Reactive Chemistry Blog

Eight chemists share their vision of chemistry in the inaugural issue of Nature Chemistry is published today.
Nobel Laureate Ryoji Noyori considers how chemical synthesis should develop so that chemists might tackle global problems. Harry Gray outlines plans for making solar power viable, while Jim Clark discusses the green chemistry revolution.
Barbara Imperiali highlights how chemistry allows [...]

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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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It’s not the acidity of cranberry juice that prevent urinary track infections and cystitis, it’s natural chemicals in the tarty juice that prevent pathogenic bacteria from adhering to the cells that line the urinary tract. That’s according to research in the Journal of Medicinal Food.
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) cost $2b annually in the US and [...]

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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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Just over a year ago I covered the possibility of using the Sony Playstation PS3 console, with its powerful Cell chip composed of a CPU and eight slave processors running Linux to do drug design. Now, Orr Ravitz of Canadian company SimBioSys tells me work is moving on apace in this area.
“We just released the [...]

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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.

If you're lucky, the following quote may be relevant in some way to the post above, but then again...