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#31
June 2003

From David Bradley Science Writer and
Advanced Chemistry Development

  Reactive Science News sciencebase science newsfeed

  Ammonia for the primordial brew  A newly discovered nitrogen-fixation reaction may have played a role in the emergence of life, according to German researchers.
  Nipping termites  Cats love catnip, but termites hate it, according to researchers speaking at the American Chemical Society meeting held in New Orleans during March.
  Tired of old tires  A more environmentally friendly car tire has been investigated by Dutch researchers.
  A honey of a cure Strains of lethal antibiotic-resistant bacteria that infect wounds could succumb to a sweet treatment - honey. The finding could lead to a treatment for serious infection.
 
Periodic Features

View our recent presentations online:
Recent Advances for ACD/Structure Elucidator by Brent Lefebvre
(PDF, 323 Kb).

All Good Things to Those Who Wait the Application of Automated Structure ElucidationTools to Solve a Structure after 10 Years of Effort by Kirill Blinov, Mikhail Elyashberg, Antony Williams, Gary Martin, Chad Hadden, Dave Russell (PDF, 400 Kb).

Web-based Virtual Repository of Chromatographic and Spectral Analytical Data by Jorge Manrique, Daria Jouravleva (PDF, 1458 Kb).
 
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