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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on April 21, 2011 Comments Off

Starting a new metabolic path: Researchers develop technique to help metabolic engineering – Efforts to engineer new metabolic pathways into microbes for the inexpensive production of valuable chemical products, such as biofuels or therapeutic drugs, should get a significant boost …

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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on April 19, 2011 Comments Off

Hydrocarbons in the deep Earth – A computer modeling study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that at deep Earth pressures and temperatures, longer hydrocarbons may be formed from the simplest one, the methane …

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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 30, 2011 Comments Off

Berkeley Lab Researchers Create Next-Generation Chemical Mapping on the Nanoscale – Berkeley Lab scientists at the Molecular Foundry have pioneered a new chemical mapping method that provides unprecedented insight into materials at the nanoscale. These new maps will guide researchers …

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More chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 9, 2011 Comments Off

Opalinus Clay as a potential host rock for nuclear waste repositories – Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU, Germany) have studied natural claystone in the laboratory for more than four years in order to determine how the radioactive elements …

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Slinn Pickings – chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 7, 2011 Comments Off

Zooming in on the weapons of Salmonella – Bacteria like salmonellae infect their host cells by needle-shaped extensions which they create in large numbers during an attack. A group of Vienna-based scientists headed by Thomas Marlovits employed recently developed methods …

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Latest chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 3, 2011 Comments Off

Sugarcane bioethanol: Environmental implications – An article in the current issue of Global Change Biology Bioenergy assessed the net greenhouse gas savings of bioethanol from sugarcane as compared to the use of fossil fuels. New growth inhibitors more effective in …

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