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Latest chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 4, 2011 No comments

Novel nanosensor platform for direct detection of a cancer biomarker in blood - In a recent development, scientists in Spain have developed a rapid nanochannel-based immunoassay capable of the filtering and subsequent detection of proteins in whole blood without any …

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10 quick chemical hits: Slinn Pickings

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 23, 2011 No comments

Researchers Discover New Way to Design Metal Nanoparticle Catalysts - Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered a new strategy for fabricating metal nanoparticles in catalysts that promises to enhance the selectivity and yield for a wide range of structure-sensitive catalytic …

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Slinn Pickings - Chemistry News - Issue 50

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 23, 2011 No comments

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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A new batch of ten Slinn Pickings

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 16, 2011 No comments

Sterility in frogs caused by environmental pharmaceutical progestogens - Frogs appear to be very sensitive to progestogens, a kind of pharmaceutical that is released into the environment. Female tadpoles that swim in water containing a specific progestogen, levonorgestrel, are subject …

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Chemistry news as a ten pack: Slinn Pickings

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 14, 2011 No comments

U of Alberta researcher discovers potential cancer therapy target - One of the most important genes in the human genome is called p53 and its function is to suppress tumours, according to Roger Leng, a researcher in the Faculty of …

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Yet more chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 12, 2011 No comments

New method takes snapshots of proteins as they fold - Scientists have invented a way to ‘watch’ proteins fold — in less than thousandths of a second — into the elaborate twisted shapes that determine their function. LED products billed …

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