare nutrient

Mystery Solved: Marine Microbe Is Source of Rare Nutrient

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of microscopic marine microbes, called phytoplankton, by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of South Carolina has solved a ten-year-old ...



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