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Slinn Pickings – chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on June 11, 2011 Comments Off

UW-Madison chemists devise better way to prepare workhorse molecules – Writing in the current online issue (June 9) of the journal Science, a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry Professor Shannon Stahl reports a new, environmentally friendly way to …

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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on May 31, 2011 Comments Off

Team solves decades-old molecular mystery linked to blood clotting – Researchers report that they are the first to describe in atomic detail a chemical interaction that is vital to blood clotting. Hard x-rays to watch chemical reactions – Chemists can …

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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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10 chemical picks

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 27, 2011 Comments Off

Erlotinib effective and with fewer side-effects after first-line treatment – The targeted cancer drug erlotinib has comparable efficacy to chemotherapy, and is better tolerated, in hard-to-treat cases where a patient's cancer has progressed quickly after treatment with first-line therapy, the …

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Slinn Pickings – Chemistry News – Issue 50

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 23, 2011 Comments Off

Cardiff study suggests targeted treatment for leukaemia group – Antibody-directed chemotherapy offers improved survival to particular sub-groups of leukaemia sufferers, a Cardiff University-led study has found. The findings suggest that the treatment may be effective for the majority of younger …

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