News tagged with synthetic chemistry
Researchers demonstrate reversible generation of a high capacity hydrogen storage material
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory have created a reversible route to generate aluminum hydride, a high capacity hydrogen storage material. This achievement is not only expected ...
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Clicking synthetic and biological molecules together
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Dutch researcher Joost Opsteen has developed a method to click polymers together in a controlled manner. Using this method, he can even attach proteins to nanoballs. For instance, this approach could be used to transport ...
Synthetic HDL: A new weapon to fight cholesterol problems
Jan 09, 2009 |
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Buttery Christmas cookies, eggnog, juicy beef roast, rich gravy and creamy New York-style cheesecake. Happy holiday food unfortunately can send blood cholesterol levels sky high.
Technology monitors myriad molecules
May 07, 2007 |
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A U.S. scientist has created a computer chip consisting of thousands of electrodes yielding molecules that bind to receptor sites.
Sustainable fertilizer: Urine and wood ash produce large harvest
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Results of the first study evaluating the use of human urine mixed with wood ash as a fertilizer for food crops has found that the combination can be substituted for costly synthetic fertilizers to produce ...
Scientists build a better DNA molecule
Biology /
May 27, 2008 |
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Building faultless objects from faulty components may seem like alchemy. Yet scientists from the Weizmann Institute’s Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, and Biological Chemistry Departments have achieved just that, ...
Synthetic biology yields clues to evolution and the origin of life
Biology /
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Researchers in the field of synthetic biology are still a long way from being able to assemble living cells from scratch in the laboratory. But according to biochemist David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...
Wine in a box? Think 'good' not 'gauche'
Jun 04, 2009 |
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In a surprise discovery that may help boxed wine shake off its image as a gauche alternative to bottles, scientists in Canada are reporting that multilayer aseptic cartons (a.k.a. ‘boxes’) may help reduce ...
Synthetic molecules emulate enzyme behavior for the first time
Jul 02, 2008 |
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When chemists want to produce a lot of a substance -- such as a newly designed drug -- they often turn to catalysts, molecules that speed chemical reactions. Many jobs require highly specialized catalysts, and finding one ...
Synthetic Capsules Made of Natural Building Blocks
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The basis of all life forms are vesicles: membrane-enclosed, liquid-filled “bubbles” made of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates. Cells, which are separated from the surrounding medium by their cell membrane, ...
Scientists Discover New Way of Selectively Killing Cancer Cells
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Mar 26, 2008 |
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A Columbia University professor has discovered a chemical mechanism that can selectively kill cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed. Brent R. Stockwell, an associate professor in the department ...
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