Periodic Blasphemy

Marketing expert Rick Liebling sketched a Periodic Table of Social Media Elements, which is garnering a lot of interest in the blogosphere. In it, Liebling gives each elemental square an abbreviation representing a particular well-known face on Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Facebook etc.
Social Media really is a lot like chemistry. There is a huge pool of [...]

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Post by David Bradley Science Writer. You can get in touch with David via email or check out his CV on the Sciencebase.com site.

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History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose.
 - Thomas Jefferson

Seventy five in ten years

After ten years and seventy five issues, it’s time for a change at Reactive Reports. The archives are now hosted by David Bradley who thanks ACD/Labs, for a decade of support. With special thanks to Tony Williams for initially taking on my idea of a chemistry webzine at a time when such entities were rare. [...]

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Post by David Bradley Science Writer. You can get in touch with David via email or check out his CV on the Sciencebase.com site.

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My mind shall not be disturbed; no angry word shall escape my lips; I will remain kind and friendly, with loving thoughts and no secret spite.
 - Siddhartha Gautama

Urine clues for prostate cancer

A biomarker for prostate cancer has been identified in urine. Details of the molecule sarcosine is published later this week in the journal Nature.
Arul Chinnaiyan and colleagues profiled the metabolites present in the urine of prostate cancer patients compared and compared it to those of healthy individuals. They found that sarcosine – a derivative of [...]

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This post originally appeared in full in David Bradley's ChemSpider.com hosted Spinneret blog (geddit?). Hopefully, any molecular structures and links are hooking up to the Chemspider database correctly, please let us know if you have problems with mol files, InChI code etc

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Make me immortal with a kiss.
 - Christopher Marlowe