All articles by Andy Extance – Page 20
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Chemical transport defines ‘Goldilocks’ cell size
Too big and macromolecules like proteins and DNA have to travel too far, too small and they’re too crowded
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Time slicing captures molecular birth pictures
Reaction-timescale x-ray images of I2 formation push instrumental and interpretation boundaries
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Insulator pile shows solar potential
LaVO3/SrTiO3 system promises to bring better electron-hole separation and native electrodes to photovoltaics
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FeaturePhenome Centre goes for gold
Andy Extance finds out how British researchers are turning Olympic anti-doping facilities into a world-leading facility to understand the links between metabolism, chemicals and health
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Enzyme draws nanopore protein sequencing nearer
Californian team hope changes in current as unfoldase drags proteins through a pore could identify individual amino acids
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BusinessIndia pushes for emergency drug licences
Government looks set to force licensing of three patented cancer drugs
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Crystals aim to light up dark matter
Scaling calcium tungstate detector up to 500kg will improve chances of finding Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs)
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NewsPhenome centre move ends GSK role
‘Olympic legacy’ centre to shift to dedicated Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital facility
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FeatureOvercoming small obstacles
Fabrication methods combining printing and lithography have proven fertile. Andy Extance now asks how successful will they be outside the lab
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Chemists cull compounds using ‘intuition’
Medicinal chemists apparently decided which fragments should be in their screening collection using surprisingly few parameters
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Molecular muscle machines bulk up
Iron co-ordination wrestles daisy-chain rotaxane molecular machines into a muscle-mimicking polymer
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RNA teams up to beat selfish rivals
Ribozymes that cooperate outdo autocatalytic rivals, supporting the idea that life evolved from an ‘RNA world’
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Perovskite posits answer to xenon riddle
The surprising noble gas ratio in the Earth's atmosphere could be explain by the solubility of these gases in magma during the planet's formation
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Silicon sliver implants melt away
Transfer printing silicon and magnesium onto silk makes water-soluble 64-pixel camera and anti-bacterial heater, heralding ‘transient’ medical devices
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NewsUK university lab shut after student poisoning
Police and safety body investigate as University of Southampton PhD student exposed to thallium and arsenic falls ill
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Sweaty buildings cool themselves
Keeping buildings cool with hydrogels, while cutting carbon emissions is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration
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Inert nanoshells succumb to iron will
Doping hollow silica nanoshells with iron could make them biodegradable and therefore safer for medical applications like real-time tumour imaging
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Cells step toward plugless charging
Piezoelectric power packs that could self-charge as you walk on them skip usual first electricity generation stage
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Carbon clusters score lucky seven
Teaming up with titanium is predicted to deliver stable seven-coordinate carbon dication, larger than any seen in the lab
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‘Spider threads’ bring great self-healing power
Mimicking silk protein’s stimuli responsiveness not only brings millimetre-scale cracks together, it also successfully recreates its legendary toughness