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Researchers discover new way to attack some forms of leukemia General Science / Chemistry October 28, 2008 \| User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 Each year, some 29,000 adults and 2,000 children are diagnosed with leukemia, a form of cancer that is caused by the abnormal production of white blood cells in the bone marrow. Current treatments rely primarily on killing ...

Researchers find new chemical key that could unlock hundreds of new antibiotics General Science / Chemistry October 29, 2008 \| User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- Chemistry researchers at The University of Warwick and the John Innes Centre, have found a novel signalling molecule that could be a key that will open up hundreds of new antibiotics unlocking them from the ...

New method provides panoramic view of protein-RNA interactions in living cells General Science / Chemistry November 02, 2008 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 DNA, it has turned out, isn't all it was cracked up to be. In recent years we learned that the molecule of life, the discovery of the 20th century, did not -- could not -- by itself explain the huge differences in complexity ...

Chemists Devise Devises Self Assembling 'Organic Wire' General Science / Chemistry October 23, 2008 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 (PhysOrg.com) -- From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient's body can't discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed ...

Sniffing Out a Better Chemical Sensor General Science / Chemistry October 29, 2008 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- Marrying a sensitive detector technology capable of distinguishing hundreds of different chemical compounds with a pattern-recognition module that mimics the way animals recognize odors, researchers ...

Mini-laboratory gets megaproductive General Science / Chemistry October 31, 2008 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- Dawid Zalewski of the University of Twente, Netherlands, has developed a mini-laboratory on a chip that can purify biological mixtures continuously. This is very different from the usual method ...

Scientists unwrap the elements of life General Science / Chemistry October 22, 2008 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s) \| No comments yet Researchers at Newcastle University have taken a step forward in our understanding of how the fundamental building blocks of life are put together.

Women have more diverse hand bacteria than men General Science / Chemistry November 03, 2008 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s) \| User comments: 4 A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates that not only do human hands harbor far higher numbers of bacteria species than previously believed, women have a significantly greater diversity of microbes on their ...

Scientists invent device that controls, measures dynamics of chemicals in live tissue General Science / Chemistry October 27, 2008 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s) \| No comments yet Measuring an electrical current in an organism is pretty straightforward. All you need is an electrode. Measuring the flow of chemicals in cells or live tissue, however, is much more difficult because the ...

21st Century detective work reveals how ancient rock got off to a hot start General Science / Chemistry November 06, 2008 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- A new X-ray technique has enabled scientists to "play detective" and solve the debate about the origins of a three-billion-year-old rock fragment.

Quintet of proteins forms new, early-warning blood test before heart attack strikes General Science / Chemistry November 09, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s) \| No comments yet A team of Johns Hopkins biochemists has identified a mixed bag of five key proteins out of thousands secreted into blood draining from the heart's blood vessels that may together or in certain quantities form the basis of ...

Soapy property improves electron mobility in organic semiconductors General Science / Chemistry October 28, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- Organic semiconductors are a main component in a variety of future organic electronics, such as flexible flat-panel displays, inexpensive solar cells, and other unique devices. Because of ...

Garlic chemical tablet treats diabetes I and II orally General Science / Chemistry November 19, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 26 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- A drug based on a chemical found in garlic can treat diabetes types I and II when taken as a tablet, a study in the new Royal Society of Chemistry journal Metallomics says.

World's smallest hand-held instrument for detecting health and safety threats General Science / Chemistry October 27, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s) \| No comments yet Researchers in Indiana are describing development of the world's smallest complete mass spectrometer (MS), a miniature version of a standard lab device — some of which would dominate a living room — to identify ...

Gaps in Adhesion General Science / Chemistry November 17, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists can learn from some shellfish. Mussels, for example, produce an adhesive that sticks strongly to metal and stone, even under water. Chemists have reproduced the protein responsible ...

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Researchers discover new way to attack some forms of leukemia General Science / Chemistry October 28, 2008 \| User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 Each year, some 29,000 adults and 2,000 children are diagnosed with leukemia, a form of cancer that is caused by the abnormal production of white blood cells in the bone marrow. Current treatments rely primarily on killing ...

Researchers find new chemical key that could unlock hundreds of new antibiotics General Science / Chemistry October 29, 2008 \| User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- Chemistry researchers at The University of Warwick and the John Innes Centre, have found a novel signalling molecule that could be a key that will open up hundreds of new antibiotics unlocking them from the ...

New method provides panoramic view of protein-RNA interactions in living cells General Science / Chemistry November 02, 2008 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 DNA, it has turned out, isn't all it was cracked up to be. In recent years we learned that the molecule of life, the discovery of the 20th century, did not -- could not -- by itself explain the huge differences in complexity ...

Chemists Devise Devises Self Assembling 'Organic Wire' General Science / Chemistry October 23, 2008 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 (PhysOrg.com) -- From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient's body can't discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed ...

Sniffing Out a Better Chemical Sensor General Science / Chemistry October 29, 2008 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- Marrying a sensitive detector technology capable of distinguishing hundreds of different chemical compounds with a pattern-recognition module that mimics the way animals recognize odors, researchers ...

Mini-laboratory gets megaproductive General Science / Chemistry October 31, 2008 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- Dawid Zalewski of the University of Twente, Netherlands, has developed a mini-laboratory on a chip that can purify biological mixtures continuously. This is very different from the usual method ...

Scientists unwrap the elements of life General Science / Chemistry October 22, 2008 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s) \| No comments yet Researchers at Newcastle University have taken a step forward in our understanding of how the fundamental building blocks of life are put together.

Women have more diverse hand bacteria than men General Science / Chemistry November 03, 2008 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s) \| User comments: 4 A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates that not only do human hands harbor far higher numbers of bacteria species than previously believed, women have a significantly greater diversity of microbes on their ...

Scientists invent device that controls, measures dynamics of chemicals in live tissue General Science / Chemistry October 27, 2008 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s) \| No comments yet Measuring an electrical current in an organism is pretty straightforward. All you need is an electrode. Measuring the flow of chemicals in cells or live tissue, however, is much more difficult because the ...

21st Century detective work reveals how ancient rock got off to a hot start General Science / Chemistry November 06, 2008 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- A new X-ray technique has enabled scientists to "play detective" and solve the debate about the origins of a three-billion-year-old rock fragment.

Quintet of proteins forms new, early-warning blood test before heart attack strikes General Science / Chemistry November 09, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s) \| No comments yet A team of Johns Hopkins biochemists has identified a mixed bag of five key proteins out of thousands secreted into blood draining from the heart's blood vessels that may together or in certain quantities form the basis of ...

Soapy property improves electron mobility in organic semiconductors General Science / Chemistry October 28, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- Organic semiconductors are a main component in a variety of future organic electronics, such as flexible flat-panel displays, inexpensive solar cells, and other unique devices. Because of ...

Garlic chemical tablet treats diabetes I and II orally General Science / Chemistry November 19, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 26 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- A drug based on a chemical found in garlic can treat diabetes types I and II when taken as a tablet, a study in the new Royal Society of Chemistry journal Metallomics says.

World's smallest hand-held instrument for detecting health and safety threats General Science / Chemistry October 27, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s) \| No comments yet Researchers in Indiana are describing development of the world's smallest complete mass spectrometer (MS), a miniature version of a standard lab device — some of which would dominate a living room — to identify ...

Gaps in Adhesion General Science / Chemistry November 17, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists can learn from some shellfish. Mussels, for example, produce an adhesive that sticks strongly to metal and stone, even under water. Chemists have reproduced the protein responsible ...

Researchers discover new way to attack some forms of leukemia

Researchers find new chemical key that could unlock hundreds of new antibiotics

New method provides panoramic view of protein-RNA interactions in living cells

Chemists Devise Devises Self Assembling 'Organic Wire'

Sniffing Out a Better Chemical Sensor

Mini-laboratory gets megaproductive

Scientists unwrap the elements of life

Women have more diverse hand bacteria than men

Scientists invent device that controls, measures dynamics of chemicals in live tissue

21st Century detective work reveals how ancient rock got off to a hot start

Quintet of proteins forms new, early-warning blood test before heart attack strikes

Soapy property improves electron mobility in organic semiconductors

Garlic chemical tablet treats diabetes I and II orally

World's smallest hand-held instrument for detecting health and safety threats

Gaps in Adhesion

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